Review — Riviera Maya

Where two sources disagree, or where one name might be two companies, this atlas records both readings rather than picking one quietly. 25 open questions, 2 resolved. Entity strings stay separate until a source joins them — a wrong merge is harder to see than a duplicate.

1. Name clashOpen

   Is the "Mayer Davis Studio" credited on SLS Marina Beach the same firm as Meyer Davis, which is credited on two Los Cabos projects?

   • Mayer Davis Studio
   • Meyer Davis
   One firm, spelled two ways

   Meyer Davis is a New York interiors practice that works on branded residences in Mexico; no firm called Mayer Davis Studio is otherwise attested. Trade coverage of the Mandarin Oriental Kanai residences also credits Meyer Davis in the region.

   forbes.com ↗

   Recorded as published

   Inmobilia's own release for the tower spells the studio "Mayer Davis Studio". The atlas records entity names as they appear on the page that was opened and does not correct spellings, because a tidied name silently merges two records that may be distinct.

   info.inmobilia.mx ↗
2. Name clashOpen

   Are GIM Desarrollos and GIM Holdings the same entity, and which is the one that owns the Kanai land?

   • GIM Desarrollos
   • GIM Holdings
   • Grupo Alhel
   GIM Desarrollos is the developer

   Mandarin Oriental's own announcement states the resort is being developed by GIM Desarrollos. Coverage of the St. Regis Kanai names ALHEL and GIM Desarrollos as the master plan's developers.

   press.mandarinoriental.com ↗

   GIM Holdings is the parent

   Forbes names GIM Holdings as the developer of the Mandarin Oriental residences and identifies Abraham Metta Cohen as its CEO. No source opened states the relationship between the two strings.

   forbes.com ↗
3. Name clashOpen

   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?

   • Desarrolladora Arca
   • RMLA, Oleum Joint Venture, S. de R.L. de C.V.
   • IMI Worldwide Properties
   Arca develops

   The launch release is issued by Desarrolladora Arca and names IMI Worldwide Properties as its sales team.

   prweb.com ↗

   The joint venture holds the licence

   The residences site names RMLA, Oleum Joint Venture, S. de R.L. de C.V. as the entity using the Ritz-Carlton marks under licence. Both strings are recorded; neither is merged into the other.

   rcrrivieramaya.com ↗
4. Name clashOpen

   Is FHP Villas Lote 2, S.A. de C.V. a vehicle of RLH Properties, or an independent developer inside Mayakoba?

   • FHP Villas Lote 2, S.A. de C.V.
   • RLH Properties
   Independent developer

   Mayakoba's own Fairmont pages state that FHP Villas Lote 2, S.A. de C.V. operates independently and is solely responsible for the ownership, development and operation of the Residences.

   mayakoba.com ↗

   Inside the RLH estate

   The Mayakoba enclave and its Rosewood, Fairmont and Banyan Tree assets are reported as owned by RLH Properties. No opened source states how the two entities relate.

   luxurytravelmagazine.com ↗
5. Figure conflictOpen

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

   127

   The developer's own launch release states 127 furnished residences from $1.824 million. This is the figure carried in the record.

   prweb.com ↗

   137

   The residences site details four collections — 15 Beachfront Estates, 8 Beachfront Casitas, 42 Mangrove Cottages and 72 Grand Residences — which sum to 137.

   rcrrivieramaya.com ↗
6. Figure conflictOpen

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

   220 acres

   The developer's launch release places the hotel and residences among 220 acres with 1,600 feet of private shoreline.

   prweb.com ↗

   180 acres

   The residences site describes a 180-acre site on the Yucatan coastline.

   rcrrivieramaya.com ↗
7. Figure conflictOpen

   Does Mandarin Oriental Residences Kanai comprise 49 residences or 50?

   49

   The June 2026 first-look on the released renderings states 49 branded residences of three to seven bedrooms. As the most recent source, this is the figure carried in the record.

   forbes.com ↗

   Fifty

   Mandarin Oriental's 2024 announcement of the resort states fifty branded residences with a resident-only beach club.

   press.mandarinoriental.com ↗
8. Figure conflictOpen

   Does the St. Regis Costa Mujeres residential component comprise 80 residences or 84?

   80

   The developer's own site states the complex holds 160 suites and 80 residences. This is the figure carried in the record.

   abliving.com ↗

   84

   Trade coverage of the launch describes a residential area of 84 exclusive homes.

   hospitalitynet.org ↗
9. Location unpinnedOpen

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

   Sources give only a direction

   The 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.

   rcrrivieramaya.com ↗

   The coordinate is inferred, not a pin

   The 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.
10. ScopeOpen

    Are the five SLS records in Cancún five projects, or five towers of one development on a single parcel?

    One parcel: the lot designation is shared

    The OpenStreetMap record for SLS Cancun Hotel & Residences gives its address as "Novo Cancún Torre 1" Mz 27 Lt 1-02 UC-20 UP-P Secc., Novo Cancun. SLS Ocean Beach Residences' own site gives its address as Av. Bonampak, Esq. Puerto Cancún, Mza. 27 Lote 1-02, UC-1. Both name Manzana 27, Lote 1-02, and the OpenStreetMap entry numbers the first as Torre 1.

    slsoceanbeachresidences.com ↗

    The operator counts towers, not developments

    Ennismore's launch release states that SLS Bahia Beach "will be the fourth luxury tower of the successful SLS brand in Cancun, along with SLS Harbour Beach and SLS Marina Beach towers, which will together form an exclusive community in Novo Cancun", and that "together the four skyscrapers will form Novo Cancun's most exclusive residential community". The operator's own unit of account is the tower.

    ennismore.com ↗

    The towers are separately specified and separately controlled

    Each carries its own unit count (104 at Marina Beach, 111 at Bahia Beach, 92 at Ocean Beach), its own interiors firm (Piero Lissoni, Mayer Davis Studio, Sofia Aspe, Bernardi Peschard) and its own stage. Ownership diverges too: SLS Cancun Hotel & Residences is developed by Inmobilia alone, while the four later towers are a Related Group · Inmobilia · U-Calli partnership. Collapsing them to one record would discard those distinctions.

    relatedgroup.com ↗

    The community field carries two names for the same ground

    Inmobilia's project page places SLS Cancun in "the planned community of Puerto Cancun" and SLS Ocean Beach's site gives a Puerto Cancún address, while Ennismore places Harbour Beach, Marina Beach and Bahia Beach in Novo Cancún. OpenStreetMap files Novo Cancún as sitting on Boulevard Puerto Cancún, so the two names describe nested areas rather than separate sites. The pack records each project's community as its own sources give it.

    inmobilia.mx ↗
11. Location unpinnedOpen

    Thirteen projects carry district-level coordinates rather than pins, because pre-construction sites are not mapped.

    Shared pins are real clustering, not error

    SLS Harbour Beach and SLS Marina Beach carry the Novo Cancún district node, having previously been placed on the node OpenStreetMap identifies as the SLS Cancun hotel building itself; Mayaliah and AZULIK Residences both state Aldea Zamá as their location and share that district node. Where projects overlap on the map they genuinely overlap on the ground.

    Two are proxies to an adjacent feature

    Mondrian Residences Cancun is placed on Boulevard Kukulcan because Bay View Grand is not mapped; the Ritz-Carlton Punta Nizuc is placed on the Club Med Cancun node, the nearest mapped feature on the same point. Both are proxies to an adjacent feature, not the parcel itself.

    Costa Mujeres and Aldea Nizuc

    The three additional AB Living residential components share the Playa Mujeres district coordinate already used for the St. Regis; Aldea Nizuc carries the Punta Nizuc stretch of Blvd. Kukulcán, its published address being a kilometre marker.
12. Location unpinnedOpen

    Where is the Nobu Tulum site? The project carries no coordinate at all.

    No source states a site

    Nobu Hospitality's announcement with RCD Hotels gives the location only as Tulum, Mexico, on the Riviera Maya, and describes 50 beachside residences beside a 200-key hotel. No street, beach, kilometre marker or parcel is named.

    hotelmanagement.net ↗

    Left null rather than approximated

    The project is recorded as planned, which is the one stage the schema allows to carry no coordinates. Rather than drop a pin somewhere on the Tulum beach road, the field is empty and the gap is stated here. It is the only project in the corridor with no location at all.
13. Source not openedOpen

    Who sponsors Viceroy Residences Playa del Carmen behind the Banco Monex trust?

    • Banco Monex, S.A., Institución de Banca Múltiple, Monex Grupo Financiero
    • Related Group
    • SIMCA Desarrollos
    The trust is named; the sponsor is not

    The project's own site names Banco Monex as trustee of fideicomiso F/12238 and states the project is not owned, developed or sold by Viceroy Hotels, LLC. It names no sponsor.

    viceroyplayadelcarmen.com ↗

    Trade coverage names Related Group and SIMCA

    A trade article attributes the project to Jorge M. Perez and The Related Group with SIMCA Desarrollos, at 375 residences on 25 acres from about $370,000. That article has not been opened, so those figures are not written into the record and Viceroy is not counted in Related Group's platform reach.
14. Source not openedOpen

    Who develops ZONNA, and does an Archipelago International operating agreement make it a branded residence on the same footing as the hotel-group projects?

    • IN-CAP
    • Archipelago International
    • Sordo Madaleno
    Developer brand with an operator attached

    The project site names Sordo Madaleno, Martel, Archipelago and The Agency as the team but no developing entity. The residential brand is the project's own, not a hotel group's, so it is classed as a developer brand.

    zonna.mx ↗

    IN-CAP is named in regional press

    Coverage of an alliance between Inversiones Capital and Archipelago International names IN-CAP as the developer. That article has not been opened; the ownership fields rest on it and need confirming.
15. Thin recordOpen

    Do the St. Regis Residences at Kanai exist as a launched product, and how many are there?

    • GIM Desarrollos
    Listed by the master plan

    Kanai's own site lists "The Residences at St. Regis Kanai, Riviera Maya" with the status Coming Soon, alongside the operating 124-key St. Regis Kanai Resort.

    kanai.mx ↗

    Nothing else is published

    No launch release, unit count, price or delivery date was found. Ownership is inherited from Kanai master-plan sourcing rather than a project-specific source. The record is carried so the project is not lost, and is flagged rather than dropped.
16. Thin recordOpen

    Is the Banyan Tree Residences collection at Mayakoba still selling, and how large was it?

    • RLH Properties
    Still listed by brokers

    Brokerage material reports two full-ownership villas remaining, from $1,150,000 to $1.6M, and describes a collection of 23 residences. The 23 figure is not confirmed against a primary page and is not written into the unit count.

    trekbroker.com ↗

    No longer on the enclave's own list

    Mayakoba's residences page now lists only Fairmont Residences, Fairmont Heritage Place and Rosewood Residences. No Banyan Tree offering appears on it.

    mayakoba.com ↗
17. ScopeOpen

    Does Chable have branded residences at Maroma in this corridor?

    • Chablé Hotels
    Not in this corridor

    Chable's September 2025 expansion into branded residences names three communities: Costalegre in Jalisco, Valle de Guadalupe in Baja California, and Yucatan near Merida. None is at Maroma.

    vkpr.com ↗

    The seed attributed it here

    The guide this corridor was seeded from carries a Maroma card stating that Chable announced branded residences in 2025, alongside Belmond. Neither Maroma property has a residence product this pass could source; both are recorded as rejected candidates.
18. Figure conflictOpen

    Four projects were announced to open on dates that have now passed, with no source confirming delivery.

    Announced dates have passed

    St. Regis Costa Mujeres was scheduled for early 2026, Mondrian Tulum for 2025, Mayaliah Tulum for 2024 and Nobu Tulum for the first quarter of 2025.

    Each is held at the more conservative stage

    No opened source confirms any of the four has delivered, so none is recorded as operating. Stage is set from the most recent source rather than the announcement, which means these four will move as soon as a post-opening source is found.
19. ScopeOpen

    Two candidate projects were neither confirmed nor cleanly rejected.

    • The Fives Hotels & Residences
    • AZULIK
    The Fives Downtown, Playa del Carmen

    Sold as full-ownership lofts, garden villas and penthouses under a developer brand with a rental-management programme. Whether that is a branded residence on the same footing as a hotel-group licence, or a condo-hotel, was not settled against a primary source.

    NAUTICA Cancun

    A brokerage comparison index lists it as operating under the AZULIK brand with delivery in August 2028. It appears on no AZULIK or developer page found in this pass.
20. Name clashOpen

    Should Sordo Madaleno be one platform nationally, or stay separate from the SOMA group entry that carries it in Los Cabos?

    • Sordo Madaleno
    • SOMA · FibraSOMA · Sordo Madaleno
    • Sordo Madaleno Design
    Separate: different roles

    Here Sordo Madaleno appears purely as architect of record on three projects it does not own. In Los Cabos the ledger entry is SOMA · FibraSOMA · Sordo Madaleno, 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 practice

    The architecture practice is the same firm in both corridors. Left separate, the planned national view will show Sordo Madaleno twice and understate its true reach across Mexico. The near-duplicate scan already flags the pair on every build.
21. ScopeOpen

    Is Costa Mujeres to Tulum one corridor, or two?

    One readable stretch

    Roughly 140 km of one coast in one state, running north to south across five sub-markets that a reader can hold at once. Ownership runs across the whole of it: Inmobilia reaches from Puerto Cancun to Tulum.

    A natural cut exists

    Cancun and north is urban, high-rise and dominated by the Puerto Cancun towers; Kanai and south is resort master plans on jungle beachfront. Splitting there would also separate the Marriott and Accor concentrations cleanly.
22. ScopeOpen

    Does Almare, a Luxury Collection Resort on Isla Mujeres sell branded residences?

    • AB Living Group
    • Luxury Collection
    A residence project

    A branded-residence guide lists Almare, The Luxury Collection Residences on Isla Mujeres as under construction.

    guide.lprluxury.com ↗

    Hotel only

    The Marriott signing release describes a 105-room adults-only resort with no residential component, and the developer's own portfolio page for Almare describes rooms and resort facilities only.

    webwire.com ↗
23. Figure conflictOpen

    Is the SHA Tower listed for 2026 at Costa Mujeres the residential building that opened in January 2024, or a second one?

    • AB Living Group
    • SHA Residences
    A second building

    The developer's Costa Mujeres sequence lists the SHA Wellness Clinic for 2024 and a SHA Tower for 2026 as separate entries alongside the St. Regis, JW Marriott and W residences.

    hospitalitynet.org ↗

    The same building

    Design coverage describes 35 residences in a private residential building inside the clinic that opened in January 2024; no source opened describes a second residential tower.

    cladglobal.com ↗
24. Figure conflictOpen

    Does the W at Costa Mujeres open in 2026 or 2027?

    • AB Living Group
    • Marriott
    2026

    The Marriott–AB Living signing release gives a 2026 opening for the 300-room W all-inclusive and its 10 residences.

    webwire.com ↗

    2027

    The developer's Costa Mujeres sequence places the W Residences at 2027, after the St. Regis residences, the SHA Tower and the JW Marriott residences in 2026.

    hospitalitynet.org ↗
25. Name clashOpen

    Are Inmobilia and Pulso Inmobiliario related?

    • Inmobilia
    • Pulso Inmobiliario
    Two unrelated developers

    Inmobilia is the Mérida-founded master developer behind seven projects in this corridor; Pulso Inmobiliario is named on its supplier's project page as the developer of Aldea Nizuc. No page opened names both.

    cemex.com ↗

    Flagged by string similarity only

    The near-duplicate scan pairs them because one string contains the other after normalisation, the same false positive it produces for composite party strings.
26. Name clashResolved

    Should Ennismore-run brands record Ennismore or Accor as the operator?

    • Ennismore
    • Accor
    Ennismore runs the flag

    Ennismore's own site lists its family of brands as 21c Museum Hotels, 25hours, Delano, Gleneagles, Hyde, JO&JOE, Mama Shelter, Mondrian, Morgans Originals, SLS, SO/, The Hoxton, TRIBE and Working From_. SLS and Mondrian are on that list.

    ennismore.com ↗

    Accor owns the majority of Ennismore

    Ennismore is the joint venture that holds Accor's lifestyle portfolio, majority-owned by Accor with founder Sharan Pasricha holding a substantial minority position. It is a distinct company, not a division label.

    press.accor.com ↗

    Fairmont, MGallery and Faena are not Ennismore brands

    None appears on Ennismore's brand list, so those three record Accor as operator. Raffles likewise. The split is not a judgement call — it follows Ennismore's own published roster.

    ennismore.com ↗

    Resolved: Operator records the company that runs the flag, operator group records the parent. SLS and Mondrian record Ennismore; Fairmont, Fairmont Heritage Place, MGallery and Faena record Accor. Both roll up to the Accor group, so the national view aggregates correctly while the Ennismore layer stays visible. Los Cabos was corrected in the same pass: Delano is on Ennismore's published brand list and now records Ennismore, not Accor. Raffles is not an Ennismore brand and is unchanged.

27. ScopeResolved

    Does TROBBU Tulum belong in this corridor?

    • TRATER
    • TROBBU
    It belongs

    TRATER sells fractional co-ownership of a three-level, two-bedroom villa in Tulum under the same TROBBU brand recorded in the Yucatán corridor.

    trater.mx ↗

    Too thin to record

    The destination page states no villa count, address, price, construction stage or delivery date, and no other page naming the project was opened.

    Resolved: Recorded. The operator's investment site states the villa type and a fraction price for Tulum, which is enough for a record; the villa count, address and delivery date are still unstated and the project carries no map pin. TROBBU Los Cabos was recorded in the Los Cabos corridor on the same basis. Mahahual, San Miguel de Allende and Madrid sit outside every mapped corridor.