
What $150,000 Buys in Tulum Real Estate Today
“What’s the buy-in for Tulum?” is the first question in almost every conversation. The honest answer isn’t a single number: it’s a list. Here’s ours, with the catalog open as of September 30, 2026. We have 45 properties in Tulum,

A 45 sq m studio in Region 15 for $125,000: the numbers
Articles about investing in Tulum almost always talk about the city. This one is about a single unit: Adora 401, 45,27 m², in Región 15, for 125.000 dollars. It’s a listing from our catalog and the numbers below are its

La Veleta or Aldea Zamá: Where the Same Investment Yields More
The two areas most often compared in Tulum are La Veleta and Aldea Zamá. People usually frame it as a question of prestige: Aldea Zamá is the established one, La Veleta the one that’s growing. To answer it with numbers

A line-by-line breakdown of a Tulum presale pro forma
In Tulum, the first sheet a pre-sale buyer gets is the proforma: price, down payment, payments, and delivery date on one page. It looks like a deal summary. It isn’t. It’s a sales document, and what matters is often what’s

In Tulum, pre-construction isn’t always a better deal than resale
In Tulum almost every salesperson repeats the same line: buy pre-sale, that’s where the upside is. Sometimes that’s true. What almost never gets said is that pre-sale “charges” its discount in time, risk, and rent you don’t collect—and in a

5 mistakes foreigners make when buying property in Tulum
Hardly any purchase in Tulum goes wrong because of a single big decision. It goes wrong because of a chain of small decisions, made in haste and from afar, that add up until there’s no cheap fix. We see them

Buy Tulum property without setting foot in Mexico: 7 real-world steps
The question comes in almost every week, always with the same concern behind it: “Do I have to travel to Mexico to buy?” The short answer is no. You can close on a purchase in Tulum from the United States,

Investing in Mexican Citrus Farmland: The Numbers and the Time Sink
Every so often the same question lands in our inbox: is it worth putting money into farmland—specifically, citrus? The short answer: market numbers look good, but the business hides a time trap almost no one flags in the first conversation.

7 reasons US investors are eyeing Playa del Carmen
When a buyer from the United States looks at the Mexican Caribbean, they almost always start with Cancún. But U.S. analyses in 2026 point with increasing conviction to a spot fifty kilometers south: Playa del Carmen. Here’s why, with the

Why U.S. investors are still eyeing Cancun in 2026
When a U.S. investor looks for where to place capital outside the U.S., the Mexican Caribbean shows up again and again in the reports. Not for the scenery: for the numbers. Here’s what U.S. industry publications are saying about Cancún

Cancun shares France’s alert level — and almost no one knows
The U.S. Department of State keeps Quintana Roo at Level 2 on its travel advisory scale: “exercise increased caution.” It is exactly the same level assigned to France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom. Few tourists know this, and there

Cancún: from beaches to dentists
México closed the first half of 2026 with a record 51,1 millones de visitantes internacionales and an economic impact of more than 18.780 millones de dólares. Within that total a type of tourism is growing on its own terms: it’s