Villa and Hotel Construction in Selvazama

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

Recrea has been building houses in Selvazama and its surroundings off Avenida Cobá 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.

What a Villa Costs to Build in Selvazama

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.

Permits: Construction permits, licences and DRO

Nearby zones: Tankah Bay · Tulum · Tulum Country Club · Xpu-Há

What a Boutique Hotel Costs to Build in Selvazama

Construction cost per key (finished room, excluding land and operations), with island logistics already included. A 12 to 20 key boutique hotel is the format that works best on the island.

What a hotel needs beyond the build

• Municipal operating licence and Civil Protection sign-off
• Wastewater treatment plant sized to occupancy
• Water supply and storage: cistern, pumping and, where needed, a desalination unit
• Contracted electrical capacity with CFE plus a backup generator
• Kitchen, laundry and service areas to health regulations
• Hurricane protection: glazing, closures and a season protocol

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 Selvazama

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. Lodging adds another layer: a land-use certificate with hotel designation — not every lot allows it, and it is the first thing we verify — the operating licence, Civil Protection sign-off, a CFE electrical project sized to occupancy and tourism registration. A restaurant open to the public adds health and capacity requirements.

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.

Selvazama is Tulum’s urbanised master plan: water, drainage, power and fibre already built, with single-family, multi-family and mixed-use lots. One of the few places in Tulum where a lodging project starts without utility feasibility risk; what remains is hotel land use and the SEMA route. Unlike Tankah or Soliman, there is no beach and no ZOFEMAT here: it is urbanised land with connected services. You trade the beachfront for a build that starts without a well, without its own plant and without depending on a dirt road — plus the option of mixed use inside the same master plan.

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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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The guest profile

Selvazama is set up for low-impact lodging: cabins, small lodges and villas scattered among the trees rather than volume. The master plan limits clearing and density, which caps the possible key count but sustains the rate — the product sells on precisely what the rules protect.

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: desarrollo planificado en selva: porcentaje de desmonte y compensación definidos por el conjunto.

Access, services and materials

Access: acceso controlado.

Controlled access means named worker registration, restricted hours and delivery windows. In practice that adds 15 to 25 percent to the programme, at a real cost premium of 8 to 15 percent.

Low salt exposure. 316 stainless can be reserved for genuinely exposed work with 304 used indoors, which saves noticeably on metalwork and steel joinery without shortening service life.

There is no design committee: the municipal licence is essentially the whole procedure, which shortens the calendar and makes this kind of lot a good candidate for a fixed-price contract, with fewer unknowns underground.

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