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Why are rents falling in Tulum?
Tulum rents in Villas de Tulum fell from as much as 16,000 pesos a month to 7,000 to 9,000. Vendors and workers say the lower price still does not fit their income.
Tulum Real Estate, Development, and Investment Context
Reporting and analysis on property, permits, development risk, legality, market trends, and investor context in Tulum.
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Real Estate
There Is More Housing Than People in Tulum
Tulum real estate is feeling the effects of the tourism slowdown, with empty rentals, stalled construction, and owners struggling to pay mortgages as a federal housing plan moves forward.
Real Estate
Tulum Real Estate Market Looks to Retirees and Remote Workers After Sales Halve
The Tulum real estate market sold half as many homes in 2025 as in 2023. Specialists now point to retirees and remote workers as the buyers who could absorb the inventory.
Real Estate
Two Face Criminal Case Over Alleged Environmental Crimes in Tulum
A federal judge bound two people over in a case on alleged environmental crimes in Tulum, centered on a property Profepa ordered restored. Both must now check in monthly.
Real Estate
Environmental Groups Call for a Halt to New Tulum Real Estate Development Approvals
Sélvame MX says Tulum real estate development outran its drainage. The group wants new subdivisions stopped to protect the jungle and the Sac Actun and Ox Bel Ha rivers.
Real Estate
Investors bet on a richer Tulum
Airlines are pulling 72 percent of this quarter’s US capacity to Tulum. Investors answer with Tulum luxury tourism, a Faena complex, and a 57-room UMusic hotel opening in December.
Society
A thousand signatures over Tulum power bills went to the president
CFE bills in Tulum doubled in two cycles, Aldea Zama residents say, with charges on empty apartments, 1,000 signatures to the president, and amparos that changed nothing.
Real Estate
Sedetus pinned two Tulum developments to a map and told buyers to walk away
Sedetus and Tulum's city government warn against Yaax Taanil Kaah and Zonot Kaahah, two Tulum developments without permits now advertised on Facebook.
Real Estate
A furnished apartment and an empty one are two different tax bills in Tulum
Rental income tax in Mexico splits foreign owners in two. Residents pay on net income with a 35 percent deduction. Non-residents pay 25 percent of the gross rent, with nothing deducted.
Lifestyle
What coworking spaces in Tulum actually cost per day
Coworking spaces in Tulum run from about 14 dollars a day to 22 dollars a day, and monthly memberships from 150 to 300. What the price does not cover is the outage.
Businesses
Two pitches stand between a Tulum plastic plant and a million dollars
Waste Neutral Technologies won the Startup World Cup Quintana Roo semifinal on August 27. The Tulum plant that makes fuel from plastic is now two rounds from a million dollars.
Society
A bricklayer's week in Tulum fell from 6,000 pesos to 3,000
The Tulum construction slowdown has moved from the site count to the paycheck. The CROC says a skilled bricklayer's weekly earnings have fallen from 6,000 pesos to about 3,000.
Businesses
Tulum business owners ask landlords to cut commercial rents
Some commercial rents in Tulum still pass 40,000 pesos a month in the low season. Business owners want landlords to cut them, and about 70 shops have already closed this year.
Real Estate
Long term listings in Tulum average 19,066 pesos, and that is before the utilities
A long-term rental in Tulum averaged 19,066 pesos a month across 113 listings on September 2. What that buys by neighborhood, and the costs the rent leaves out.
Society
A letter nobody in Tulum voted on decides when the power subsidy switches off
Electricity bills in Tulum are based on CFE tariff 1B, where the subsidy ends at 400 kilowatt-hours. How to read the recibo and the charge the courts struck down.
Society
The federal documents that explain why Tulum's public beach ever had a gate
Tulum beach access, reconstructed from the federal record. Decrees, tenders, 706 canceled titles, and documents that have not yet been published.
Society
Your refrigerator is paying for a grid that never caught up with La Veleta
Power outages in Tulum start in the last kilometer of the network. Who supplies the service, why the rain trips the circuits, and why the same three colonias go first.
Art & Culture
New alliance puts UMusic Hotel Tulum at the center of Mexico's Tulum Renace strategy
UN Tourism, Inmobilia and Thor Urbana place UMusic Hotel Tulum at the center of Tulum Renace, the federal strategy betting on culture to reactivate the destination.
Real Estate
4,500 vacation rentals in Tulum, and no map of the ones inside irregular settlements
Vacation rentals in Tulum have spread into irregular settlements, the hotel association says, and no census exists to count them. Five registries would answer it. None has been crossed.
Riviera Maya Travel
Cross 180 days in Quintana Roo and your license stops being a tourist question
Driving in Mexico with a foreign license is legal in Quintana Roo as long as the card is valid. The insurance rule, the papers to carry, and the 180-day limit.
Real Estate
Tulum's property market is doing the zoning the boom skipped
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.