Merida real estate has become the quiet contrarian trade of the Mexican property market. While Canadian money chased beachfront condos up the Caribbean coast, a colonial capital 300 kilometres inland was compounding at 8 to 12 percent a year without the boom-and-bust drama. No cruise ships. No sargassum. No presale towers marketed at Toronto investor…

Los Cabos real estate is the most expensive, most American, and most water-constrained market in this entire Mexico series. It is also the one where Canadians currently have the most negotiating leverage they have had in years. Those two facts are related, and understanding why is the whole point of this post. I have spent…

In the Cancun deep dive, I said Isla Mujeres was a different animal from the Costa Mujeres and Playa Mujeres corridor on the mainland — scarcer land, a heavier luxury skew, and its own municipal rulebook — and that it deserved its own write-up rather than a footnote. This is that write-up. It rounds out the…

I like Cancun. I like it the way I like an airport lounge with a good view – it is where a trip starts, not usually where it ends. Land a plane there, rent a car, and within two hours you can be almost anywhere on the Mexican Caribbean. That accessibility is the single most…