Pacific Boutique Properties focuses on the luxury sales and rental markets on the Pacific coast of Mexico.

With a large number of professional real estate brokers now operating in the rapidly expanding Puerto Vallarta and surrounding marketplace, Pacific Boutique Properties strives to maintain a personalised service for the niche market both in sales and rentals. Pacific Boutique Properties is a young and dynamic company with a small multilingual and educated staff with international backgrounds and outlook, who are using their international education combined with their local expertise to help our increasingly savvy global clients purchase or rent Mexican residential and commercial property.

In addition to focusing on the American market, which remains our primary and most important market, Pacific Boutique Properties also caters to the needs of the recently increasing European market as buyers look further field for second homes and investment opportunities or a luxurious rental property to spend some time in the winter.

Pacific Boutique Properties is a member of AMPI (Mexican Association of Professional Realtors) and the Puerto Vallarta Multiple Listing Service MLS.

Scroll down to read about our staff, and for some useful links.

Principals

Catherine Martin de Perniaux - Owner / Broker

Born in London in 1974, Catherine graduated from King’s College London in 1996 with a Batchelor of Arts degree in Modern Languages (French and Spanish) which involved a year spent studying at the universities of Montpellier, France and Guadalajara, Mexico.

Catherine began her professional sales career in investment banking in London; first in Corporate Actions in Salomon Brothers, then in Forex at Deutsche Bank, (1996 – 2000), in Foreign Exchange Options Sales and then in eBusiness, where she was responsible for marketing and training on the use of the bank’s online FX Spot and Option trading systems to the bank’s sales and trading teams and top global clients.

Arriving in Puerto Vallarta in 2000, Catherine began work in the property market there, undergoing her training at Coldwell Banker with the top producing sales team there, and then as a founding member and sales agent of La Punta Realty in Punta de Mita. (2000 – 2007)

Catherine is a qualified translator and occasionally works as a freelance writer on Mexican news stories for London newspapers

Fluent in English, French and Spanish.

Mobile: +52 1 322 227 6109
Email: cm@pacificboutiqueproperties.com

Rosalinda Cipriani - Sales Coordinator / Partner

From French Corsica, Rosalinda Cipriani received her Baccalaureate in 1992, after which she completed a senior year at high school in the United States. Following two years at law school in Paris, specialising in Anglo-American Law, Rosalinda graduated from university in Paris (Institut Supérieur Management Education Formation) in management of educational, social educational and vocational structures specializing in foreign exchange programs. (1997-2000).

Rosalinda arrived in Ixtapa, Mexico in February 2001 to work at the Alliance Française. In December 2001 she moved to the north shores of Banderas Bay, where she spent the next five years working in hotel management and client services in both large hotel chains such as the Marriot, as well as smaller more exclusive boutique hotels such as Villa Amor followed by a position in post sales client liaison in new residential development Punta Esmeralda.

Rosalinda joined Catherine at La Punta Realty to work as her Sales Asssistant in June 2005 supporting her in all aspects of the admininstration for their sales and high end rentals.

Fluent in English, French and Spanish.

Mobile: +52 1 322 120 6763
Email: rc@pacificboutiqueproperties.com

Victoria Pratt - Sales Associate

Victoria Pratt entered the real estate field in 2004 with top-shelf developer Grupo Real del Mar, attracted by the exclusivity of the company's developments on the north bay, observed from her perspective as a resident of neighbouring Bucerias where she has lived for the past 10 years.

Pratt has an extensive background in hotel operations, sales, marketing, and public relations; as well as property management in both her native Canada and Mexico. 'Boutique' is in her vernacular, as Pratt was a major contributor to the establishment and consolidation of Mexico Boutique Hotels as a leading national hotel representation firm in Mexico, having served as public relations director and marketing consultant for five years.

Pratt comments, "The dynamic real estate sector on the Costa Vallarta drew me in and I look to furthering my specialty in the top end of the offering in this geographically and culturally attractive zone. I look forward to bringing investors the best of luxury coastal residences and low-density development properties of distinction."

Fluent in English, French and Spanish.

Mobile: +52 1 322 779 9283
Email: vp@pacificboutiqueproperties.com

Karen Collignon - Sales Associate

Richard Bolduc - Sales Associate

Hailing from Vail, Colorado, Richard now spends most of the year in Punta de Mita. Having worked in real estate since 1983, and settign up his own successful real estate sales, and property managment company, Richard is now putting his experience to work in Costa Vallarta's markets.

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Useful Information and Links for Real Estate Services.

Title insurance and escrow service have for some time been readily available in Mexico, from companies such as Stewart Title in Houston TX, First American in Florida, and Fidelity out of New York. There are numerous English speaking lawyers competent in Mexican Real Estate Law for foreigners, as well as tax lawyers, architects, engineers, interior designers and landscape architects, all at the service of the international client.


Title Insurers and Escrow Agents

http://www.stewart.com/

http://www.firstam.com/

Law Firms

riedesser@prodigy.net.mx

http://www.mexicolaw.com.mx/

Builders

http://www.stonecontractors.com/

Interiors

http://www.casapericos.com/