Casa de Piedra

Mid-morning at the Playacar bird aviary. Playacar Fase II is the gated community where the residents take their late-morning walk on the cart paths and the manicured paths through the tropical jungle — the residents back from the beach, the kids on bicycles, the day in its slow rhythm.

Playacar is the gated residential community just south of downtown Playa del Carmen — divided into two phases, both organized around private security, manicured paths through tropical jungle, and a residential character distinct from the urban pulse of Quinta Avenida. Phase 1, smaller and closer to downtown, is one of the few areas with beachfront houses in the Riviera Maya. Phase 2 is the larger section, centered around the eighteen-hole Playacar Golf Club designed by Robert von Hagge, with tennis courts, a bird aviary park, and small shopping. The community pairs proximity to Quinta Avenida (five minutes by car) with the residential calm of a gated neighborhood. Playacar reads as the part of Playa del Carmen the residents who came for the gated-community lifestyle chose deliberately.

Inside Casa de Piedra, the architecture takes the gated-community setting seriously. Each penthouse spans 2,317 square feet across layouts drawn for indoor-outdoor living: private rooftop terrace, plunge pool, full-height openings that pull the jungle canopy into the living spaces, kitchens scaled for someone who actually cooks rather than reheats. The materials are honest — wood, stone, glass — and the building's amenity floor supports the kind of community that takes Playacar seriously. The architecture stays out of the way of the fairways and the trees the building was drawn around.

Forty-two residences in total, four still available, immediate delivery. Entry pricing begins at $13,372,800 MXN. Casa de Piedra sits in Playacar Fase II at the rare scale of a penthouse residence inside the gated community — a footprint that the denser downtown projects simply cannot replicate. For the buyer who came to Playa del Carmen for the gated-community lifestyle at the penthouse scale, this is one of the most considered addresses in the neighborhood.