Zapopan, Guadalajara real estate: properties for sale

This is Zapopan, the municipality of a million and a half people that forms the western half of metropolitan Guadalajara, three hundred and thirty kilometres and three to three and a half hours from the bay on the new highway, and the MLS carries it because Vallarta brokers list there. There is no beach and no marina. The two communities on the feed are opposites. Monraz is the dense, walkable colonia inside the Periférico next to the Andares luxury mall and the restaurant row of Juan Palomar y Arias, mid-rise and tower condos, the address people compare to Guadalajara's Colonia Americana. La Primavera is the residential colonia and the gated golf communities of El Cielo and Villa El Cielo on the edge of the thirty-thousand-hectare Bosque La Primavera, houses on fairways and forest lots. Puerta de Hierro, Andares and the historic centre around the Basílica de Zapopan are the neighbouring names buyers hear.

Buyers are urban second-home owners, Guadalajara families and investors in condos for the professional rental market around Andares and the Puerta de Hierro hospitals.

Practical points. Guadalajara's airport is about twenty kilometres and thirty minutes south via the Periférico. Line 3 of the light rail links downtown Zapopan to downtown Guadalajara. Hospital Puerta de Hierro is in Andares. Walkability is very high in Monraz and Andares and low in the gated golf colonias. Zapopan is outside the restricted coastal zone, so a foreign buyer can hold title directly without a fideicomiso.

— John Forget, Mexico Life Realty