What is Faena Tulum Residences?
Faena Tulum Residences is a condominium development in Hotel Zone, Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Current status: Pre-construction. Published price: From $802,500 USD or approximately $14,427,345 MXN at the Banxico FIX rate of 17.978 of 7 Oct 2026. Layouts run from 1 to 3 bedrooms spanning 82 to 476 m². Bathrooms per unit: 1 to 3.5 depending on the layout. Amenities include spa, beach club, pool, restaurant / bistro, gym. For reference, the median price per m² in Hotel Zone (Zona Hotelera) is $127,187 MXN (~$7,500 USD, Banxico FIX 20 Aug 2026) across 624 available units in 5 developments, from the open Nautilus dataset, cut-off 2026-09-21. Coordinates: 20.1872564, -87.4436748. Half of the sub-zone's available inventory trades between $123,793 and $141,386 MXN per m² (p25-p75). Acquisition tax (ISAI) in the municipality of Tulum is 4%; a foreign buyer holds title through a fideicomiso bank trust. Nautilus Real Estate offers this property and publishes no appreciation, return or occupancy projections.
Faena Tulum is a cultural-residential master plan conceived by Alan Faena —the same creator of Faena Buenos Aires and Faena Miami— integrating residences, hotel, ocean club, wellness center and art pavilion into a single community on Avenida Cobá, in Tulum's Hotel Zone. Architecture is by Brandon Haw Architecture (former Senior Partner at Norman Foster), drawing from the solidity of ancient Maya construction to design contemporary homes that merge into the jungle: raw concrete softened with warm wood accents, a palette of sky blues and ochres, interiors crafted with local chukum plaster and burnt sienna privacy screens that cast golden light across terraces. The developer price list has 70 available residences, with 1 to 3 bedrooms and 1 to 3.5 bathrooms; types C and D add a service room and bath, and type D also a family room with bath. The entry unit is FAE3-1A-102, a Type A Ground Floor 1-bedroom, 1-bath of 81.5 m² (877.3 ft²) with amenities view, listed as available on the developer price list. Listed areas are totals: per the developer's floor plans, they include terraces and, where present, a rooftop. That same price list states its USD amounts were calculated at a reference exchange rate of 17.50 MXN/USD and that the rate in effect on the day of the transaction will apply. Residence owners access Tierra Santa Healing House (holistic spa), Faena Ocean Club with floating pools, Francis Mallmann's restaurant, gym and a civic pavilion for cultural events. For the buyer who values cultural curation and integrated wellness over a higher cap rate.
