Branded ResidencesRegister

Playa del Carmen · Mayakoba

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Riviera Maya

Under construction

The residences

The name licensed to this project and carried on the building. A brand is not a company: it holds no title, builds nothing and runs nothing.
The Ritz-Carlton
The business the brand comes from — hotel, fashion, design, automotive, restaurant, club, or a developer’s own name.
Hotel
How many separately titled homes this project sells, counting every kind it sells. Where it sells more than one kind, each is named and its own count given.
127
The kinds of home offered — villas, condos, penthouses, lots — and how they break down. Not how many, and not what interest is sold.
Beachfront estates, beachfront casitas, mangrove cottages and grand residences
The published asking range or entry price.
USD from 1,824,000
When the project was first made public.
5 Jun 2024
When its residences were first released for sale.
The June 2024 release states only that "sales and construction will begin this year" — a plan, not the act. The project's own site carries no dates.
When ground was broken on the site.
Same sentence — "sales and construction will begin this year". No opened page states a groundbreaking date.
Every handover date the project has been given, oldest first.
2026
When the residences were handed over to buyers.
The project's own site carries no dates at all, and no opened page records any residence as delivered.
4 fields not recorded

What the brand does · Master plan · What you buy · Setting

Not recorded is a statement about this register: no sourced value is held for these. It is never a claim that anyone withheld them.

Who is behind it

The company that runs properties under this project’s brand and sets the standards carried under it. It need not own the name — who owns it is the brand licensor.
Marriott International
The party that promotes the project and carries it through to delivery. May also hold title to part of it — being one does not make it the other.
Desarrolladora Arca
The practice or individual who designed the building.
Sordo Madaleno
The party the brand name was licensed to for this project. A contract for a name — it carries no title and no duty to run the property.
RMLA, Oleum Joint Venture, S. de R.L. de C.V.
4 fields not recorded

Building manager · Holds title to · Interior design · Main contractor

Not recorded is a statement about this register: no sourced value is held for these. It is never a claim that anyone withheld them.

How this project is structuredThe Ritz-Carlton brand's entry to the Riviera Maya, north of Playa del Carmen. RMLA, Oleum Joint Venture, S. de R.L. de C.V. holds the Ritz-Carlton licence; Desarrolladora Arca develops. First phase is scheduled for 2026.

Sources

rcrrivieramaya.com
Project site — licensee named and Ritz-Carlton disclaimerAccessed 23 Jul 2026
www.prweb.com/releases/desarrolladora-arca-launches-…
Developer release — developer and architect namedAccessed 23 Jul 2026

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5 open questionsabout this project

Points this record cannot yet settle, with the sources on each side. Both readings are published rather than one being chosen quietly.

What is the relationship between Desarrolladora Arca and RMLA, Oleum Joint Venture, S. de R.L. de C.V. at the Ritz-Carlton Riviera Maya?

Projects
  • Arca developsThe launch release is issued by Desarrolladora Arca and names IMI Worldwide Properties as its sales team.source ↗
  • The joint venture holds the licenceThe residences site names RMLA, Oleum Joint Venture, S. de R.L. de C.V. as the entity using the Ritz-Carlton brand under licence. Both strings are recorded; neither is merged into the other.source ↗
Riviera Maya · Name clash · open

Does the Ritz-Carlton Residences, Riviera Maya comprise 127 residences or 137?

Projects
  • 127The developer's own launch release states 127 furnished residences from $1.824 million. This is the figure carried in the record.source ↗
  • 137The residences site details four collections — 15 Beachfront Estates, 8 Beachfront Casitas, 42 Mangrove Cottages and 72 Grand Residences — which sum to 137.source ↗
Riviera Maya · Source conflict · open

Is the Ritz-Carlton Riviera Maya site 220 acres or 180 acres?

Projects
  • 220 acresThe developer's launch release places the hotel and residences among 220 acres with 1,600 feet of private shoreline.source ↗
  • 180 acresThe residences site describes a 180-acre site on the Yucatan coastline.source ↗
Riviera Maya · Source conflict · open

Where exactly is the Ritz-Carlton Riviera Maya site? No source opened names the locality.

Projects
  • Sources give only a directionThe developer's release and the residences site place the project on an unspoiled stretch just north of Playa del Carmen, previously held by one family, with 1,600 feet of crescent shoreline. Neither names a beach, a kilometre marker or a municipality.source ↗
  • The coordinate is inferred, not a pinThe pin sits on the Xcalacoco stretch, the undeveloped beachfront immediately north of Playa del Carmen, on the strength of the description alone. A Plus Code circulating on brokerage listings decodes to a point roughly 10 km south-west and inland, inconsistent with a beachfront site, and was not used.
Riviera Maya · Location unconfirmed · open

Should Sordo Madaleno be one company record nationally, or stay separate from the SOMA composite that carries it in Los Cabos?

Projects
  • Separate: different rolesHere Sordo Madaleno appears purely as architect of record on projects it does not own. In Los Cabos the credits carry SOMA · FibraSOMA · Sordo Madaleno as one record, a developer, architect and REIT combination that owns what it builds. Merging them would credit an architecture practice with ownership it does not hold.
  • One nationally: same practiceThe architecture practice is the same firm wherever it is credited. Left separate, the national registers show Sordo Madaleno twice and understate its footprint across Mexico; the combined record is credited on no project at all, because each of its three members is credited on its own.
Riviera Maya · Name clash · open