Tulum Real Estate, Development, and Investment Context

One resident argues that fixing Tulum does not start at the beach. It starts with reliable power, a pause on empty building, and travelers who stay all year.

July 10, 2026

Faena Tulum has spent months courting Manhattan's luxury buyers through an exclusive alliance with Serhant, a marketing move rarely seen from a Riviera Maya development.

July 3, 2026

A new agreement with Mexicana de Aviación adds eight summer flights and discounted packages, the centerpiece of a Tulum tourism recovery plan backed by more than 75 businesses.

July 2, 2026

The Tren Maya Tulum hotel, the largest in the army-run chain with 352 rooms, is running nearly empty, and Sedena has acknowledged the shortfall in its own contracts.

July 2, 2026

IMOVEQROO brought driver's licenses, permits, and training to Tulum, letting transport workers skip the long trip to Chetumal for routine paperwork.

July 1, 2026

Winter demand is booming while summer occupancy collapses below 30 percent. The case for Tulum as a seasonal destination, examined.

June 30, 2026

Federal opposition deputies want Sheinbaum and García Harfuch to step into the Tulum tourism crisis, citing extortion, a visitor slump, and citizen complaints over licensing.

June 30, 2026

A developer was arrested in Nuevo León over a Tulum real estate fraud estimated at 57 million pesos, while his business partner remains free on a contested amparo.

June 30, 2026

Tulum vacation rentals have reached 5,119 active units, nearly half the city's hotel inventory, just as demand cools and oversupply, high prices, and sargassum strain the market.

June 27, 2026

Two new fast soccer fields opened at the Tulum sports complex under the federal Mundial Social program, expanding public space for youth, families, and local tournaments.

June 27, 2026

State prosecutors sealed two Tulum hotels inside the national park before dawn, offering no official reason. The tourism sector now waits for the Fiscalia to explain the operation.

June 26, 2026

Why the economic pressures reshaping the American middle class could create an unexpected opportunity for Tulum, and why we should stop measuring our future solely through tourism statistics.

June 25, 2026

Cemda, Greenpeace, and Sélvame MX filed legal complaints over a 16-kilometer army road they say crosses Sac Actun, the cave system feeding the Riviera Maya's water.

June 24, 2026

Record sargassum is burying Tulum's beaches as business owners confront officials over a sanitation fee they say produced no cleanup, while closures spread.

June 22, 2026

Buyers of Ocean Tulum say Grupo VINSA never delivered their apartments or returned their money, with some waiting over three years and now turning to Profeco and the courts.

June 21, 2026

Grupo Origen integrates hotel-grade operations into Tulum residential projects through a partnership with Archipelago International, one of Asia's largest private hotel groups.

June 11, 2026

Tulum's vacation rental occupancy fell to 29% in May 2026, with July now projected at just 16%, as the sector's own president calls it a cautionary case study.

June 10, 2026

A Tulum businessman with 40 years in the destination claims real estate developers are deliberately collapsing the local economy to acquire coastal properties at distressed prices.

June 9, 2026

Tulum extortion allegations are spreading after a business owner detailed on national television how routine municipal bills swelled into the hundreds of thousands of pesos.

June 6, 2026

AMPI Tulum president Mario San Miguel says the local correction is cyclical and that connectivity projects could trigger a new phase in the Tulum real estate market.

May 29, 2026