House Construction in Aldea Zamá

Turnkey new builds in Aldea Zamá: design, permits, foundation, structure and finishes under one contract, one site manager and one fixed price.

Recrea has been building houses in Aldea Zamá and its residential sections since 2008 — 196+ completed projects across the Riviera Maya. Our architecture, electrical, carpentry and ironwork crews are in-house, so your build does not depend on subcontractors who appear and vanish.

How Much House Construction Costs in Aldea Zamá

Real budgets for a completed build, excluding land and furniture. The range depends on the finish level: economy, mid or premium (chukum, hardwood, designer kitchen, infinity pool).

Want the exact number for your lot and square metres? Use the cost calculator or ask us for an itemised quote.

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Nearby zones: Soliman Bay · Holistika, Tulum · La Veleta · Región 12, Tulum

Permits: Construction permits in Aldea Zamá

House Construction Process Step by Step

The construction process is the same one we run across the Riviera Maya: lot review, concept design, construction documents, permits, foundation, shell, services and finishes, then turnkey handover. See the full process with per-stage timings.

The breakdown of what the price per m² includes and excludes is common to all our projects.

Permits and Building Rules in Aldea Zamá

Tulum is the strictest municipality on the coast. On top of land use and the municipal licence with a DRO, most projects need environmental authorisation from SEMA (and an MIA where there is land clearing or proximity to cenotes or mangrove). The PDU caps density and height by zone and requires a minimum permeable green area. Budget 3 to 5 months for permits.

The lot: what decides your foundation

Fractured limestone with frequent cenotes and caverns, especially in Región 15 and La Veleta. A geophysical survey is not optional here: finding a cavern under the footprint after the foundation has started costs weeks of delay and hundreds of thousands of pesos.

Aldea Zamá is Tulum’s urbanised premium zone: underground services, finished streets and the city’s strongest vacation-rental demand. The dominant style is eco-chic — chukum, hardwood, cross ventilation — and SEMA environmental processing is effectively mandatory, so the permit calendar drives the construction calendar.

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Why Build With Recrea

Fixed-price contract by line item, licensed DRO and architects, workers registered with IMSS, weekly photo and video reports and a written one-year warranty.

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What sets this area apart

Aldea Zamá is the master-planned development that turned Tulum into a condominium market: laid-out blocks, wide pavements and a mix of vertical housing, boutique retail and ground-floor commerce. Lots run 300 to 800 m² and the dominant product is the one- and two-bedroom apartment for short lets. Building a house here competes with that use, and privacy and vehicle access have to be handled from the design stage.

The ground and the authority that applies

The water table sits at intermediate depth: conventional foundations work, but pool and cistern excavation is best scheduled outside the rainy season.

The competent municipality is Tulum, and the environmental file falls to SEMA.

What decides this particular plot: densidad y altura acotadas por el máster plan; el arbolado existente pesa en el dictamen.

Access, services and material specification

Access: vialidades internas pavimentadas.

Intermediate salt exposure, where a graded standard serves better than applying the beachfront recipe to everything: 316 stainless for anything permanently exposed to weather, 304 defensible indoors and under cover, quality-coated aluminium with stainless fixings — the galvanic couple between a steel screw and an aluminium frame remains the most expensive and most common mistake.

The development has a design committee, and its ruling is worth obtaining before filing with the municipality: a scheme approved by the city and refused by the committee gets redrawn from scratch. It reviews height and storeys, setbacks, facade palette, plant kept out of sight and existing trees. Allow four to eight weeks and a refundable construction bond.

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