- For foreign buyers in Mexico City
- Built with local realtors
- Updated this quarter
Here's 99% of what you need to know before buying in Mexico City.
The 12 documents we wish we had before buying in Mexico City. What each colonia costs, what it rents for, how fast it sells again. Plus the things nobody writes down: how far below asking to go, which fees to refuse, and what a seller is hoping you will not check.
The 12 documents to make a good real estate investment in CDMX in 2026
There is a price Mexicans pay and a price foreigners get quoted. Most of these documents exist to close that gap. They are put together with realtors, notaría staff and owners we work with in the city.
Questions
Do you list your sources?
Yes, on every table. Each one says where the figures came from and the month they were collected: the public property registry, published notaría fee schedules, listing histories we track ourselves, condo accounts shared with us by owners, and what the agents we work with in each colonia are seeing week to week. Anything that is an estimate rather than a recorded number is labelled as one.
How long are the documents?
Between one and four pages each. They are tables and checklists rather than reports, so any one of them takes about ten minutes to read.
Which areas do you cover?
Twenty four colonias: Escandón, Narvarte, Del Valle, Nápoles, Portales, Santa María la Ribera, Mixcoac, Granada, Anzures, San Miguel Chapultepec, Juárez, Cuauhtémoc, Doctores, Roma Norte, Roma Sur, Condesa, Hipódromo, Polanco, Coyoacán, San Ángel and a few more. If you need an area or a specific development that is not in there, write to us. We will ask the people we work with in that part of the city and put it together for you at no extra cost.
I have a question about my own situation.
Ask us. If the answer is in the research we already have, we will send it. If it needs a call to someone in that colonia or a look at a specific building, we will do that too and come back to you, at no extra cost.
Is $49 a lot for a set of documents?
You are about to spend a few hundred thousand dollars on a property. The wrong area, a legal fight, fees you were not supposed to pay, an ownership document that turns out to be incomplete: there are plenty of ways this gets expensive. We have done the homework so that you do not have to.
What format are they in?
PDF, so you can read them on your phone, tablet or computer.
When do I get them?
Straight after payment. The download link appears on screen and a copy arrives by email.
How often are they updated?
Every quarter. Our contacts in the city re-check the numbers before each release, so the version you download today is the one updated this quarter.
I have another question.
Ask us on the contact page and we will get back to you.
Three packs
The first pack has 4 documents, the second has 6, and the third has all 12 of our Mexico City research.
All the data and information in these documents was checked this year with agents, notaría staff and owners working in Mexico City.