Legal Resources for Foreign Buyers

Quintana Roo publishes a public list of developments being sold without state authorization. How to search it, read an entry, and act if your project is on it.

The Legal Front™ Membership is now live: an annual legal retainer that puts a written Legal Health Check on your Mexican property every year.

You can file a PROFECO complaint yourself. This is the procedure foreign buyers actually face: which filing to use, what documents you need, and where files fail.

Residency alone will not exempt your Mexican property sale from ISR. What actually unlocks the casa habitación exemption, the 700,000 UDI cap, and the option most sellers miss.

The developer names the administrator, sets the fees, and writes the budget. Yucatán and Quintana Roo condominium law give owners specific tools to take that back.

Foreign buyers in Mexico usually read their purchase contract closely only after the dispute starts. A contract review before signing is the cheaper, stronger move.

You own a home in Mexico through a bank trust but no Mexican will. Here is what your heirs actually face, and how an estate plan for foreign owners fixes it.

A PROFECO dictamen quantifies what a stalled Mexican developer owes you, the refund plus a legal bonification of twenty to thirty percent, as an enforceable title.

Foreign buyers who signed for a Tulum presale and watched the developer miss deadline after deadline do not have to fight alone. Here is how a group complaint works.

Our purpose is to defend foreign buyers in the Riviera Maya. That defense is not against Mexico. It is how a market tilted toward developers starts to rebalance.

You paid a developer in the Riviera Maya, the project slipped, and now you must negotiate. Five lessons from a Harvard negotiation program on doing it from strength.

A stalled deal with a Riviera Maya developer rarely starts in court. Here is the three-stage approach we use to resolve it, and why our partner trained in mediation at Harvard.