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SUMMARY
Puerto Vallarta rents are no longer rising broadly across the city. The best current long-term benchmark is roughly flat from early 2025, even though Versalles and Emiliano Zapata are still up by about 14% to 15%.
The key distinction is between high rents and rising rents. Puerto Vallarta remains expensive after several years of repricing, but the market no longer shows the same citywide upward momentum.
Citywide averages also hide two different rental markets. Premium portals such as Pincali and Inmuebles24 cluster around MXN 35,000 a month because they carry more furnished, newer and foreign-facing condos, while broader neighborhood data shows much lower rents inland and in older stock.
Rent growth is becoming more local. Versalles still has enough demand and development momentum to keep repricing, while Zona Hotelera Norte is already flat despite remaining expensive.
The short-term market is giving landlords less support than before. AirDNA has Puerto Vallarta ADR down 18.4% year over year and RevPAR down 11.1%, even with occupancy rising.
Tourism and Airbnb pricing are moving in the same direction. Puerto Vallarta airport handled about 550,000 fewer passengers in the first seven months than a year earlier, which weakens the case for another immediate surge in tourist-facing rents.
New condo supply is another brake, especially at the upper end. Hundreds of presale apartments are still visible in the market, giving investors more units to place into either short-term or long-term rental after delivery.
Property prices have also outpaced rental income over the longer run. Using Pincali's current apartment sale median and rental median gives an implied gross yield of only about 5.3% before HOA fees, management, vacancy, repairs, insurance and taxes.
Flat rents do not mean Puerto Vallarta has become affordable. Local households still face a large gap between inland rents around MXN 9,000–15,000 and foreign-facing condo rents that can easily run MXN 30,000–50,000 or more.
The most likely next phase is a high, uneven plateau rather than a broad crash. Some landlords will cut unrealistic asks, stronger neighborhoods can still rise, and another citywide rent surge would probably require both a tourism rebound and tighter housing supply.
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Are Puerto Vallarta rents still rising citywide?
Puerto Vallarta rents have largely stopped rising citywide, even though several popular neighborhoods are still getting more expensive.
The clearest current benchmark comes from Propiedades.com. Its latest rental-market data shows average apartment rents across Puerto Vallarta essentially unchanged between early 2025 and the latest reading. That puts the city at roughly 0% growth over about a year and a half.
Some neighborhoods tell a very different story. Versalles is up 14.1% over the same period, while Emiliano Zapata is up 15.4%. Zona Hotelera Norte, meanwhile, is flat.
That gap is really the story now. Puerto Vallarta went through a major repricing over the previous several years, leaving rents at a much higher level than before. These days, however, another broad wave of rent inflation is difficult to see in the data.
The short-term rental market makes the slowdown even clearer. AirDNA’s latest full-month data puts Puerto Vallarta’s average nightly rate at US$175, down 18.4% year over year. One of the markets that helped landlords push housing returns higher is currently moving the other way.
Puerto Vallarta is now an expensive rental market where growth has become very local. Choosing the neighborhood matters much more than the citywide trend.
| Puerto Vallarta rental indicator | Current level | Recent change | What it suggests |
|---|---|---|---|
| Puerto Vallarta long-term apartment rents | City benchmark | ~0% | Citywide growth has stalled |
| Versalles apartment rents | MXN 19,675/month | +14.1% | Still rising clearly |
| Emiliano Zapata apartment rents | MXN 17,047/month | +15.4% | Still rising clearly |
| Zona Hotelera Norte rents | MXN 19,675/month | 0% | High but currently flat |
| Airbnb average daily rate | US$175/night | -18.4% YoY | Short-term pricing is weakening |
Why do Puerto Vallarta rent figures look so different depending on where you look?
Puerto Vallarta rental averages vary wildly because different websites are effectively measuring different versions of the city’s rental market.
Pincali currently reports a median apartment asking rent of MXN 35,000 per month across 90 listings. Inmuebles24 is almost identical, with an average around MXN 35,500 across roughly 180 apartments.
Then Propiedades.com gives numbers that look much cheaper: roughly MXN 19,675 in Versalles, MXN 17,047 in Emiliano Zapata, MXN 14,968 in Las Glorias and MXN 9,300 in Ixtapa.
The gap is too large to dismiss as normal statistical noise.
A big part of the explanation is listing mix. Pincali and Inmuebles24 contain a heavy concentration of newer condominiums, furnished properties, pool buildings and apartments marketed to higher-income Mexican renters, foreigners and seasonal residents. Pincali’s current Puerto Vallarta inventory alone has 31 apartments in Marina Vallarta, one of the city’s most expensive submarkets.
Propiedades.com captures more modest housing alongside that premium inventory. Current listings reinforce the difference. Versalles has furnished one-bedroom apartments asking around MXN 23,000 to MXN 35,000, yet much cheaper properties still exist farther inland and away from the strongest tourist areas.
An “average Puerto Vallarta rent” can therefore mislead someone pretty quickly. A foreign renter looking for a furnished two-bedroom with a pool may genuinely face MXN 30,000–40,000. A local household looking inland is shopping in a very different market.
| Source / market | Current figure | Listings | Market captured |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pincali Puerto Vallarta apartments | MXN 35,000 median | 90 | Heavily premium/furnished |
| Inmuebles24 Puerto Vallarta apartments | MXN 35,500 average | ~179 | Large premium portal inventory |
| Propiedades.com Versalles | MXN 19,675 | 18 in latest market dataset | Mixed neighborhood stock |
| Propiedades.com Emiliano Zapata | MXN 17,047 | 6 | Central neighborhood |
| Propiedades.com Ixtapa | MXN 9,300 | 9 | Lower-cost peripheral market |
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Versalles went from a quiet grid of local streets to a wall of new towers in five years, and the rents never followed. Where asking prices sit furthest from what places really earn and resell for.
Which Puerto Vallarta neighborhoods are still seeing rents rise?
Puerto Vallarta rent growth is currently concentrated in specific central neighborhoods rather than spreading across the whole city.
Versalles provides one of the cleanest examples. Propiedades.com calculates a 14.1% increase from early 2025 through its latest reading, compared with approximately 0% across Puerto Vallarta overall.
Emiliano Zapata shows a similar 15.4% increase. Las Glorias appears to have risen much faster, while Puerto Vallarta Centro also shows an unusually large jump.
We should be careful with the most dramatic figures. Some neighborhood samples are very small, which means a few expensive apartments entering or leaving the market can move the reported average sharply. Emiliano Zapata itself has only six properties in the latest market-intelligence sample. Amapas has been even thinner.
Versalles deserves more confidence because several pieces of evidence line up. Its rental increase is meaningful, its active rental inventory is larger, and its broader real-estate market has grown dramatically over the past decade.
MLS Vallarta found that the Francisco Villa area, which includes Versalles, represented only around 2% of regional property transactions in 2015. By 2025, its share had climbed above 10%.
That is a big structural shift. Buyers and renters have progressively moved beyond the traditional Zona Romántica and beachfront core, and the neighborhoods receiving that demand have repriced.
| Area | Estimated apartment rent | Change since early 2025 | How much confidence we put in it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Versalles | MXN 19,675 | +14.1% | Relatively strong |
| Emiliano Zapata | MXN 17,047 | +15.4% | Useful, but smaller sample |
| Zona Hotelera Norte | MXN 19,675 | 0% | Stronger inventory base |
| Marina Vallarta | MXN 34,400 | — | Useful current price, weaker trend comparison |
| Ixtapa | MXN 9,300 | — | Useful affordable-market benchmark |
Is Versalles still getting more expensive?
Versalles rents are still climbing, although much of the neighborhood’s huge repricing has already happened.
The latest Propiedades.com data puts the average Versalles apartment around MXN 19,675 a month, up 14.1% from early 2025. Live listings can run much higher. Current one-bedroom asking rents include roughly MXN 23,000, MXN 27,500, MXN 29,500 and MXN 35,000, with newer buildings and amenities commanding the highest prices.
As seen above, Versalles has also gone from a secondary real-estate area to a major part of Puerto Vallarta’s market. The wider Francisco Villa zone increased its share of regional transactions from around 2% in 2015 to more than 10% in 2025.
That helps explain why rent is still moving here even while the overall city is flat. Versalles now has restaurants, newer condominium buildings, good access to the Hotel Zone and much stronger recognition among foreign renters.
Good Versalles apartments should still become more expensive over time. Repeating the recent pace will be harder, though. Renters have already discovered the neighborhood, developers have already moved in, and current asking prices leave much less room for a sudden catch-up with Puerto Vallarta’s traditional premium areas.
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Are beachfront and luxury rents in Puerto Vallarta still going up?
Puerto Vallarta’s premium rents remain very high today, but expensive beachfront housing is no longer automatically getting more expensive every year.
Marina Vallarta illustrates the price level. Propiedades.com currently estimates average apartment rent around MXN 34,400 per month. Pincali has 31 Marina Vallarta apartments in its rental inventory, making the marina one of the largest concentrations of premium rental listings on the portal.
Inmuebles24 reports an even higher average of roughly MXN 45,667 in Zona Hotelera Norte. That dataset is especially exposed to newer, furnished and luxury inventory, so we would avoid treating MXN 45,667 as the rent paid by a typical household.
The more interesting number comes from the trend. Propiedades.com has Zona Hotelera Norte around MXN 19,675 on its broader neighborhood index and calculates 0% rent growth since early 2025.
A renter can therefore face MXN 30,000, MXN 40,000 or considerably more for the right waterfront apartment while rent inflation in that submarket has already cooled.
New condominium stock adds another restraint. An older building now competes with apartments offering rooftop pools, gyms, coworking areas, newer interiors and better common spaces. Owners of ordinary units have less freedom to raise rents simply because their building sits close to the beach.
Are Puerto Vallarta Airbnb prices still rising?
Puerto Vallarta Airbnb nightly prices are falling sharply right now.
AirDNA’s latest Puerto Vallarta market update covers 6,496 active short-term rentals. Average occupancy is 57%, up 14% year over year, while the average daily rate has dropped 18.4% to US$175.
RevPAR, which combines occupancy and nightly price, is down 11.1% to about US$100.
That combination tells us more than the ADR decline alone. Hosts are filling a larger share of their available nights, yet they are earning less per available night because prices have fallen so much.
AirDNA also reports average trailing annual revenue of US$31,400 per active listing, up strongly year over year. We would treat that revenue comparison cautiously because AirDNA simultaneously shows a 49.8% decline in the number of active listings. When the composition of the active-property pool changes that dramatically, average revenue per remaining listing can jump even while the market itself becomes less lucrative on each available night.
For the rental debate, ADR and RevPAR are cleaner indicators. Both currently point downward.
| Puerto Vallarta short-term rental metric | Latest level | YoY change | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| Active listings | 6,496 | -49.8% | Major change in tracked supply |
| Occupancy | 57% | +14.0% | More available nights are booking |
| Average daily rate | US$175 | -18.4% | Guests are paying less per booked night |
| RevPAR | US$100 | -11.1% | Earning power per available night is down |
| Annual revenue per active listing | US$31,400 | +62.8% | Distorted by changing active-listing mix |
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Is weaker tourism starting to take pressure off Puerto Vallarta rents?
Puerto Vallarta’s tourism slowdown is now large enough to reduce rental pricing pressure, especially for apartments aimed at foreign visitors.
Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico recorded 3.806 million passengers at Puerto Vallarta airport during the first seven months of the year. During the same period a year earlier, the airport handled 4.356 million.
That is 550,000 fewer passengers, a 12.6% drop.
The deterioration was still visible in the latest available month. Passenger traffic fell from 550,600 to 484,200 year over year, down 12.1%.
International travel has been particularly weak. Earlier GAP figures already showed international Puerto Vallarta traffic falling much faster than domestic traffic. That matters disproportionately for the furnished and vacation-rental markets because Canadians and Americans support a large share of the destination’s high-season accommodation demand.
The softer Airbnb numbers fit the same picture. As pointed out above, AirDNA’s latest data has average nightly prices down 18.4%. We now have weaker airport traffic and lower short-term rental pricing pointing in the same direction.
That still does not mean long-term rents should suddenly collapse. Puerto Vallarta remains one of Mexico’s largest resort destinations, and long-term residents generate housing demand independently of tourism. But landlords catering to visitors and seasonal foreigners have less room to keep pushing prices higher while international arrivals are falling this quickly.
Is all the new condo construction slowing Puerto Vallarta rent growth?
Puerto Vallarta is building enough new condominium inventory to make repeated rent increases harder in the upper end of the market.
Pincali currently shows more than 400 Puerto Vallarta apartments in presale. The same portal has roughly 635 apartments for sale overall, so the amount of future or recently developed inventory visible in the market is substantial.
The construction is spread through several of the same areas that attract renters and investors. Current presale stock appears in Versalles, Marina Vallarta and Zona Hotelera Norte, alongside projects farther from the traditional downtown core.
MLS Vallarta describes the wider bay as being in another active development cycle, with new projects going up across Puerto Vallarta and Riviera Nayarit. Marina Vallarta has started using some of its remaining development sites, while Versalles has become one of the busiest growth areas.
A large part of this supply is expensive. It does very little to solve the shortage of affordable housing for local workers.
It can still cap premium rents. Investors buying new apartments commonly have three choices after delivery: occupy them, place them into short-term rental, or find a longer-term tenant. Hundreds of additional investor-friendly units create competition across all three channels.
That competition is becoming especially relevant now that short-term nightly rates are weaker. Owners who cannot achieve their expected vacation-rental numbers may become more flexible on monthly rentals.
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Have Puerto Vallarta home prices risen faster than rents?
Puerto Vallarta property prices have run far ahead over the long term, while rent growth has recently slowed.
MLS Vallarta’s ten-year review puts the average condominium sale price at about US$310,000 in 2015 and US$490,000 in 2025. That is an increase of roughly 58%.
Some parts of the market rose much faster. Central Vallarta North gained around 150% over the decade, while Central South and the Hotel Zone approximately doubled.
Current asking prices remain elevated. Pincali now puts the median Puerto Vallarta apartment for sale at MXN 7.86 million across 635 listings. Its current rental median is MXN 35,000 per month.
MXN 35,000 annualized gives MXN 420,000 in gross rent. Against a MXN 7.86 million purchase price, that works out to around 5.3% gross before HOA fees, property management, vacancy, repairs, insurance and taxes.
That is a useful reality check. Owners have benefited enormously from property appreciation, but current purchase prices require fairly high rents just to generate moderate rental yields.
With citywide rent growth currently close to flat, investors can no longer assume that rising rents will quickly repair an expensive purchase price.
| Puerto Vallarta apartment measure | Current / historical value | Calculation | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average MLS condo price in 2015 | US$310,000 | — | Pre-boom benchmark |
| Average MLS condo price in 2025 | US$490,000 | ~+58% | Huge decade-long appreciation |
| Current Pincali sale median | MXN 7.86m | 635 listings | Expensive entry point |
| Current Pincali rent median | MXN 35,000/month | 90 listings | Premium rental benchmark |
| Implied gross yield | ~5.3% | 420k / 7.86m | Moderate before expenses |
Where can renters still find cheaper apartments in Puerto Vallarta?
Puerto Vallarta still has apartments well below MXN 30,000 a month, but finding them usually means moving away from the premium waterfront and foreign-oriented condo market.
Propiedades.com currently estimates average apartment rent around MXN 9,300 in Ixtapa. The equivalent figures are roughly MXN 14,700 in 5 de Diciembre, MXN 14,900 in Las Glorias, MXN 17,000 in Emiliano Zapata and MXN 19,700 in Versalles.
Compare those figures with Marina Vallarta at roughly MXN 34,400, and the geographical divide becomes obvious.
Current portal inventory confirms that the lower end still exists. Pincali’s entire Puerto Vallarta apartment sample stretches from about MXN 12,000 to MXN 130,000 per month. Inmuebles24 has Nuevo Ixtapa averaging around MXN 17,500, while premium Zona Hotelera Norte averages more than twice that amount.
5 de Diciembre is an interesting middle ground. Renters remain close to downtown and the coast without paying the same premium attached to the newest Zona Romántica and Marina Vallarta buildings.
Ixtapa and Nuevo Ixtapa go much further on price, but the trade-off is distance. The cheapest parts of Puerto Vallarta tend to require more driving, fewer tourist-oriented amenities and less walkability to the beach.
So someone saying “Puerto Vallarta costs MXN 35,000 a month to rent” is describing one very visible part of the market. Plenty of residents pay much less.
| Area | Approximate current apartment rent | Position in the market | Main trade-off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ixtapa | MXN 9,300 | Affordable | Farther inland |
| 5 de Diciembre | MXN 14,700 | Lower-middle | Older/more mixed stock |
| Las Glorias | MXN 14,900 | Lower-middle | Less tourist prestige |
| Emiliano Zapata | MXN 17,000 | Mid-market | Huge variation by building |
| Versalles | MXN 19,700 | Mid-market / rising | Rapidly gentrifying |
| Marina Vallarta | MXN 34,400 | Premium | High-end location and amenities |
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Are Puerto Vallarta rents becoming unaffordable for local residents?
Puerto Vallarta’s foreign-facing rental market is already beyond what many local workers can comfortably afford.
The problem becomes obvious when we look at the rent ladder. Pincali’s median apartment is currently MXN 35,000 per month. Inmuebles24 produces almost the same figure.
Even the cheaper neighborhood benchmarks are substantial: around MXN 14,700 in 5 de Diciembre and MXN 19,700 in Versalles.
Those prices sit inside a city where tourism, restaurants, retail and hospitality employ large numbers of people. Housing demand from retirees, remote workers, foreign owners and higher-income Mexican households competes with local demand for the same centrally located apartments.
The pressure is especially visible in neighborhoods that used to provide an affordable alternative to the tourist center. Versalles is the clearest case. A 14.1% rent increase since early 2025 is much easier for a foreign renter earning dollars to absorb than for a household earning pesos locally.
Moving inland remains the main escape valve. Ixtapa around MXN 9,300 is dramatically cheaper than Marina Vallarta around MXN 34,400, but distance from employment, schools and central services becomes part of the housing cost.
Flat citywide rents therefore offer limited relief to residents who already experienced several years of repricing. Stabilization stops the problem from getting worse as quickly; it does not undo the previous increases.
Could Puerto Vallarta rents actually fall from here?
Puerto Vallarta rents could soften over the next year, but a large citywide drop still looks less likely than a prolonged period of flat or uneven rents.
Several forces are now working in renters’ favor. Airport traffic has fallen by double digits, international tourism has weakened, short-term rental nightly rates are down, and hundreds of new condominium units remain in the development pipeline.
That combination should make landlords more price-sensitive. An apartment that stays empty for a month because the owner insists on MXN 35,000 can quickly produce less annual income than accepting MXN 31,000 or MXN 32,000 from a reliable tenant.
The strongest neighborhoods can still resist that pressure. Versalles and Emiliano Zapata are benefiting from their own local demand, while scarce high-quality apartments with views, walkability or strong amenities can keep commanding premium rents.
There is also a large difference between lower asking rents and an actual housing downturn. Puerto Vallarta still attracts retirees, Mexican buyers, seasonal residents and long-term foreign residents. Property development remains active precisely because developers still see demand around the bay.
Our base case is a messier rental market: some landlords cutting unrealistic asking prices, some neighborhoods continuing to rise, and the city average going sideways.
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What would make Puerto Vallarta rents start rising quickly again?
Puerto Vallarta would probably need stronger tourism and tighter housing supply before another broad rent surge could begin.
A recovery in international visitors would be the fastest trigger. The city has recently lost more than half a million airport passengers versus the comparable period a year earlier. Reversing that decline would improve demand for vacation accommodation and make short-term rentals more attractive again.
A rebound in Airbnb pricing would reinforce it. Hosts currently have higher occupancy but weaker nightly rates. If both occupancy and ADR started rising together, owners would once again face a stronger incentive to keep apartments in the vacation market rather than offer monthly leases.
Construction is the other side of the equation. More than 400 presale apartment listings are currently visible on Pincali alone. As long as developers continue adding investor-oriented units, rental supply has room to grow.
A slowdown in construction combined with another boom in foreign demand would be much more bullish for rents.
For now, those conditions have not lined up. Puerto Vallarta remains highly desirable, but today's rental market has more supply and weaker tourist pricing than it did during the strongest phase of the post-pandemic boom.
So, are rents still rising in Puerto Vallarta?
Mostly no: Puerto Vallarta rents are currently high, but the broad citywide rise has stalled.
The latest neighborhood data gives us the clearest answer. Puerto Vallarta overall is roughly flat from early 2025 through the latest reading. Versalles is still up 14.1%, Emiliano Zapata is up 15.4%, and Zona Hotelera Norte is flat.
As seen previously, short-term rentals are also losing pricing power. AirDNA’s latest full-month update has the city’s average daily rate down 18.4% year over year and RevPAR down 11.1%.
Tourism is adding another brake. Puerto Vallarta airport has handled about 550,000 fewer passengers over the first seven months of the year than during the same period a year earlier. Meanwhile, more than 400 presale apartment listings remain visible in the city, adding future competition for both short-term and long-term tenants.
None of this has made Puerto Vallarta cheap. Pincali still shows a MXN 35,000 median apartment rent, Marina Vallarta is around MXN 34,400 on Propiedades.com, and furnished units in desirable buildings can easily reach MXN 30,000–50,000 or more.
The difference today is momentum. Puerto Vallarta has already gone through a major rental repricing, and that surge has run out of steam across much of the city. Versalles, Emiliano Zapata and a few other pockets can still move higher, but saying that “Puerto Vallarta rents are still rising” now gives the wrong impression.
The better description is a high plateau: a few neighborhoods are still climbing while the broader market catches its breath.
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OUR METHODOLOGY
This analysis tests whether Puerto Vallarta rents still have broad upward momentum. We did not try to answer that from a single citywide rent average. Instead, we separated current price level from direction of travel and compared long-term rents, neighborhood changes, short-term-rental pricing, tourism demand, new condominium supply and property values.
For long-term rents, we relied most heavily on comparable neighborhood series from Propiedades.com because they let us measure changes over time rather than just the price of whatever happens to be listed today. Versalles, Emiliano Zapata and Zona Hotelera Norte are especially useful because they show that the city can be roughly flat overall while individual neighborhoods still move quite differently.
Live rental portals were used for a different purpose. Pincali and Inmuebles24 help show what renters are currently being asked to pay and how premium-heavy the visible market can be. We did not treat their city averages as interchangeable with the broader neighborhood trend data because their inventories contain more furnished, newer and foreign-facing properties.
We gave less weight to dramatic neighborhood percentage changes when the underlying sample was thin. A large move based on only a handful of listings can be real, but it is much easier for listing mix to distort. Versalles carries more weight in the analysis because the rent trend lines up with deeper active inventory and a much larger structural increase in transaction activity over the past decade.
For short-term rentals, we focused primarily on ADR and RevPAR from AirDNA when judging current pricing power. Annual revenue per active listing was treated more cautiously because AirDNA simultaneously shows a very large decline in the number of active listings, which can change the composition of the remaining pool.
We then checked whether rental pricing was consistent with independent demand and supply evidence. Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico and its SEC filing provide the passenger figures used to measure the tourism slowdown, while Pincali and MLS Vallarta help show how much investor-oriented condominium supply remains in the market and where that development is concentrated.
Property-sale data adds the final context. MLS Vallarta's 2015–2025 review shows how far condominium prices and the geography of demand have already moved, while Pincali's current sale and rental medians let us build a simple gross-yield reality check. That yield is directional rather than a full investment return because it excludes HOA fees, management, vacancy, repairs, insurance and taxes.
The final conclusion comes from convergence across those different indicators. Citywide long-term rent growth is close to flat, several neighborhoods are still rising, Airbnb pricing has weakened, airport traffic is lower and new condo supply is still arriving. Taken together, that supports a high but much flatter rental market rather than another broad surge.
Key sources used for this analysis include: Propiedades.com on Versalles rents, Propiedades.com on Emiliano Zapata rents, Propiedades.com on Zona Hotelera Norte, Propiedades.com on Marina Vallarta, Propiedades.com on 5 de Diciembre, Propiedades.com on Ixtapa listings, Pincali on Puerto Vallarta apartment rentals, Inmuebles24 on Puerto Vallarta apartment rentals, AirDNA on Puerto Vallarta short-term rentals, Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico traffic reporting, GAP's SEC filing with July 2026 passenger figures, MLS Vallarta's 2015–2025 market review, MLS Vallarta's development inventory, and Pincali on Puerto Vallarta apartments for sale.
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