Beautiful Belle Epoque Colonial to Remodel for Sale in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico

Beautiful Belle Epoque Colonial to Remodel in Merida

This high-ceilinged 2400 ft2 and 8-room beautiful old colonial in need of remodeling is located in Merida's MOST SOUGHT-AFTER NEIGHBORHOOD: 2 blocks from the Merida English Library, I block from Santiago park with its restaurants, food market, movie theatre, and every other store you need, 4 blocks from the festivals of Santa Lucia, and 6 from the museums, opera house, theaters and restaurants of the main Cathedral Square.
It is also 30 minutes from the beaches of Progreso with its wonderful fish restaurants and summer festivals. Also 15 minutes and a $6 taxi ride to Merida’s modern airport, and 15 minutes from the US stores of Sam’s, Sears, Costco, and Walmart as well as several modern shopping malls and cine complexes.
Right now there are 4 rooms in the front, a large room in the center facing the interior courtyard, 2 more rooms and a bathroom, and a 600 ft2 garden with high walls at the rear of the 3000 ft2 lot. Remodeling will bring it to a 2-3 bedroom & 3 bathroom house with entrance hall/library, living room, office, large kitchen/dining, large storage room, arched covered terrace, garden, storage and pool equipment bodega, and 8 ft wide by 30 foot long pool.
We can provide the architectural and engineering services you would require to remodel the house, as well as follow-up maintenance and management services after the house is finished should you want to rent it out long term ($1,500 monthly) or as a tourist rental ($250 a night low season and $450 a night peak high).
DIARIO YUCATAN NEWSPAPER – March 2010 – YUCATAN & MERIDA BUSINESS STATISTICS
The numbers and economic analysis for 2009 are in from the National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Infomatics. The State of Yucatan is rocking along with a business growth rate of 37.4%, leading Baja California Sur, Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Guerrero in 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th place. Following far behind and in the last 3 places are Nuevo Leon, Mexico City, and Chihuahua. Yucatan has also the 3rd highest rate of employment and participation in IMSS or the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social.
Merida is the driving force behind much of the growth throughout the state as well as funding 42 free cultural and artistic events each week, as well as other projects throughout the other municipalities to ensure that tourism continues to grow at a constant rate.
Add to all of that the fact that the State of Yucatan is the only state in Mexico with zero (!!!!) drug-related murders last year. Add that Merida is the safest large city in the country, has world class medical care facilities and personnel (approved, if ever necessary, to treat an American President.