Off-plan is a contract, not a house
When you buy something that has not been built, the thing you own on the day you sign is a set of obligations. Everything that matters afterwards – what gets built, to what standard, by when, and what happens if it does not – is in that document or it is nowhere. This is not a reason to avoid off-plan. It is a reason to read differently.
Club Campestre is made up of a number of separate developments rather than one uniform build, so the developer, the specification and the terms can differ from one section to the next inside the same gates. Do not carry an answer from one across to another.
The specification is the whole argument
Renderings show finishes. Contracts list them. Get the written specification schedule and go through it line by line: floors, joinery, kitchen and bathroom fittings, appliances, air conditioning, glazing, water storage and pressure, electrical provision, exterior works, planting and pool. Then ask what is standard, what is an upgrade, and what the developer may substitute.
The phrase to look for is a substitution clause allowing materials of “equivalent quality”. It is normal, and it is also where the gap between the model unit and the delivered one usually appears. Ask who decides what counts as equivalent.
Money and timing
Two questions, asked plainly, and both answered in the contract rather than in conversation: how are payments held between signing and delivery, and what happens if delivery is late. Ask what the remedy is, not whether delays happen.
These are legal questions with real consequences and they are worth your own lawyer rather than mine or the developer’s. Use one who is independent of the sale.
Where the unit sits, and what will be next to it
Ask how many phases remain, where they are, and in what order they will be built. A lot that has an open outlook today may be looking at a construction site for two years and a neighbour’s wall afterwards. The site plan answers this and the brochure usually does not.
Who controls the association, and until when
In a new development the developer typically controls the owners’ association at first. Ask when control transfers, on what trigger, and what the budget and reserve look like at handover. An association handed over without a funded reserve becomes the owners’ problem quickly.
Then compare it honestly against a resale
Off-plan gets you current systems and choices; a resale gets you certainty and a house you can stand in. Both are reasonable. If you have not weighed them side by side, our piece on resale and new construction in Los Cabos sets out the trade. Current sections and listings are on clubcampestre.properties.