In Mexico’s Highest Offices, the Economy Looks Different

Mexico’s highest corporate floors favor profiles that differ from those found in the broader office market.

Julio Cedillo leads Aon Mexico, an insurer with offices on the highest floors of Torre Diana. Photo: SiiLA.

By: SiiLA News

06/15/2026

Few things transform perspective as much as height. From above, distances shrink, noise fades and vastness becomes manageable. Perhaps that is why height has long been one of the oldest forms of power, granting the illusion that the world fits beneath your feet.

That fascination did not disappear with kings, armies or cathedrals. Today, it survives in a different kind of tower. According to SiiLA¹, the top floors of Class A+ skyscrapers with 30 or more stories in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey are dominated by companies in business services, finance, technology, consulting and capital goods.

Together, these sectors account for roughly 20% of the Class A+ inventory in the markets analyzed, yet they occupy about 60% of the space located at the summits of the country’s tallest skyscrapers. The contrast suggests that top floors operate under a different logic than the office market as a whole, as not all sectors derive the same benefit from occupying a building’s highest spaces.

The difference becomes even more apparent when looking at who is missing. Some of the largest users of Class A+ office space—such as real estate, insurance, telecommunications and government—have only a limited presence at the top. By contrast, sectors such as capital goods appear there far more frequently than they do across the broader corporate market.

Corporate verticality favors profiles that differ from the market average.

The hierarchy does not end there. Companies with a strong presence in the market’s top floors, such as WeWork and Alsea, become less prominent at the highest elevations, where firms such as Aon, Essilor, Gicsa, BBVA and Google appear more frequently. Although they belong to different industries, most share one characteristic: their activities depend less on the physical production of goods than on the management of information, capital, knowledge or business relationships.

In that sense, the summits of Mexico’s skyscrapers do not appear to be occupied by those who produce the most things, but by those who coordinate the most processes. Thus, as one moves higher, corporate space begins to look less like the economy below and more like the activities that organize it.

Height functions as a corporate filter.

The pattern, however, is not distributed equally across markets. Mexico City shows the most diverse composition, with finance, business services, consulting and technology spread among the leading positions. Monterrey concentrates its highest floors more clearly in business services, which account for 41% of the occupied area across the summits analyzed. Guadalajara², meanwhile, shows a pronounced concentration in finance.

Beyond sectors, companies or markets, the data suggests that height remains a scarce and selective resource. Not because it allows people to see farther, but because it still helps determine what happens below.

To access detailed information on corporate occupancy, buildings and office market trends, visit SiiLA Market Analytics or contact us at contacto@siila.com.mx.

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¹ The primary analysis considers occupants of the top floors in 23 Class A+ corporate buildings with 30 or more stories located in Mexico City, Monterrey and Guadalajara. For comparison purposes, an expanded universe of 288 Class A+ buildings across the same markets was also analyzed.

² In Guadalajara, the results should be interpreted with caution due to the limited number of Class A+ skyscrapers with 30 or more stories included in the analysis.

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