Short-stay management in Cartagena
Concierge service in Manzanillo Here is what changes in this sector and what has to be reviewed before activating the property.
Concierge work is about the guest experience in Cartagena, which is a different job from answering the inbox or running the apartment. Its subject is the city: airport transfer, restaurant reservations, island trips, walks through the old town, contact with trusted suppliers, celebrations, groceries stocked ahead of arrival, and in home services when a group asks for them. It works before the trip, asking what the group expects, and during the stay, handling whatever comes up. For the owner it matters for three concrete reasons: a guest who feels looked after treats the property better, asks before improvising, and leaves stronger reviews, which is what sustains visibility across channels. It also acts as a soft filter, because those conversations reveal what kind of stay is coming. What should be settled up front is which concierge services are included and which the guest pays for, and how far a group may use the apartment, so a celebration does not become an event the building will not allow.
What Manzanillo is, and what changes there
Manzanillo names the northern stretch beyond Serena del Mar, where the older coastal village and newer closed developments share the same road. It is a place in transition rather than a finished neighborhood: low-rise housing of local origin, condominium houses behind gates, apartment buildings of modest height, and land still waiting for a project. That mixture is what distinguishes it from the consolidated stretch closer to the airport, where the fabric is almost entirely towers along a single avenue. Anyone deciding here weighs quiet and open horizon against distance and incomplete urban services, since water, wastewater and road upkeep are not uniform across the sector and have to be checked parcel by parcel. For a buyer, the status of a given development, whether it is finished, suspended or only permitted, is a question for current documents and not for a rendering. For a seller, the reference point is less a comparable building than the pace of nearby construction. Renting here suits someone who wants coastline without the density of the peninsula, and each condominium decides its own rules on short stays.
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Mexican buyer
Two currencies are called pesos in this transaction, so always say which one you mean: the contract is signed in Colombian pesos while the money leaves in Mexican pesos. The transfer is converted, enters through the regulated exchange market with its declaración de cambio and is registered as foreign investment with the Banco de la República, which is who to ask about how and in whose name. The poder for signing from abroad is granted before a Colombian consul in the city where you live or before a notario público and then apostilled, and which of the two the Cartagena notarÃa wants is confirmed with that notarÃa and with the CancillerÃa before you fly anywhere to sign. Visa rules and the cédula de extranjerÃa are not the same for every nationality and belong to Migración Colombia: entering without a visa to visit the city and settling in it are two different situations. The tax question to settle with an accountant in each country is whether a treaty exists between Colombia and your country and what it says about rental income and about ganancia ocasional.
The next step
Write to us with what you are looking for and we will send you what is available. Availability, price and the terms of each property are confirmed before any offer.
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We check whether the property is eligible and explain how the channel manager works.