Resources
What we learn walking buyers through Playa del Carmen, Tulum and Cozumel, explained plainly.
The guides we read compare atmosphere and returns. None of them says they are three separate municipalities, with three revenue laws and three acquisition taxes. That difference is paid on closing day.
Read the guide →Everyone compares Playa del Carmen with Tulum and skips the island. A full guide to the island market: the 3% municipal acquisition tax, the protected natural area and the federal zone on the waterfront.
Read the guide →Pre-construction is the most common way into the Riviera Maya market at the best price. This version brings what the law makes a developer disclose before you sign, with article numbers.
Read the guide →The question foreign buyers ask us most. Yes, and the instrument is called a fideicomiso. Including the filing and the fee almost nobody mentions.
Read the guide →The guides that rank close on an appreciation percentage nobody breaks down and that contradicts itself across pages. Here is what can be checked: the timetable, the fare and the departures board.
Read the guide →The guides that rank publish an unsourced dollar table, and all of them measure a tenant. This is the buyer's budget, starting with the electricity bill.
Read the guide →Sedetus identified 118 irregular subdivisions in the state. These are the signals that make us stop a deal, and the official lookups you can run yourself before wiring anything.
Read the guide →A holding agreement, a promise and a purchase are not the same thing, and confusing them is expensive. What you sign at each stage, which documents to request first, and where your money sits.
Read the guide →Acquisition tax in Playa del Carmen is no longer 2 percent, and selling triggers a 5 percent state tax that almost no guide mentions. What you actually pay, with dates and sources.
Read the guide →The property you use that also produces income is everyone's favorite plan. It is also the easiest one to build wrong. Here is the right order.
Read the guide →Buying your first property is not decided by a pretty rendering. This is the list of what we review with every first-time buyer, in the order it needs to happen.
Read the guide →Playa del Carmen can be a great place to retire, but not for the reasons in the brochures. This is the full conversation we have with every client who arrives with that plan.
Read the guide →Playa has no single best neighborhood, it has neighborhoods that solve different problems. We walk through each area with its real advantages and its drawbacks, and no unsourced yield tables.
Read the guide →The yield numbers floating around are almost always gross, and gross does not pay your bills. Here we separate what comes in from what you keep, with real sources and no inflated figures.
Read the guide →Tulum changed. You can no longer buy the destination, you have to buy an asset that survives scrutiny. The three real risks, the checklist we run on a development, and when we tell a client not to buy.
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