A condo remodel is not a small house remodel. The building has rules, neighbours have patience limits, and half the job is logistics through a single elevator.
Most condominiums in Playa del Carmen require the administration to approve plans before work starts, restrict working hours and days, prohibit work in high season, control access for crews and materials, require a damage deposit, and limit how long the job may take. Some prohibit touching anything that affects the facade or common areas outright. All of this is knowable in a single conversation with the administrator, and it changes both the design and the price — so it happens first, not after demolition.
Interiors, finishes, kitchens, bathrooms and non-structural partitions: usually yes. Plumbing risers, structural elements, facade openings, balcony enclosures and anything shared: usually no, or only with formal approval and an engineer's sign-off. Moving a bathroom in a building without accessible risers is the single most expensive idea in condo remodelling, and it is discovered late far too often.
Ranges per square metre of intervened area, for Playa del Carmen. Condo work carries a premium over house work for a simple reason: everything arrives and leaves through one elevator, on the building's schedule.
| Scope | What it includes | Cost per m², 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Cosmetic refresh | Paint, floors, fixtures, minor joinery | $4,000 – $8,000 MXN |
| Kitchen and bathrooms | Cabinetry, tiling, plumbing fixtures | $9,000 – $18,000 MXN |
| Full interior remodel | Everything except structure and risers | $12,000 – $22,000 MXN |
| Rental-ready package | Remodel plus furnishing and equipping | Quoted per unit |
Protection of common areas and elevator, debris removal in the permitted window, material deliveries booked with the administration, and crews on the building's hours rather than the trade's. On a good project this is planned before the first hammer; on a bad one it becomes a series of arguments with the administrator that stop work for days at a time.
Most of our condo clients are abroad, so the work runs the same way our builds do: fixed price against a line-item budget, weekly dated photo reports, payments tied to verified stages, and written approval for changes. We deal with the administration, the neighbours and the deposit. You approve finishes from a list rather than from a shop counter.
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