Condos for Sale in Akumal

Akumal condos are the least expensive way onto this stretch of coast, and every one we list is finished. There are 18 today, and all 18 are inside Bahía Príncipe, the gated resort community south of Akumal village. Asking prices run from $150,000 USD for a one bedroom to $472,972 USD for a three bedroom villa style condo, with a median of $242,000 USD. Sizes run from 603 sq ft to 1,800 sq ft and the median is 1,119 sq ft (104 m²). One and two bedrooms are almost the whole book: nine of each, and a single three bedroom.

What Bahía Príncipe is

A large gated community built around the Bahía Príncipe hotels, with its own beach club, a golf course, security at the entrance and a residential section of low rise condo buildings among the trees. It is not the village. Akumal Bay and Half Moon Bay, the turtles and the dive shops are a short drive north through the gate. What Bahía Príncipe offers instead is a managed environment: paved internal roads, maintenance, a rental programme through the resort for owners who want one, and a community fee that pays for all of it.

The condos, by development

Sian Kaan holds the entry level: one bedrooms from $150,000 USD to $170,000 USD, including garden level and second floor units, most between 600 and 970 sq ft. Tao, in its Hai, Kun and Sek phases, runs from a one bedroom garden unit at $169,000 USD to two bedrooms from $195,000 USD to $330,000 USD, the largest a 1,800 sq ft two bedroom whose seller will consider financing. Terrazas is the middle of the book: one bedrooms at $199,000 USD and two bedrooms from $285,000 USD to $298,900 USD, around 1,270 to 1,367 sq ft. Anah Village has a two bedroom at $299,000 USD. Zelen is a one bedroom chalet style home at $309,000 USD. Baikal sits at the top: a two bedroom at $378,108 USD and a three bedroom villa at $472,972 USD. A one bedroom golf condo at $170,000 USD comes with a rental income history.

Who buys here

First time buyers on this coast, because $150,000 USD to $250,000 USD buys a finished, managed condo in a gated community twenty minutes from Playa del Carmen, and nothing comparable exists in Tulum at that price. Rental owners who want the resort to handle the letting. Golfers. And owners who want to be near Akumal's bays without the price of a house on them. It suits least the buyer who wants to walk out into a Mexican town: Bahía Príncipe is self contained by design.

What to check

The community fee and what it covers, because in a resort community it is the biggest running cost and it funds the security, the roads and the beach club that make the place work. The rental programme's terms, if you intend to use it: the split, the minimum availability and who sets the rate. Whether the unit's furniture is included, which varies condo to condo here. And the fideicomiso, the bank trust through which a foreign buyer holds property within fifty kilometres of the coast, which is routine and takes 60 to 90 days.

A buyer who needs four bedrooms or the sea in front of the house should read our Akumal homes page, where the book starts at $320,000 USD and runs to oceanfront estates. The figures on this page are asking prices from our own current listings. They are not closed transactions and they are not comparables. The village, its bays and everything else we sell there are on our Akumal page.