BestFSBOGuide.com team
Diego Herrera
Mexico contributor
Covers Mexico's private-sale process from primary sources: the role of the state-appointed notario publico in producing the escritura publica, collecting taxes, and filing with the Registro Publico de la Propiedad. Tracks the ISR primary-residence exemption and its conditions, and the documents and avaluo a closing requires.
In Mexico, no sale is final until a state-appointed notario publico turns the transfer into an escritura publica, collects the taxes, and files the deed with the Registro Publico de la Propiedad. Much of the advice online either skips the tax side or buries it, so this desk stays concrete about the documents a notario will actually ask for and about what the ISR primary-residence exemption requires once you read past the headline. The 700,000 UDI threshold and the three-year rule are both easy to get wrong.
Timing is the first hurdle a private seller hits. A sale commonly stalls for weeks when the avaluo is not ordered until the notario requests it, and that kind of avoidable delay is the sort of thing this coverage tries to head off. It spells out what the Registro Publico de la Propiedad confirms and what it does not, how to read a certificado de libertad de gravamen before listing, and where owners tend to lose days in the escrituracion process.
State variation gets flagged rather than smoothed over. When a rule shifts from one state to the next, the guidance on BestFSBOGuide.com says as much instead of treating one state’s process as the national one.
Areas of focus
- Tracks SAT and state registry rule changes as they affect private sellers
- Follows the ISR exemption conditions, the 700,000 UDI threshold, and the three-year rule
- Monitors how the escrituracion process and required documents vary by state
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