La Joya Estate, CuernavacaQuinta La Joya, Cuernavaca

Quinta La Joya, Cuernavaca

A spacious, flat, tree-lined garden on a 3,247 m² property, within a private residential development with 24-hour security. In a city built over ravines, a flat lot of this size is uncommon and is what defines this property.

The trees had been here for decades before the house.

Amate trees, palm trees, cypresses, and bougainvillea provide shade and privacy, and make the land feel like a place rather than a lot.

The garden has a sprinkler irrigation system, cistern, and hydropneumatic system.

Set above that garden, 534 m² of Mexican colonial construction on a single level. Main house, social areas, and bungalow: all on one level, with no stairs. Wood-beam and brick-vaulted ceilings, clay tile floors, quarry-stone columns.

The heart of the house is a covered terrace that runs along the garden, with a living room, dining room, bar, and fireplace in one space, and large windows that open completely onto the garden.

Cuernavaca’s mild climate makes it enjoyable all year round.

Inside, a living room with a quarry-stone fireplace beneath a vaulted ceiling and a formal dining room, both with excellent natural light and views of the green areas. The kitchen is traditional Mexican, handmade: a masonry range hood, a talavera tile border painted piece by piece, solid wood cabinetry, and direct access to the service areas. The house is completed by a solarium with a glass vault, a bar beneath an arch, and a storage room.

Six bedrooms, each with a full bathroom and walk-in closet. Three in the main house, with air conditioning. Three more in a separate bungalow, equipped with fans and with their own entrance from the garden, so guests can come and go without crossing the main house. A staff room with three bedrooms and two full bathrooms, in a separate structure.

Two covered parking spaces, with ample room for more cars in the private development.

Heated swimming pool using a boiler and solar panels, in use all year round. The property also has an area with ideal space for developing a tennis court or creating a new recreational area according to the future owner’s needs.

The original construction is more than five decades old and retains its architecture; functional updates were made in 2021. Wheelchair accessible. 85 km from Mexico City via Highway 95D, in the city of eternal spring: the average annual temperature is 21 °C and varies by only a few degrees between the coolest and warmest months.

A house can be built; a garden like this is inherited.