Quintana Roo Hands Property Titles to 460 Families in Cancún After Decades of Irregular Settlement

Cancún, Quintana Roo — A total of 460 families in the municipality of Benito Juárez who spent more than three decades living in irregular settlements received property titles this week, part of a land regularization program run by state and municipal governments.

The ceremony took place at the Malecón Tajamar, where Governor Mara Lezama Espinosa and Benito Juárez Mayor Ana Paty Peralta led the event. Beneficiaries came from neighborhoods including Salem, Bethel, Pueblo Nuevo, Cuna Maya, Guayas, Los Pinos, Rivera II, Real del Bosque, Tropical, Tucanes, Agua Azul, San Alfredo, San Ignacio, Santos, Tarzán and Tierra y Libertad, among others.

During the ceremony, the governor handed the first deeds to Primavera de la Cruz, a resident of Cuna Maya, and Martín Avelino Reyes, of Los Pinos.

Lezama Espinosa said the documents give legal certainty to families who for years faced uncertainty over the ownership of their homes.

The governor reported that 1,642 deeds have been delivered so far, along with eight completed subdivisions and the full regularization of 27 neighborhoods, while two others now have basic services.

She urged beneficiaries to safeguard their deeds and not hand them over to third parties, recalling the lengthy process they went through to obtain legal title to their properties.

Peralta said the regularization process began during Lezama’s tenure as mayor and was later strengthened with the creation of the Instituto de Regularización y Vivienda (Institute for Regularization and Housing).

The mayor said the delivery of the 460 deeds represents progress for families that spent years in irregular status and now hold a document legally recognizing ownership of their homes.

Councilman Samuel Mollinedo said 27 neighborhoods have been regularized to date and another 124 are in process. He also highlighted infrastructure investments in settlements that previously lacked basic services.

According to Mollinedo, the municipality has spent more than 700 million pesos on drainage, sewerage, water networks, absorption wells, electrification, street lighting, signage, paving, parks and sidewalks in these areas.

The deed handover is part of efforts to regularize settlements that remained outside the law for years, though the process still leaves dozens of neighborhoods in the municipality pending.

Also taking part in the event were Verónica Lezama Espinosa, honorary president of DIF Quintana Roo; Nora Garza, director of the Institute for Regularization and Housing; and Mariann González Pliego, director of the Public Registry of Property and Commerce.