Living in Contadero

Contadero is one of the historic towns of Cuajimalpa, set on a wooded hillside where the old road climbs toward the Desierto de los Leones national park. Its center is the stone Iglesia de la Inmaculada Concepción, built in the 1920s, and the streets around it keep a village scale that the office towers of nearby Santa Fe never brought here. Renting means mostly apartments in low and mid-rise buildings, with a smaller number of houses on the tree-lined lots higher up the slope. It draws people who want to be minutes from those offices without living surrounded by high-rises.

What to consider before renting

Apartment rents here sit roughly on par with the town center of Cuajimalpa and well below the towers of Bosques de las Lomas. Houses rarely come up for rent, so if you need one, houses for rent in Bosques de las Lomas offers far more. Contadero reaches the rest of Cuajimalpa mainly through Avenida Veracruz, a single artery that shapes daily trips. For more apartments at a similar price, adjacent El Yaqui leans almost entirely to them.