Reporting on permits, construction, regulation, and major development decisions shaping Tulum’s urban growth and investment climate.
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A federal judge dismissed the legal challenge to the Sac Actun road without ruling on the environmental exemption behind it. Elijo por el Clima can still appeal to a collegiate court.
Seasonal closing is off the table, the hotel association says, because sargassum lands eight or nine months a year. What Tulum hotels spend, and what they want covered.
Zofemat says the sargassum cleanup in Tulum has spared most of the sand by using less machinery. What the crews still take, and what happens at Akumal.
Nafin and Bancomext are weighing sargassum plan financing for new collection ships and eroded beaches, with Quintana Roo hotels and small businesses in the same conversation.
Calle 7 Tulum is a construction site again. Curbs and sidewalks are going in, the center of the street is still broken, and no completion date has been given.
Routes vanished, occupancy fell, and prices bent. The case for Tulum real estate investment now runs through absorption, a water permit, and a 13-route winter schedule.
Water up to four degrees warmer and a record sargassum season have put hard numbers on the Riviera Maya climate crisis and on the limits of Mexico's cleanup plan.
Quintana Roo and Tulum authorities urged the public to avoid any purchase, sale, or rental tied to Ocean Tulum, a development they say operates without required permits.
Rent in Tulum starts near 10,000 pesos for an apartment in town while the state's average wage is about 9,200. The condo market is correcting. Long-term housing is not.
Shop and restaurant owners say a camera connection required for Tulum business licenses costs them 1,200 to 1,500 pesos. City Hall says the step is free.
Units under construction climbed from 1,466 to 13,266 in six years. New figures show Tulum real estate oversupply relative to annual sales, which fell to 1,711.
Quintana Roo's urban development agency says the Mayab Tulum project lacks the permits required by state law and warns that any purchase or rental agreement there could carry legal risk.
Around 70 Tulum businesses have suspended operations in recent months. The municipal enforcement director points to commercial rents, not permits, and asks landlords to adjust.
Eleven Quintana Roo beaches carry excessive seaweed, and Tulum's sargassum levels rank among the worst, as hoteliers warn that cleanup now costs three times their electricity bill.
The Tulum public space operation starts in La Veleta, where inspectors and municipal police will review street vendors, mechanical workshops, and abandoned property.
The second edition of a Tulum environmental education program brought children to MURECO, where guided halls and a museum passport turned conservation into hands-on discovery.
Construction of Hospital Joya Tulum has begun, a private investment topping 350 million pesos that adds emergency care, surgery, and intensive care to a growing destination.
Tulum's street commerce operation begins Monday in La Veleta, where inspectors will target unlicensed vendors, roadside mechanic shops and blocked roads before the effort reaches the city center.
A cooling property market reset the math for digital nomads in Tulum, where quiet studios with private pools, real coworking, and nearby cenotes cost far less than they did at the peak.
Oceana wants the federal Tulum sargassum plan grounded in science and regulated harvesting, warning that the alga already carries an environmental, economic, and social toll on the coast.
Merchants accused officials, not only gangs, of extortion. Now Grupo Centurión leads the Tulum extortion investigation as a health official is removed.
