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Riviera Maya · Quintana Roo

Zone Intelligence

Cozumel

Island market with unique dynamics. Dive tourism drives STR demand. Limited land supply creates natural floor on values.

COVERAGE BUILDINGEJIDO: LOW

Score AI estimate

52

Risk AI estimate

Coverage building

Trend

—

Predial (Property Tax) Official

1.95‰

per year, built home · Cozumel law, Art. 15

Acquisition Tax Official

3%

once, at closing · Art. 28

Safety Trend AI estimate

rising

Avg STR Yield (est.) AI estimate

11.5%

Verified Participants Measured

21

Full closing-cost & predial breakdown →Compare with other zones →Listings by neighbourhood →Professionals in Cozumel →

52

Healthy

Zone Score · City Level

AI estimate

Cozumel — Zone Map

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Development Score

ApprovedPendingLapsed

Club de Playa Cozumel Opportunity

construction

House Residential Unifamiliar

construction — 1 units

Akabal Towers (DEK 48 project)

construction — 48 units

Muelle Cozumel, Terminal de Cruceros

construction

Casa Residencial Unifamiliar

construction — 1 units

Land Tenure — Agrarian Registry (RAN)

Municipio-level data from the Registro Agrario Nacional's open-data catalogue — precision is per-municipio, not per-zone, so neighboring zones sharing a municipio (e.g. Akumal within Tulum municipio) show the same figures.

Ejidos in COZUMEL

1

Ejido Surface

8,034 ha

1 Certified Nucleus in this Municipio

COZUMELejido

Prices — Current Apartment Listings

Median price

$3,643/m²

Middle half of listings

$2,740 – $4,074/m²

Neighbourhood	Median $/m²	Middle half	Listings
Cozumel Centro	$3,629	$2,847 – $4,074	21

48 apartment listings collected up to 2026-10-14 from EasyBroker. Neighbourhoods with fewer than 8 listings are not shown.

Official Price Trend — SHF House-Price Index

Quintana Roo (state), Q2 2026

+9.8% year on year

Previous quarter (Q1 2026)

+13.42%

Mexico overall

+7.31%

Sociedad Hipotecaria Federal index of homes appraised for mortgages (new and resale, all price segments), as reported by IIEG. It tracks the direction of local home prices, not the foreign-buyer condo market or the listing prices above. SHF does not publish this municipio separately, so this is the Quintana Roo state figure.

Price Record — Apartments

Month	Area	$/m²	Listings	Source
Oct 2026	Zone-wide	$3,643	48	EasyBroker listings
Aug 2026	Zone-wide	$3,649	—	Entered by hand

Prices per m². Listing figures are medians of each collection. Sources differ in coverage, so compare months within the same source.

STR Yield — Consensus Estimate

1br14.3% yield$227.5/night

2br8.7% yield$212.5/night

Riviera Audit consensus estimate, modelled from zone prices and the market data we track; not measured from booking records. Check against actual rental records before relying on it. Month: Sep 2026.

Reported Events

Found by AI search of press and government sites; check the source before relying on an item.

Recuperación de playas en Quintana Roo, including Cozumel — MIA approved

Environmental permit (MIA)

Sep 16, 2026

CFE's temporary generation unit at Central Turbogás Chankanaab, Cozumel — MIA under review

Environmental permit (MIA)

Aug 7, 2026

Club de Playa Cozumel Opportunity — MIA under review

Environmental permit (MIA)

Jul 17, 2026

Fideicomiso Aeroderivadas, Unidades Aeroderivadas Riviera Maya Central Turbogás Chankanaab (CFE) — MIA under review

Environmental permit (MIA)

Jun 17, 2026

Hurricane Beryl (category unreported) — Made a near-miss/regional-impact approach to Quintana Roo, driving storm preparations, tourism disruption, and coastal impacts across affected zones. No verified Quintana Roo-specific insured-loss or economic-damage total was found.

Named storm

2024

Hurricane Grace (Category 1) — Landfall just south of Tulum with roofs torn off homes and structural damage. About 84,000 customers lost power in Cancún and 65,000 without power in Playa del Carmen, Cozumel, and Tulum combined.