Article: Mexican community 'Loreto-izes' buyers: local residents seeking vacation and retirement homes feeling more confident about investing in Mexico.

In March 2003, when she flew down to Baja California Sur for a site visit at the Villages of Loreto Bay, a residential community in Mexico, Jeanette Amen said she was instantly "Loreto-ized."

"That's what they call it when you lay eyes on this place for the first time," she said. "It's magical."

By June, Amen, who has been a real estate agent in San Diego for 18 years and currently works in the La Jolla office of Prudential California Realty, owned property in the village of Loreto Bay, a $3 billion beachfront community 700 miles south of San Diego on the Sea of Cortez. She has also become a sales agent for the developer.

In mid-March, the ...

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