Real Estate

The usual way this choice gets framed is finish against character, or warranty against maturity. New means nothing to fix and nothing grown in yet. Resale means established gardens, known neighbors and somebody else’s taste in bathrooms. All true, and all of it is the part you can see on a viewing. There is a

Buying pre-construction means committing to something that does not exist yet, on a contract written entirely by the person selling it to you. That is not an argument against it. A great deal of new inventory in Los Cabos is sold this way, and buying early is how some buyers secure a unit or a

If you have bought a home in the United States or Canada, you had someone on your side at closing. A real estate attorney, or a title company acting under rules written to protect you. In Mexico you will meet a notario público instead, and you will be told, correctly, that the notario is a

It is easy to assume the acquisition tax on a Los Cabos purchase is a percentage of the purchase price. It is a reasonable assumption and it is not what the law says. The municipal revenue law sets the tax base at Article 37 as the highest of three different figures, and the price you

If you are buying property in Los Cabos as a foreign national, you will almost certainly hold it through a fideicomiso: a trust in which a Mexican bank holds the title and you hold the rights to use, rent, renovate and sell the property. It is a normal, well established route, and it is not

Search for closing costs in Los Cabos and you will find several different answers, several percentage points apart, quoted with equal confidence on sites that all look reputable. When we put this question to four AI assistants across twelve runs, the pages they cited published totals ranging from 4 to 15 percent of the purchase