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About · Updated November 2026

CrossingHQ Editorial Team: How We Research and Publish

How the CrossingHQ editorial team sources, fact-checks, and updates cross-border property content. Citation rules, review cadence, corrections policy.

By the CrossingHQ Editorial Team

A bad citation can cost a reader $2,500 a year in CRA penalties or six figures at a Mexican closing. So we publish under one rule: every claim that touches money cites a primary source, and a build-time check refuses to ship the page if it doesn't.

CrossingHQ runs under institutional bylines — "By the CrossingHQ Editorial Team" — not named individual authors. This page tells you who's behind the masthead, what we cite, what we refuse to cite, how often we re-check the work, and how to flag us when we get something wrong.

For the longer version of the editorial framework, see the methodology page. For our weekly digest of rate changes, treaty shifts, and corrections, subscribe to the Brief — /newsletter.

Why we don't use named bylines

It's the question we get most often. The honest answer has four parts.

1. The right reviewer costs money we don't yet spend. A US CPA with cross-border practice, on retainer to sign off on tax pages, runs into the low five figures per quarter. A Mexican real-estate attorney to review fideicomiso content adds more. Until specific pages clear the traffic and revenue threshold that justifies named expert review, an institutional byline plus dense citations is a more honest signal than a single writer's name on YMYL content with no expert sign-off behind it.

2. Continuity beats personality. Tax thresholds shift. Treaties get modernized. Mexico's STR regulation moves at the municipal level. Content that depends on a single named writer's continued involvement becomes stale the moment that writer moves on. Institutional responsibility means the page gets reviewed quarterly regardless of who's on the team that quarter.

3. Conflict-of-interest hygiene. Writers paid flat fees, with no traffic or conversion bonuses, and no public byline tied to brokerage or developer relationships, are insulated from the soft-pressure dynamics that bend coverage in this category. We don't want the writer of the Mérida page worrying about whether a local developer will hire them next year.

4. The trust signal should be the citations, not the author. The reader making a real decision should be able to click through to BANXICO, the IRS, SAT, the Notariado Mexicano, or a named cross-border CPA firm and verify the claim themselves. The byline isn't supposed to do the work that the source link does.

The team is led by an editor-in-chief with prior cross-border financial publishing experience. The editor-in-chief owns the standards on this page and the methodology page, and accepts feedback at the contact address below.

We plan to add named paid reviewers on top of the institutional byline for select paid market reports as those pages clear the threshold. The "Reviewed by" template slot is already wired across the site so reviewer attribution drops in without a rewrite.

What gets cited and what doesn't

Every page on the site has a citation floor enforced at build time. A page below floor does not publish. Period.

Citation minimums by content type:

What we cite:

What we refuse to cite:

A meaningful share of competitor traffic in this category runs on the second list. We treat that as a signal — not a benchmark.

Voice rules

Calibrated honesty. Wirecutter and State Department for safety content. Declarative and direct for everything else. Direct answer first, exposition after. Honest tradeoffs that name what an option is good for and what it's bad for. Specific numbers with citations. A "Current as of [date]" stamp on every page so you can see when the underlying research was last verified.

Banned phrases (flagged at build time, page won't publish if it contains them). The validator's blocklist covers two categories:

The full machine-readable list lives in the validator config; the page won't promote if any entry matches.

Review cadence

| Content type | Cadence | Trigger for off-cycle update | |---|---|---| | US and Canadian tax overlay | Quarterly | Tax law change, threshold shift, treaty modification, form revision | | Legal (closing process, residency, fideicomiso, succession) | Quarterly + annual deep review | Statute change, regulatory shift | | Market intelligence (housing, STR regs, safety) | Quarterly + continuous monitoring | Major market or rule shift | | Geography (city pages) | Semi-annual + annual deep updates | Material destination change | | Calculator inputs | Quarterly + continuous rate monitoring | Rate or formula change | | Reports | Point-in-time, replaced by successor | New quarterly report supersedes | | Structural (this page, methodology, homepage, FAQ, about) | Semi-annual | Editorial framework change |

When tax law or a fee schedule changes between scheduled reviews, we update the affected pages within 72 hours of confirming the change. The lastReviewedDate updates and material changes get a "What changed in [month]" note at the top of the page for at least one full review cycle.

Bear in mind two real caveats. Bureaucracy lag is real: SAT, CRA, and Agencia Tributaria forms can sit in transition for months between an announced rule change and the new form's release. We note transitions explicitly. And regional variance is real: Mexico's ISAI varies by state, Spain's ITP varies by autonomous community, Italian succession rules vary by region. State-level and regional citations are required where the rule isn't federal.

How we research

  1. Primary government sources first — IRS, CRA, SAT, Agencia Tributaria, equivalents
  2. Named cross-border practitioner publications — for practitioner-perspective and translation of statute into operational guidance
  3. Industry association data — AMPI, CCBR, AEI, regional MLS feeds where available
  4. Trade publications — Bloomberg Tax, Tax Notes International, CPA Canada
  5. Cross-verification — claims that move money are verified across multiple credible sources before publication

[VERIFY] markers go in draft content where a specific number or claim needs a second source. The build validator surfaces every [VERIFY] marker as a warning. Editorial review clears them before the page promotes to production.

How to report a correction

We aim to fix confirmed errors within 72 hours. To report one:

  1. Use the contact form or email the editorial team at the address in the page footer
  2. Include the page URL, the specific claim, and your suggested correction with sources
  3. You don't need to identify yourself

Our turnaround:

When a correction lands, we update the lastReviewedDate, append a correction note at the bottom of the page describing what changed, and preserve the note for at least one full review cycle. Where a reader-submitted correction results in a published change, we acknowledge the contribution by default — unless the reader prefers anonymity.

We particularly welcome correction reports from practitioners with relevant credentials — cross-border CPAs, real-estate attorneys, immigration attorneys, notarios — on tax-framework descriptions, legal-process descriptions, capital gains calculations, and estate-planning content.

Conflicts of interest and disclosures

No paid placements. No payment, free trips, comped stays, or any other consideration in exchange for editorial coverage of brokerages, developers, properties, lenders, or any other entity.

No affiliate revenue on cited sources. When we cite a CPA firm, law firm, or other professional service, the link is for source attribution only — no referral arrangement, no affiliate revenue.

Writer compensation is flat-fee. Writers are paid for their work on a flat-fee basis with no financial incentive tied to recommendations, framings, traffic, or conversion in their content.

Single editorial standard across coverage. Cross-border mortgages, cash, HELOC against a North American home, local non-resident bank financing, and seller carryback all get evaluated on the same axes. If one of those alternatives is the right call for a particular reader, the article says so.

Contact

For corrections, content questions, or editorial inquiries, use the contact form or the address in the page footer.

For the full editorial framework, see the methodology page. For the broader site context, see the about page and the homepage.

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