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Baja California Sur · MMXXVI

For the families who come back.

Live Baja for Ten Years.

Hospitality, backed by a house you own.

Read on

01 · The Idea

Time turns a house into part of a family.

Décima takes one exceptional house in Baja California Sur and divides it into seven fractions of real ownership. We staff it, run it for ten years, and in year ten the house is put up for sale and every family receives its share.

A hotel

Gives you service. What you spend is gone at checkout.

A house

Stays with you. And asks you to run it from three thousand miles away.

Décima is both.

The service of a great hotel, in a house that's yours. Your money stays in real estate instead of hotel nights — and in year ten, it comes back to you as your share of the sale.

Not a hotel. Not a rental. A house, for ten years.

A family sharing botana before lunch on a shaded terrace above the sea.

Botana, 2:15 pm.

02 · The House

Eight weeks a year. Enough to know it's yours.

8

stays a year, six nights each

48

nights in your house

7

families.

15.4%

of the house is yours

Eight weeks is the reference. Your year comes as points: choose quieter seasons and you get more weeks; choose the peaks and you get fewer.

Six Full fractions of eight weeks and one Lite of four: the whole year, owned by seven families. Every stay is six nights; the seventh is for deep cleaning and setting the house up just the way you like it.

A heavy wooden door left half open in a whitewashed wall, morning sun, the sea beyond.
Thursday, 7:40 am. Arrival day.

One house. Seven homes.

Your photographs, your books, your wine, the kids' snorkels: stored when you leave, set back in place before you arrive. 

No big suitcases. Your basics stay in Baja: flip-flops, swimsuits, shorts, the sunscreen, the surfboard, the fishing rod. One carry-on, literally: everything else is already in your home.

03 · Hospitality

The house remembers how you take your coffee.

Every house has its own team — a House Captain, a cook and a housekeeper — the same people you already know. One annual fee covers everything: the team, community fees, insurance, property tax, utilities and maintenance.

Mexico, inside the house.

Mexican design, local makers and materials from the region. A kitchen that cooks with what Baja gives that day. A team from here that knows the place and shares it with you.

A House Captain's hands setting a clay cup of coffee on a stone terrace table at sunrise.
A bedroom in late afternoon light, the bed being smoothed by hand, family photographs on the nightstand.
What you don't see is the work.

04 · Ten Years

Nobody knows what they'll want in twenty years. In ten, you do.

Ten years gives you a clear window to plan for. An indefinite commitment makes that harder. Décima gives your family a decade you can actually see.

  1. IThe house opens.
  2. XThe house is sold.
The same terrace photographed ten years apart: a young tree, then a grown one.

Year I

The same terrace photographed ten years apart: a young tree, then a grown one.

Year X

Five percent, in year ten.

We earn a 5% fee on the sale of the house in year ten, and only if we ran it for all ten years. It keeps us there for the whole decade, from the sale of each fraction to the final sale, and it's why we only take houses with a real future.

05 · Who It's For

For the family that already comes back.

You've been coming to Baja for years. What's missing is a house to return to — without tying up the price of a whole house or running a staff from abroad.

You come back for the hospitality only we in Mexico know how to give. You don't want a hotel or just a house. You want the best of both.

Décima isn't built for rental income or the best yield per square foot. If that's what you're after, we'll tell you so ourselves.

Three generations by a pool at dusk, seen from behind: a grandfather with his feet in the water, children mid-jump.
Dawn over the Sea of Cortez from a sand bluff on the East Cape of Baja California Sur.

East Cape, 6:02 am.

06 · Baja California Sur

One place, known deeply.

One state, one team, minutes from every house. We know which fisherman goes out at six, when the whales arrive, and which chef is worth bringing home. Every house is made with Mexican makers, cooks with local producers and is run by people from here.

The house is where the day starts.

Tell your House Captain what you feel like, and the day is arranged — by people who live here and know who to call.

  • A boat at six, and the catch on your table at two.
  • The dunes at sunset, on foot or on four wheels.
  • Dinner on the sand, with a fire and the whole family.
  • An afternoon in Todos Santos: galleries, a long lunch, the Pacific.
  • A night camping on an island in the Sea of Cortez.
  • Whales from the boat, in winter.
  • A surf lesson for the kids at Cerritos.
  • Golf on a course above the sea — the tee time, the cart and the ride, all arranged for you.
  • Or nothing at all: the terrace, a book, the sea.

That's why we only work in Baja California Sur. Knowing one place this well is the service.

A fresh fish on a wooden board in a house kitchen, a cook's hands, limes and sea salt in a clay bowl.
Out at six, on the table at two.
A humpback whale's tail rising from the water in the distance.
From the terrace, some mornings.

07 · Compare

Not a hotel. Not a club. A house.

DécimaCo-ownHotelVillaClub
Real ownership of the house●●———
Experts in the area●—◐◐◐
Same house and same team every visit●◐———
Staff dedicated to the house●◐◐●◐
A known end date, prepared from day one●◐———
Something is yours at the end●●———

● yes · ◐ partly or varies · — no · Co-own = typical co-ownership · Hotel = five-star hotel · Villa = staffed villa rental · Club = destination club

Comparisons are general, for orientation only.

Casa 01 · Los Cabos

Casa 01.

Our first house is being prepared.

Families on our list see it first.

Join the list
Dinner on the beach at sunset: a long table with candles in the sand, the sea and the mountains beyond.

Dinner on the beach, 7:30 pm.

08 · The Name

Why Décima.

A décima is a ten-line stanza; in Mexico its great voice is Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. In a décima, no line is wasted. Each year, every family keeps one line; in year ten the lines become your Décima, bound in a box of parota wood.

Knowing it ends is what makes you live it. A house you own forever is easy to postpone: there is always next year. A house with ten years asks you to come back — to enjoy what you've built, with the people you built it for.

Décima isn't about having more. It's about living what you have.

Ten years. Ten lines. Your Décima.

An example · The Adams Family Décima

We watched the whales cross the bay,

Then brought our grandparents one spring,

We heard our youngest daughter sing,

And swam until the end of day.

We watched our oldest sail away,

One Christmas gathered by the fire,

One summer stayed a little higher,

We danced beneath the desert moon,

Ten years, we learned, can pass too soon,

Yet every year became a fire.

Casa del Alba · MMXXVI — MMXXXVI

09 · Questions

Questions.

On paper, you own a fraction of a house. In practice, it's something else. A fractional sells you time in a property. Décima gives you ten years of living Baja: the same house, the same team and your own things waiting for you every time you come back. We live in Baja California Sur, we know the place and its people, and we open it to you — the fisherman at six, the chef worth bringing home, the beach no one tells you about. It isn't a fractional. It's your house. It's Baja, for ten years.

Because there's nowhere else quite like it. Here the desert walks straight into the sea: mountains on one side, the Sea of Cortez on the other, and the Pacific a short drive away. The light is hard and white at noon, carmine at sunset, blue at night, and the sky is full of stars. It has old mission towns and fishing villages, Todos Santos and its galleries, ranches in the sierra and beaches with no one on them. The sea is alive — whales in winter, sea lions on the islands, fish at every hour. And it's still Mexico in the deepest sense: the food, the people, the way a meal turns into an afternoon. We chose one place in the world and decided to know it completely. This is it.

Each Full fraction comes with 1,000 points a year — the equivalent of eight weeks in mid season. Quieter weeks cost fewer points and the peaks cost more, so you decide how to spend your year: around thirteen weeks if you come only in the low season, or around five if you choose the peak weeks, which are capped so no one takes them all. Once a year, the seven families choose the next year's weeks together, on one day, in three rounds; the order rotates every year. You can join two or three weeks into one stay, and trade stays with the other families.

The common co-ownership model sells one-eighth of a house: about five or six weeks a year. Décima gives you eight weeks as a reference — and with points you can stretch them into more time in the quieter months, or spend them on the weeks that matter most. Your important week every year, a long season with your family, short escapes in between.

Exchange them for stays in private homes around the world through an international home-exchange network, or let our team host guests we screen ourselves. Never open platforms.

Once all seven fractions are placed, and they run 120 months from that day. Until then the house is already open, and the first families are already using it.

After twelve months you may sell your fraction to whomever you choose, and we help you place it. What you sell is complete: the remaining stays and your share of the house in year ten.

Every house has three people of its own — a House Captain, a cook and a housekeeper. They're from Baja, they know the place. What ties it all together is our 5% fee in year ten: part of it goes to the people who ran the house, in proportion to the years they stayed. A cook who knows a real reward is waiting at the end of the decade wants to stay in that house — and so do we. Our incentives are aligned from day one: the fee at the end only comes if the house was cared for, and run beautifully, all ten years.

In Mexico, foreigners own property near the coast through a fideicomiso: a trust held by a Mexican bank, the standard and long-established structure. The house sits in that trust, and the families hold the rights to it — the real estate is theirs, not ours. Décima doesn't own the house. In parallel, our own company operates it under a management agreement.

The whole cycle: the sale of each fraction, ten years of hospitality and management, and the final sale in year ten. From the start we choose only houses that are a true fit for Décima and have real prospects of appreciating over the next ten years.

If you knew it would never end, would you have enjoyed it the same?