The real estate trend that is coming for 2025 is vertical housing. Developers have seen in it the efficiency and flexibility it offers, which makes it an attractive option for many people, so they will continue with that commitment next year, said Rajiv Heredia González, president of the Mexican Association of Real Estate Professionals. Southeast (AIS).
“Now developers want more proximity, rather than going to large plots of land in the periphery, as is happening in Tulum, Playa del Carmen, and Cancún, which is now being coupled,” he said.
“And one of the areas that can be seen is Punta Cancún and Nader Avenue, where they are building a lot of vertical construction; houses that were in a space of 300 to 400 square meters are being destroyed to make towers of up to six levels,” he explained.
In this regard, Lenin Amaro Betancourt, southeast coordinator of the National Association of Regional Business Councils (Ancer), pointed out that in the case of Playa del Carmen, the vertical constructions are four stories high as authorized, however, many do not comply with this. Regulation and they have more than eight.
“It can be seen in the center of the city, the tourist area to the beach, Fifth Avenue to federal highway 307, Tenth, where the loading capacity is exceeded, because in past administrations the non-use has been tolerated. Compliance with the regulations, which is why it is seen that it is necessary to update the Urban Development Plan (PDU),” he indicated.
The businessman added that this has resulted in the water supply being deficient, since the pipe that feeds the businesses and small hotels arrives with very little power because it is narrow, made to adequately supply a home, so Every day in the area you see the flow of drinking water pipes.
There are also blackouts due to the overload of electrical energy in the tourist area because there is no supply capacity for the vertical constructions that exceed the due heights and the other thing is the deficiency of drainage, all these imperfections must be resolved in the PDU.
“In the analysis, we must be careful not to approve more heights because unfortunately we have been greatly affected by the corruption of previous governments that have tolerated and there have even been complicities,” he indicated.
Amaro Betancourt added that, from Highway 307 to the west, there is talk of vertical growth in which there are areas before improvement that have a better load capacity to receive this type of construction, however, a tourist analysis must also be done.
Of the technical issue. “Our success has been the low heights, Cancún decided to go with constructions that have resulted in a strengthening of the American market, but in the case of Playa del Carmen, they have an important segment of the European market and we must take care of it. The further up we go, the less Europeans like it and if what we want is to maintain the destination, we have to preserve the spirit of how the Riviera Maya grew,” he concluded.
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