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This Caribbean Beach City Has French Bakeries, Bokit Trucks, a Tiny Island — and Something Real

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There is flour on the paper bag from the bakery, hot sauce seeping through the wrapper around a bokit and a small passenger boat waiting just beyond the sand. Across the water, the red-and-white lighthouse of Îlet du Gosier rises above a patch of palms and sea grape. A few streets away, cars pass through […]

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Caribbean Hotel Investment Sentiment Holds Firm, Even as Costs Rise and Capital Tightens

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The ballroom at the Loews Coral Gables Hotel filled early, a cross-section of the region’s hotel investment community settling in for the opening session of ALIS CALA. Developers compared notes on pipeline projects, lenders talked quietly about deal flow, and operators watched the numbers that define the next year take shape in real time. Then […]

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Inside Anguilla's Luxury Real Estate Market

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A new five-bedroom villa on Rendezvous Bay, one of the Caribbean’s most celebrated stretches of sand, hit the market this spring asking $10.5 million. At $1,173 per square foot, it is the most expensive home for sale in Anguilla through Sotheby’s International Realty — and a useful entry point into a luxury market that has […]

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The Private Island Market in 2026: What Under $1M, $10M and $50 Million Get You

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There is no real estate category more mythologized — or more misunderstood — than the private island. The listings are scarce. The mechanics are unusual. And the spread between the cheapest and most expensive offerings is wider than in any other segment of Caribbean luxury real estate: a freehold 12-acre cay in the Bahamas can […]


Inside Anguilla's Luxury Real Estate Market

Across the Caribbean’s top property markets, a clear trend is taking hold: Canadian buyers are arriving in greater numbers and playing a growing role in transactions across the region. From The Bahamas to the Cayman Islands and Turks and Caicos, brokers report a steady rise in Canadian activity, particularly in the luxury and second-home segments. […]

The Cayman Islands' Property Market Is Surging Again — And There’s a Record $459M in Deals Under Contract

The Cayman Islands real estate market opened 2026 with rising prices, a record volume of deals under contract and a tightening supply of available inventory — a combination that continues to define one of the Caribbean’s most closely watched property markets. The latest Q1 2026 report from Provenance Properties shows a market that remains firmly […]

The Caribbean's Most Expensive Luxury Real Estate Markets, Ranked by Price Per Square Foot

St. Barts has long been understood as the most expensive real estate market in the Caribbean. But how much more expensive, exactly, and how does the rest of the region stack up? To find out, Caribbean Journal Invest analyzed 38 individual luxury listings and reported sales across 10 Caribbean markets, calculating price per square foot […]

Puerto Rico Extends Investor Tax Breaks Another 20 Years, With a Key New Catch

Puerto Rico has reset the timeline on one of the hemisphere’s most closely watched investor incentive programs. Governor Jenniffer González-Colón has signed Act 38-2026, a sweeping update to the island’s Act 60 incentives code, extending the Individual Resident Investor program through December 31, 2055 while introducing a new tax structure for future applicants. The move […]

Could the Caribbean Become the Next Dubai?

Dubai’s appeal was never just about sunshine and skyscrapers. It was about a simple proposition: low or zero income tax, clear residency pathways, luxury residential inventory and global connectivity. For years, that combination pulled in founders, financiers and multinational executives seeking both tax efficiency and geopolitical neutrality. Recent instability in the Middle East, including Iranian […]

The Caribbean Has Become the Global Outlier in Luxury Real Estate

The Caribbean has emerged as the clearest outlier in the global luxury residential market. While inventory rose across much of the world over the past year, Sotheby’s International Realty agents report that the Caribbean was the only region where luxury housing supply declined. At the same time, buyer demand surged, transactions accelerated, and prices continued […]

Private Islands Are Becoming the Caribbean’s Next Ultra-Luxury Development Frontier

Private island development in the Caribbean has entered a new phase — one defined less by novelty and more by institutional confidence, brand conviction, and long-term capital. Interest in private islands accelerated sharply during the pandemic, when high-net-worth travelers began prioritizing space, seclusion, and control over the travel environment.  What initially looked like a short-term […]

Caribbean Hotel Investment Sentiment Heading Into 2026

Senior hotel executives and investment principals active across the Caribbean are heading into 2026 with a broadly optimistic outlook, even as rising construction costs and tighter underwriting standards continue to reshape how — and where — capital is deployed in the region. In a recent Caribbean Journal Invest pulse survey of C-suite decision-makers, respondents expressed […]