Homes for Sale in Cancún

Cancún homes on our books are family houses inside gated communities, and every one of them is finished. On October 5, 2026 we list 14 houses in Cancún: five in Puerto Cancún, four in Lagos del Sol, four in the Hotel Zone and one in Cumbres. Asking prices run from $500,000 USD for a three bedroom house with a pool in Cumbres to $15,000,000 USD for a six bedroom beachfront villa with its own dock, with a median of $2,300,000 USD across the thirteen with a published price; the fourteenth is offered on application. Sizes run from 2,250 sq ft to 17,222 sq ft and the median is 6,728 sq ft (625 m²). Eight of the fourteen have four bedrooms, and the book runs from two to six.

Four kinds of Cancún house

On the canals and the golf course. Puerto Cancún is the gated marina and golf community where the Hotel Zone meets the city. Villa La Marina 14 is a four bedroom house over four levels with a rooftop pool at $2,300,000 USD. Caimán 210 and 211 are twin four bedroom houses on Isla Caimán looking over the golf course, at $3,000,000 USD and $2,800,000 USD. Puerto Altamira is a five bedroom colonial Mexican house with a dock on the canal at $3,500,000 USD, and Punta Kalia, one of nine houses in a private enclave on the navigation canals, has a 24 meter dock and asks $8,500,000 USD.

On the lakes. Lagos del Sol is the gated community on the inland side of the city, built around a chain of man made lakes, where Cancún families live rather than where the city holidays. Four bedroom houses, most of them on the water, run from $1,229,412 USD to $2,823,529 USD, including Casa Flamingos with two pools and solar with battery storage.

On the beach. The Flamingos enclave, fewer than twenty houses at kilometer 8 of the Hotel Zone on the calm bay side of Punta Cancún, holds a six bedroom villa of 1,600 m² with a private dock at $15,000,000 USD and a six bedroom house with a pool, a palapa and a dock offered on application. Also in the Hotel Zone, Residencial Cascadas and Isla Victoria are gated communities with shared pools: a two bedroom at $535,294 USD and a three bedroom at $705,294 USD.

In the city. Olimpo 5 is a three bedroom family house with a private pool in Cumbres, a gated community with controlled access close to schools and shops, at $500,000 USD.

Who buys a Cancún house

Families who will live here full time and want what a city gives them: hospitals, international schools, supermarkets and an airport with routes to most of North America. Boat owners, for whom a dock on the Puerto Cancún canals or the bay is the point of the house. And buyers who want room and a garden with the sea a few minutes away rather than a tower over it.

What to check

The community fee and what it covers, because every house here sits inside a gate and the fee pays for the security. For a dock, the depth of the canal and the route to open water. Many Cancún sellers price in pesos, and where they do our dollar figures are converted at about 17 pesos to the dollar and move with the rate. Beachfront ownership means the federal maritime zone at the shoreline. And the fideicomiso, the bank trust through which a foreign buyer holds property within 50 km of the coast; a finished home bought in cash usually takes 60 to 90 days from offer to keys.

A buyer who wants an apartment on the sand with a building to look after it should read our Cancún condos page. The figures on this page are asking prices from our own current listings on October 5, 2026. They are not closed transactions and they are not comparables. Everything else we sell in the city is on our Cancún page, and Tulum vs Cancún sets the city against Tulum.