Start here: we only operate in the Monterrey metro area
This is worth saying before anything else, because the search that brings people to this page is often about a different city. We rent one furnished house in Guadalupe, Nuevo León, in the Monterrey metro area. We do not have inventory in León, Querétaro, Guadalajara, Mexico City or anywhere else, and we are not a booking network that will place you there.
What follows is the general shape of the market as it looks from inside it, so that a briefing you send to a host in another city asks the right questions. If your placement is in the Monterrey metro area, the rest of this site is directly useful; if not, take the questions and leave the rest.
Why "corporate housing" does not mean one thing here
In the US, corporate housing usually implies a recognisable product: a serviced apartment, a national operator, a standard lease-like agreement, and housekeeping on a schedule. In Mexico the same phrase covers a much wider range, from aparthotels attached to hotel groups down to individual owners renting a furnished house directly to a company.
That is not a quality gap. It means the category is defined locally, by what the local demand looks like — and industrial demand, university demand and tourism demand each produce very different inventory.
What actually changes between cities
Inventory type changes most. A city whose demand comes from manufacturing tends to have whole houses and small apartment blocks near the industrial corridors; a city whose demand is corporate-office driven leans towards serviced apartments in a few business districts.
Lead time changes with the local event and industrial calendar. A single large expo, a major match, or a scheduled plant shutdown can absorb a city's furnished inventory for a specific fortnight, and a request that was easy in one month is impossible in another.
What does not change is the tax paperwork. Invoicing is federal, so a CFDI works the same in every state, and the tax details your company has to supply are identical wherever the stay happens.
How to brief a host in a city you do not know
Send the same five things every time: exact dates or the widest realistic range, headcount, the work sites the team must reach, whether a company is paying, and whether you need a CFDI. Those five let any competent host in any Mexican city answer usefully in one reply.
Then ask two things back that are easy to forget: how many bathrooms, and whether there is housekeeping. Both are assumed in the US corporate-housing product and neither is guaranteed here. Our own house, for example, has 3 bedrooms, 5 beds and 1 full bathroom for up to 7 guests, with no daily housekeeping — we publish that plainly rather than let a company discover it on arrival.
The question that decides the city, not the property
Before comparing properties, settle where the team actually has to be each morning. Mexican metro areas are large and their industrial corridors sit on specific sides of the city, so a property that looks central on a map can be the wrong side of the metro for your sites.
For work in the eastern and northern part of the Monterrey metro area — the Apodaca corridor, Juárez, Pesquería — a base in Guadalupe fits well. For work concentrated on the western side, it does not, and we would rather say so than quote you.
