Established Oceanview Permaculture in Paradise (Mexico)!

Greetings fellow Permutated Beings! My wife Holly and I are selling our Permaculture dream on the Pacific Coast of Mexico. For a dozen years we have worked at creating a true paradise on earth, and have had an incredible run hosting Natural Building, Permaculture, and Plant Medicine retreats, raising animals, and truly "living the life" (read: The Mexico Diaries: A Sustainable Adventure” available on Amazon/Kindle), but now, ambling toward our 70's, we are looking foward to the next phase that is closer to city friends and attractions, medical services, etc.

On offer is a 45 acre spread with significant infrastructure located just 300 yards from one of the most pristine, swimmable beaches anywhere. This property would be ideally suited to a group looking to form an Eco-village, or for anyone interested in creating their own private abundance with significant eco-tourism income potential.

This amazing property features numerous, buildable ocean vistas and established guest facilities ideally suited for further development as a world-class yoga retreat or education center. Perched high on a west facing hill is a gorgeous, “hippi-lux” cob house with dipping pool and spectacular sunset views, plus caretaker/guest cottage, and basic facilities for goats, chickens, ducks, horses, etc. The entire property is fenced and has been used for free-ranging our goats for many years.

In addition to the main beach, the property is also a short walk from a smaller, hidden beach, a turtle research station, and a quintessential Mexican fishing village. This incomparable opportunity is fully titled, and has municipal water & grid-tied electric, existing roadways, a one-acre tropical food forest, kitchen gardens, two hundred moringa trees, approximately fifty coco, mango and banana tress, a traditional Temezcal sweat lodge, and significant additional infrastructure such as a community building with bathrooms, bio-digester, storage bodegas, and outdoor kitchen dining facilities capable of hosting 25 or more people.

As I’ve written about at my WordPress blog “Sustainable Mexico”, there are many significant advantages to pursuing sustainability south of the US border (“the fun side of the wall!”), including ridiculously low property taxes (we pay $250US a year!), year-round sunshine for producing solar and growing food, inexpensive hired help, extremely relaxed business licensing, easy building permitting, no building codes, and no heating/cooling needs other than fans in summer. It is also an easy draw for attracting volunteer help, and is just two hours away from numerous, vibrant farmer’s markets, and an international airport, in Puerto Vallarta.

Finally, we have a second, abutting, fifty-five acre parcel, with a modest sized adobe house.  Our intention is to remain in the Puerto Vallarta area and return to the second parcel to visit occasionally. We would enjoy maintaining an affiliation with whatever project follows, but that is not a condition of the sale. The listing price is 2.9 million US, however we will discount, and possibly provide partial financing, for a buyer that is planning to continue our vision of wholistic land management, and being of service to the local community.

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Hello, please email more info. thanks

Hola  Daniel!

Wow!! You’re place really does sound like paradise, and super in alignment with what we are looking for My husband Johnny and our two young kiddos (1.5 and 4) are looking for a sustainable farming opportunity, where we can tend the land, connect to culture and community and teach our children these ways.

I am an acupuncturist and studying to be a home birth midwife, so I still need to figure out if I could pursue my medical profession in Mexico. My husband grew up on a farm and has a green thumb and passion for homesteading.  

Is there any chance you may be open to us staying / renting / caretaking your property for a few months this winter with the intention of buying if we fall in love with it all?

Are there any other water sources on land, like creek? How is the municipal water? May you share what town you are in? We are surfers, are there any waves nearby?  What kind of fruit trees / edibles are there? We love moringa !!

Thank you kindly,
Hilly Shue and family

Hillm711@gmail.com
Seaside, OR USA

Aloha. Is this property still available?
Thanks
Logan

Is this still available? I would love more info....

Hi is this still available?

Looks like perhaps another one post wonder like so many in the real estate forum. Unless the OP can update?  Anyhoo, I’ve heard several times that non-citizens cannot own property near the coast in Mexico?! Is this a lease? Is the OP a citizen? Or? Perhaps my memory is faulty and it was Panama that only rents out coastal property to non-citizens? This coastal finca in Mexico sounds wonderful on the surface but perhaps have a trustworthy lawyer review every detail. We have the resources for a tropical place but have similar concerns about medical, ownership, legal status, security, etc. I’d move to the tropics in a heartbeat and take my chances but my partner doesn’t want to take the chances. Anyhoo, thanks for a pipe dream description and best wishes whatever it is.
I’d like to go to Mexico and visit a bunch of permaculture sites to see for myself. The internet doesn’t do it just is. Ive only been to Baja. I heard a interview with a farmer in S. Mexico who quit his job as a University professor in Los Angeles to farm in S. Mexico. He did say it was the best decision of his life. It stuck with me almost 25 years later. Ive heard S. Mexico is nice.

Jeremy Baker wrote:Anyhoo, I’ve heard several times that non-citizens cannot own property near the coast in Mexico?! Is this a lease? Is the OP a citizen? Or?

To my knowledge Jeremy you are correct. I’m looking into temporary residency in Mexico in the next year and then one can renew that for 4 years and apply for permanent residency and then dual citizenship if an American wishes. I usually just go with a 6 mo tourist Visa but I believe those could change in the near future with “that thing that’s going around: TTTGA.”

I know some permanent residents who are ‘buying’ near the beach in Baja and they have a very knowledgeable real estate agent and lawyers but I haven’t read their contract… I’ve read it’s a 99 year lease and you cannot pass it on to family like you could property in your own country.

From what I read, to get even temporary residency one needs to show a large sum of $ in the bank or monthly income of $1700+ (reasons I haven’t been able to consider it.

There are ways around it like marry a Mexican or get pregnant and have the baby in Mexico… those weren’t options that presented themselves to me when I was there.

MEXIT is a big thing though! There are many aspects I loved about living in the pueblos of parts of Mexico.

May we each find our landing place for our next season.

Dan's wife Holly is (was?) in a Facebook group I'm in. I believe they finally sold their place.
As for foreign ownership, while it's a complicated process, you can get a 99-year lease from a "trust" or set up a Mexican corporation to own it. Mexico had two right-wing pro-private ownership presidents in 2000 and 2006 who loosened the laws on that a bit. Lots of people do it. But life at the beach can be a drag for months on end--it's hot, it's humid, there are hurricanes, etc. They are plenty of lovely places in Mexico well out of the restricted zones where foreigners can buy land, most with better climates. But you should always have a reason to live in a place, a purpose for being in that specific place and not somewhere else. Otherwise, you will become disillusioned with it sooner rather than later.

Edited to add, if you want to be 100% certain I checked and I have their business email  Ranchosolymar at gmail dot com

Melissa Ferrin wrote: But you should always have a reason to live in a place, a purpose for being in that specific place and not somewhere else. Otherwise, you will become disillusioned with it sooner rather than later.

I wholeheartedly agree!