| | |  Puerto Vallarta Real Estate 
Major Upgrades for Vallarta/Riviera MLS Service
 BigNews.biz
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March 26, 2010
| | To see the changes visit MLS Search at MLSVallarta.com and click on the "Regions" tab. | |
The Vallarta Lifestyles Publishing Group recently completed two major upgrades to their Puerto Vallarta and Riviera Nayarit, Mexico MLS real estate service commonly known as Multi-List Vallarta (MLV). These changes can be seen at the website MLSVallarta.com.
The first upgrade was adding an "Advanced" search component to the system and overhauling the names used for the regions and sub-regions of Costa Vallarta.
"Previous to this upgrade Multi-List Vallarta was already the most sophisticated MLS tool available for Realtors in Mexico. This significant upgrade only solidifies that position." informs John Youden of the Vallarta Lifestyles Publishing Group. MLV now has 60 real estate offices (33 of which have the MLS interface built into their websites), and 60 real estate developments listings their properties within the system for a total of more than 2,000 properties featured.
Advanced Search now allows public users, to highly refine their real estate searches of Vallarta and Riviera Nayarit by type of property, price range, type of amenities it features and by the listing office. This now gives the public more of the features that have previously only been available to MLV members.
The second update involved creating new regions for Vallarta and Riviera Nayarit. Updating the regions and sub-regions has been a work in progress for some time. The primary reason for doing this was to update an old system that, with the tremendous growth experienced in the last decade in this region, just wasn't accurate anymore. Having a good system for naming and identifying regions is essential for easy use of the MLS system, for both realtors and the public. Names have to make sense in both English and Spanish (if possible), easily recognizable, and borders need to make sense or searches won't make sense.
Costa Vallarta is broken down into three primary markets; Puerto Vallarta, Riviera Nayarit and Costalegre. "When breaking down these three regions even further we found we had established 13 regions and nearly 50 sub-regions. A further problem was created in that some of the sub-regions had the same names as colonias, smaller components of sub-regions and this only caused confusion. We have scaled this back to only nine regions and 41 sub-regions, all now with names that we believe will be easier to understand", said Youden, who created the MLS system back in 1988, then the first of its kind in Mexico.
To see these changes visit MLS Search at www.mlsvallarta.com and click on the "Regions" tab. By clicking on one of the regions a description and aerial photos of the region is presented.
About Vallarta Lifetyles Publishing Group:
VLPG has been publishing information about Puerto Vallarta and the local real estate industry since 1988. Along with providing MLS service, they also publish a number of magazines such as Vallarta Lifestyles and Riviera Nayarit, along with websites such as www.mlsvallarta.com, www.virtualvallarta.com and www.vallartarealestateguide.com. John Youden also has a blog about the local real esate industry which you can fine at www.vallartarealestate.wordpress.com. The Vallarta Lifestyles Publishing Group can be contacted at (322) 221-0106 or revistas(at)mexmags.com. |
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