Progreso & the Gulf coast

Thirty minutes north of Mérida, the city stops and the Gulf begins. Warm, shallow, calm water and fishing towns that still feel like fishing towns — Progreso, Chelem, Chicxulub, Telchac, Sisal, Celestún. It is where Mérida families have kept beach houses for generations, and it still costs a fraction of the Riviera Maya.

34 properties here right now, from $87,000 to $2,900,000. The middle of the range is about $350,000.