The PVL Team

Welcome to the PVL Team.

We are your Real Estate Professionals. 

Our commitment: To deliver personalized service, utilize the highest industry standards and create the most successful experience for each of our individual clients.

Experience, Service and Results!

Our combined experience over many years in the Real Estate Industry makes us experts in Sales and Marketing, Property Research, Investing, Development/ Renovations and Mortgage Finance.

We pride ourselves on service and believe the most important skill to begin any great business relationship is “listening”. Your needs and goals are always our first and most important priority.

We deliver! The results we commit to while achieving your objectives will come from a strategically executed plan that is developed with and just for you.


Our Agents


Patrick O. Smith, DSW, B.Soc.Sci. CCM

Patrick offers a over a quarter century of Real Estate excellence which derives from both a broad professional spectrum as well as his very personal “passion for property”. During a fifteen year career working in various forms of Social Work, Patrick’s real estate “investment and redesign hobby” evolved into much more than just a creative outlet. It became lucrative. As a team leader, his understanding of property acquisition and resale, restoration and capital growth, property management and many industry variables all come to the table.

Patrick has won countless Industry awards in Canada, is a Certified International Property Specialist (CIPS) with the National Association of Realtors (U.S.) and owns a Brokerage operating in Puerto Vallarta Mexico.

Ultimately, formal Real Estate licensing 24 years ago at the Ontario provincial level and then becoming member of the Ottawa Real Estate Board (OREB) bring us to the more current: The birth of the OLH team in 2015. Experience, Service, Results was and still is our motto.

Patrick continues to own and develop a variety of working and recreational properties in Canada, the United States and Mexico.

He has also developed and redesigned multiple properties and builds from the “ground up”. With an added educational background in Corporate Communications and Public Relations, he ensures your marketing needs take a strategic place in the plan. As a result our team offers a competitive edge in the listing process. OLH client sales stand out against the crowd, Patrick brings diverse experience, creativity, a rich understanding of the real estate industry along with the key ingredient: respect for each client as an individual.


Luis Alfonso Sanchez

Luis Sanchez has spent his adult lifetime as an entrepreneur and a career professional putting people first. With 20 years in the health and wellness industry, many certifications plus managing his own holistic Healing Spa, he comes to The PV Lives Here team with a diverse range of skills. Born in Cuernavaca, Mexico, he also holds visas in both Canada and the United States.

Luis comes to the table with a true sense of empathy for all his clients, both international and domestic. He has educated himself with all available certifications and a registration with A.M.P.I. He believes that in this vibrant, fast-evolving and inclusive economic time here in Banderas Bay, it has never been more important to work with both a reputable brokerage and an individual who is properly educated. Luis’s motto is clear: Support buyers and sellers with absolute diligence. Share professional insight and knowledge. Live and work with integrity.

Living in the center of all the action, in the heart of Old Town Vallarta, you can contact Luis by email, phone, text or WhatsApp at  777 267 7989