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Puebla shop tenants are staying longer as sales and security improve
Businesses in Puebla are staying in rented shops for up to two years, up from about one year in 2023 and 2024, according to the local real estate professionals’ association.
Rising sales help shops remain in place, and successful businesses may later move to larger spaces in better locations.
Many new businesses seek shops in small shopping plazas, where monthly rent is often 5,000 to 6,000 pesos.
Security is a major reason to choose a plaza, as merchants want 24-hour guards and say cameras alone are not enough to protect them from crime.
The association says small plazas are already plentiful in Puebla and nearby municipalities, so it does not see a need to build more.
Plaza owners are urged to provide good conditions to keep their units occupied throughout the year; a typical plaza has about 20 shops.
Retail tenants in Puebla are staying in commercial units for up to two years, compared with up to one year from 2023 to 2024, according to the Mexican Association of Real Estate Professionals (AMPI).
AMPI said stronger sales and business stability are helping tenants remain longer.
Small shopping plazas are popular with new businesses seeking rents of 5,000 to 6,000 pesos and services such as security.
Merchants are concerned about rising insecurity and seek plazas with guards on duty around the clock.
AMPI’s Puebla chapter president said the city and nearby municipalities already have enough shopping plazas.
- Who
- Retail tenants in Puebla, according to the Mexican Association of Real Estate Professionals (AMPI).
- What
- Tenants are staying in retail units for up to two years, longer than before. AMPI linked this to stronger sales and businesses’ need for security.
- When
- The change follows a period from 2023 to 2024, when tenants stayed for up to one year. The report was published on October 22, 2026.
- Where
- Puebla and nearby municipalities in Mexico.
- Why
- AMPI said stronger sales and business stability help tenants stay longer, while shopping plazas offer security services that individual units may not.
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Businesses stayed in retail units for up to one year before vacating them.
AMPI said the period of occupancy had grown to up to two years.
- Occupancy
- Up to two years, compared with up to one year in 2023–2024
- Small-plaza rent sought by new businesses
- 5,000–6,000 pesos
- Security sought
- Guards on duty 24 hours a day
- Average shopping plaza size
- 20 retail units
- Publication date
- October 22, 2026
What people are saying
Merchants want the peace of mind that there will be surveillance and they will not be victims of crime, as is happening more frequently to businesses that rent standalone units.