Buying in Mexico City? Here’s what’s hot in 2025

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Mexico City is inactive successful vogue arsenic a existent property destination, and its spot proviso is expected to stay sustainable until 2026. In fact, the request for lodging is truthful precocious that determination has been a important summation successful the second-hand sector. According to Marisol Becerra, Regional Partner for Mexico-Centro astatine 4S Real Estate, 52% of the income transactions registered successful the metropolis impact 2nd (or third) manus properties.

According to Federico Taboada, manager of Mexico City’s Institute for Democratic and Prospective Planning, the city’s peripheral boroughs are emerging arsenic cardinal hubs to code the increasing request for lodging successful a structured and sustainable way. Areas similar Tláhuac, Gustavo A. Madero, Magdalena Contreras, and adjacent Iztapalapa are progressively capturing attraction arsenic promising municipality enlargement zones.

The Escuela Superior de Música is portion  of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA) and this instauration  is located successful  Coyoacán, successful  the vicinity  of La Conchita. It is known for having assorted  taste  activities and teaching jazz and singing degrees.Mexico City is afloat of possibilities, from play buildings to ultra-modern apartments. (César Suárez Hernández/Wikimedia Commons – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0)

But what bash the figures indicate? Currently, boroughs specified arsenic Cuauhtémoc and Benito Juárez are experiencing the top growth, according to accusation collected by DD360, a financing level for residential projects. Most of the city’s rental proviso is besides concentrated successful areas specified arsenic Miguel Hidalgo, Cuauhtémoc, Cuajimalpa, Benito Juárez, Álvaro Obregón and Coyoacán.

Several factors, specified arsenic caller lodging developments, accessibility and connectivity, eating and amusement options, security, the cost-benefit ratio of rent, and proximity to amenities, lend to the accrued worth and existent property opportunities successful a fixed area. In this sense, Mexico City is undergoing a translation successful its lodging supply. 

Neighborhoods connected the emergence and caller promises

There are caller points of involvement connected the CDMX spot map. “Emerging areas harvester modern infrastructure, prime of beingness and options for antithetic stages of life, from young radical becoming autarkic to families seeking larger and safer spaces,” explains Melisa Gaitán, Director of Growth and Sales astatine Homie.mx.

View of Mexico City's historical  centerAll 16 boroughs of Mexico City person shown an summation successful rental lodging worth implicit the past 5 years. (Evan Wise/Unsplash)

According to the specialized website Propiedades.com, the 16 boroughs of Mexico City person shown an increase in rental lodging worth implicit the past 5 years. However, immoderate areas are experiencing bonzer growth, including Iztacalco (22%), Cuajimalpa (22%), Xochimilco (21%) and Iztapalapa (19%). Additionally, Azcapotzalco and Venustiano Carranza person each seen a 15% increase, on with Magdalena Contreras. 

Iztacalco

Perspective of the Palacio de los Deportes venue located wrong   the Hermanos Rodríguez Autodrome, portion  of the Magdalena Mixhuca Sports City successful  the Granjas México neighborhood.Iztacalco borough is location to the iconic Palacio de los Deportes complex. (Cristian Jair Avila/Wikimedia Commons – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0)

This residential country is characterized by the beingness of the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, the venue for the Mexico City Grand Prix, and the Palacio de los Deportes, a ample indoor stadium built for the 1968 Olympic Games. It is 1 of the oldest neighborhoods successful Mexico City, adjacent predating the metropolis center, and boasts important humanities practice with buildings dating backmost to the 16th century. 

Its booming neighborhoods successful presumption of spot worth see Agrícola Oriental, which has fantabulous connections to the remainder of the metropolis done Eje 4 Sur, Eje 4 Oriente, Eje 5, Eje 6 and Viaducto: In caller years, a ample fig of condominiums person been built there. Agrícola Pantitlán, located southeast of Mexico City International Airport, and Granjas México, characterized by an abundance of tiny shops, warehouses, and flat blocks, besides boast bully security.

Cuajimalpa

In the inheritance  of this photograph  is the Monastery with the fountain successful  the halfway  of the cloister. In addition, you tin  comprehend  the surrounding wood  successful  the Cloister.Cuajimalpa borough is known for its forested hills, which powerfully opposition with the hyper-urbanized country of ​​Santa Fe, the concern hub of Mexico City. (Ximesmp/Wikimedia Commons – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0)

Located to the westbound of the Mexican capital, Cuajimalpa is known for its low, forested hills wrong the Desierto de los Leones National Park, arsenic good arsenic the modern country of Lomas de Santa Fe. Its booming neighborhoods see Lomas de San Pedro, which is known for its prime of life, safety, and family-friendly atmosphere. San Lorenzo Acopilco is surrounded by quality and historical buildings and San Mateo Tlaltenango combines the comforts of municipality beingness with the tranquility of nature, arsenic does San Pablo Chimalpa, which offers a chill clime and scenic forests.

Xochimilco

Trajineras successful  Xochimilco's canalsXochimilco preserves its pre-Hispanic agriculture method, known arsenic chinampería. (DEZALB/Pixabay)

Xochimilco is celebrated for its canals — the past vestiges of the extended proscription strategy created by the Mexicas — and for its chinampas, an intricate strategy of water-based agriculture. Its astir promising neighborhoods are San Lucas Xochimanca and Lomas de Tonalco, some adjacent to earthy quality and charming villages. 

The area’s existent property maturation is intimately linked to its economical development. One vantage of buying present is that spot offerings chiefly dwell of houses alternatively than apartments. Furthermore, the prices of these homes are mostly connected the little extremity of the scale, ranging from 4 to 5 cardinal pesos (US $195.000-$242,000).

Azcapotzalco

AzcapotcalcoAzcapotcalco has a suburban feel, portion retaining large amenties and connections to the metropolis center. (Oasis Hoteles)

Located successful the northwestern portion of Mexico City, this territory is location to Tezozómoc Park, Bicentenario Park, and Arena Mexico City, a venue that hosts a wide assortment of shows, concerts, and sporting events. El Rosario vicinity features a ample attraction of residential units, whose operation adheres to the standards projected by renowned architects Teodoro González de León and Pedro Ramírez Vázquez. Other neighborhoods experiencing an summation successful spot values see Colonia Pasteros Clavería, known for its quiescent situation and proximity to Bicentennial Park, conscionable 10 minutes away, and Colonia Arenal, recognized for its family-friendly ambiance and well-planned municipality design.

Azcapotzalco has hospitals, nationalist and backstage clinics, reliable basal services, respective universities, and is harmless successful general, making it a large existent property enactment extracurricular of the accustomed expat areas.

Magdalena Contreras

Some images of Ajusco taken successful  C.U.Magdalena Contreras is cleanable for those looking for immoderate quality with their broadside of metropolitican capital. (Mr.PMCP/Wikimedia Commons – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0)

This borough is affluent successful earthy quality and is location to the magnificent Dinamos Park and the Cumbres del Ajusco National Park. The San Jerónimo Lídice vicinity is characterized by its prime of beingness and proximity to nature. Las Cruces is besides connected the rise, chiefly owed to its information and pleasant climate.

Like Azcapotzalco, Magdalena Contreras has plentifulness of amenities arsenic good arsenic entree to immoderate of Mexico’s astir exclusive and prestigious planetary schools. The borough besides offers a signficant scope of properties, meaning that whether you’re looking for a regular flat oregon a spacious spot wrong a gated community, Magdalena Contreras is definite to person thing for you.

Venustiano Carranza

Aerial presumption    of Terminal 2 of Mexico City International Airport T2 CDMX.Great transport links and awesome caller developments marque Venustiano Carranza a borough to ticker successful 2025. (Edgor Tovar/Vmzp85/Wikimedia Commons)

This borough is located successful the center-east of Mexico City and is location to the capital’s International Airport. The Civil Aviation Extension vicinity sees caller existent property developments each year, acknowledgment to its affordable prices. Also, Jardín Balbuena is an easy accessible country whose top vantage is its cardinal location; here, you volition find the markets of La Merced and Sonora, arsenic good arsenic the Ciudad Deportiva successful the confederate part.

While immoderate districts of the borough person little than stellar reputations, determination has been extended improvement connected the occidental borderline of the area. Prices for caller apartments successful the region, which borders some the historical halfway and Benito Juárez districts, statesman astatine astir 2 cardinal pesos (US $96,000).

What astir superior gains?

The borough of Venustiano Carranza has experienced the fastest maturation successful spot worth implicit the past 5 years, with a singular 55% increase. According to 4S Real Estate, Iztacalco has achieved 30% superior gains. 

Focusing connected circumstantial neighborhoods, the specialized existent property tract Houm reported that the country with the highest superior gains successful the superior is Del Valle Norte, with an awesome 31%, followed by Narvarte (29%), Roma Norte (28.97%), Escandón (26.69%), and Anzures (17.48%).

Other up-and-coming neighborhoods see Santa María la Ribera, which features galore houses of important humanities worth and was considered 1 of the archetypal modern neighborhoods successful Mexico City. Additionally, Portales, located successful the southeast of the borough of Benito Juárez, is gaining attention.

What different areas successful Mexico City bash you deliberation amusement imaginable for organized growth?

Ana Paula de la Torre is a Mexican writer and collaborator for assorted outlets including Milenio, Animal Político, Vice, Newsweek en Español, Televisa and Mexico News Daily.

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