What is Le Cottage?
Le Cottage is a condominium development in Aldea Zama, Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Current status: Move-in ready. Published price: From $870,000 USD or approximately $14,753,721 MXN at the Banxico FIX rate of 16.9583 of 20 Aug 2026. Layouts run from 3 to 4 bedrooms spanning 223 to 249 m². Bathrooms per unit: 3.5 to 4.5 depending on the layout. Amenities include pool, social dining, lobby, elevator, parking. For reference, the median price per m² in Tulum is $127,247 MXN (~$7,300 USD), from the open Nautilus dataset, cut-off 2026-08-10. Coordinates: 20.2010905, -87.4660474. Acquisition tax (ISAI) in the municipality of Tulum is 4%; a foreign buyer holds title through a fideicomiso bank trust. Nautilus Real Estate represents this property and publishes no appreciation, return or occupancy projections.
Le Cottage is a four-residence condominium in Aldea Zamá, the residential corridor linking downtown Tulum with the hotel zone. It is developed by aptiva, a Guadalajara-based group with more than eight years of track record, also behind Le Cottage San Miguel de Allende, Torres Acueducto 360 and a Hampton Inn & Suites. What sets it apart in Tulum is not the design, good as it is, but the timing: the building is finished. In a market where almost everything sells off-plan with two- or three-year handovers, here you buy a built residence, close the deed and move in. The buyer sees the actual finish before signing, not a render. There are four units and no two share a floor. The ground-floor residence has 223.36 m², three bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, a private garden and the largest pool in the building; its planters are distributed room by room. The three upper ones — levels 1, 2 and 3 — repeat a single 249.21 m² layout with four bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms, a bar, a study and a terrace of its own. All four have a private pool, and the upper ones are reached by elevator. The finishes are documented piece by piece: a steel structure with HSS profiles and composite decking, Castel porcelain tile indoors and out, cedar and tzalam joinery, Eurovent and Española window systems with certified tempered glass, and Sukabumi stone imported from Indonesia in the pools. Kitchens are delivered fully equipped. This is not a beachfront property, and it is worth saying plainly: from the project's coordinates the hotel-zone shoreline is about 3.9 km away, which the developer translates into a ten-minute drive. In exchange you pay for land in Aldea Zamá — the part of Tulum with services, sidewalks and street lighting — rather than front-row square metres. Downtown is five minutes away and the Calavera and Gran Cenote cenotes, ten. Aldea Zamá is a planned subdivision with controlled density, and that rule is what underpins the scarcity argument of a four-unit condominium: nobody can build a tower next door. Transfer tax (ISAI) in Tulum is 4% of the transaction value, and a foreign buyer purchases through a bank trust (fideicomiso) because the property sits within the 50 km restricted zone.
