Casa Jaguar | Three Bedroom Lap Pool Residence in Los Árboles, Tulum

📍 Location Los Árboles Tulum, Carretera Tulum Nuevo Xcán
🌴 Position Five acre jungle lot, gated, fifteen minutes from downtown Tulum

Two hectares of high canopy jungle, and a house that occupies almost none of it. Los Árboles caps construction at five percent of any lot, so what surrounds this residence is not landscaping that a neighbour might one day clear. It is jungle, and it stays jungle, part of a preserve running to twelve hundred acres. Toucans and monkeys move through it. The nearest sound is the community gate, and that is a long way off.

The house runs on one level, 260 m² / 2,799 sq ft of interior opening onto 91 m² / 980 sq ft of covered terrace and a further 307 m² / 3,305 sq ft of outdoor living. Three bedrooms, three bathrooms and a half, all air conditioned. The plan is built around water: a lap pool of 21 meters, seventy feet, finished in black metallic tile so it reads as a dark line cut through the green rather than a blue rectangle dropped into it. Long enough to actually swim.

The Terraces

There are two, and they do different jobs. The first sits under a pergola with seating for sixteen, which is the number that turns a house into a place people gather. The second is quieter, built against a waterfall wall, with a life size jaguar carved from zapote wood standing in it. Zapote is the wood the Maya used for lintels because it outlasts everything, and the piece was made by hand. Beyond both, garden and patio give way to jungle without a fence line to interrupt them.

The Systems

Los Árboles is an off grid community, so this is not a house that depends on the grid arriving. Solar panels carry it, lithium batteries hold the charge overnight, and a generator sits behind both of those. Starlink handles connectivity, which matters more here than it would in town. A water softener runs throughout and the fixtures are Moen under lifetime warranty, the sort of specification that only shows itself years later. Dogs are welcome. Furnishings are negotiable.

Features

• 🌳 Five acre lot, 20,234 m² / 217,799 sq ft, within a twelve hundred acre preserve
• 🏊 Lap pool of 21 m / 70 ft in black metallic tile
• 🏡 Single level plan, three bedrooms, three and a half bathrooms
• 🍽 Pergola covered terrace seating sixteen
• 🐆 Waterfall terrace with life size zapote jaguar
• ☀️ Solar array, lithium storage and backup generator
• 📡 Starlink connectivity
• 🔒 Gated community with security around the clock

Ownership

Tulum sits within Mexico's restricted zone. Foreign buyers acquire through a fideicomiso, a bank trust granting full rights of use, lease, improvement, inheritance and sale. Mexican nationals and Mexican corporations hold title directly. Los Árboles carries a homeowners association fee of USD $1,700 and community rules governing land use, materials and construction footprint. Buyers should review the HOA statutes and confirm areas, systems and fee terms independently.

🛏 3
🛁 3.5
📏 260 m² / 2,799 sq ft interior
🌳 20,234 m² / 5 acres lot
💵 USD $600,000