Condos for Sale in Puerto Aventuras

Puerto Aventuras condos are the only apartments on this coast where a marina slip and a home can sit in the same gated town. We list 12 today: 5 finished and 7 pre-construction. Asking prices run from $289,000 USD for a two bedroom on the golf course to $2,800,000 USD for a whole eight unit building sold as one investment, with a median of $667,000 USD. Sizes run from 1,450 sq ft to over 10,000 sq ft for that building; the median for a single apartment is 1,840 sq ft (171 m²). Two and three bedrooms are the book, five of each.

Marina, golf or sea

The town is built around a working marina cut inland from the sea, with a nine hole golf course, several beaches, a school and a small commercial centre all inside one security gate, and the condos divide by which of those they face.

Marina front. Marina Aqua's two bedroom marina view apartments at $589,189 USD and $597,298 USD, Bloom's two and three bedroom marina front apartments at $639,000 USD and $759,000 USD, and Puerto Aqua's three bedroom marina apartments at $695,000 USD. All of these are pre-construction. Gran Península's three and four bedroom apartments at $934,920 USD and $1,140,666 USD are the largest of the new build, 2,503 and 3,337 sq ft.

Golf. La Cima's two bedroom golf course condo at $289,000 USD is the entry to the town, finished, 1,507 sq ft. Chemuyil 51 is a finished three unit income property with golf views at $375,000 USD.

Sea. Costa Brava A2 is a finished two bedroom oceanfront condo at $539,000 USD, and Quinta Luna is a finished three bedroom ground floor condo with its own stretch of beach at $1,290,000 USD, 3,100 sq ft, the best single apartment in the book.

Then the Nautica Building: eight condominium units in one finished building at $2,800,000 USD, which is a commercial purchase rather than a home and priced as one.

Finished versus off plan

Five of the twelve are finished: La Cima, Chemuyil 51, Costa Brava, Quinta Luna and the Nautica Building. Every marina front apartment in the book is pre-construction, which means there is no finished marina front unit to compare the new prices against, and that is worth knowing before you take a developer's figure as the market's. Off plan pricing here is usually 10 to 20 percent under what a finished equivalent would ask, in exchange for waiting and for taking the delivery risk; ask what is built on the site today.

Who buys a condo here

Boat owners, for whom a marina view apartment two minutes from the slip is the point. Families who want everything inside a perimeter: the school, the beaches, the dive centre, the restaurants along the marina. Owners who want a managed, predictable environment rather than a frontier one, and who accept that the gate costs money. Playa del Carmen is about 20 minutes north, Tulum about 30 minutes south, the airport about 50 minutes. Puerto Aventuras skews to long stay owners rather than weekenders, and its rental market is calmer than Playa's or Tulum's for the same reason.

What to check

Community fees, first and always. They cover the security, the marina, the roads and the amenities, and they are not small; ask for the current figure, what it covers and how it has moved over three years. For the seven pre-construction units, the delivery date in writing and a look at what stands on the site today. For anything marina front, whether a slip is included, available or separate. And the fideicomiso for a foreign buyer, routine on this coast and 60 to 90 days to close.

The figures on this page are asking prices from our own current listings. They are not closed transactions and they are not comparables. The houses in the same town are on our Puerto Aventuras homes page, and the town itself is on our Puerto Aventuras page.