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Why This Beach Resort Is One of the Best-Kept Secrets in Belize

The moment you arrive in Hopkins you know you’ve found it. You rumble down the dirt road, past the beach shacks and the palm trees, just ahead of the creek. Hopkins, set in the eastern middle of this spectacular country, is one of those beach towns you fall in love with instantly, one of those […]

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There’s a Residential Resort Boom in Turks and Caicos — Here’s What’s You Need to Know

Cranes now punctuate the skyline from Grace Bay to Long Bay as Turks and Caicos leans into a strategy that blends five-star hospitality with for-sale homes. The next two years bring a wave of branded and design-driven residential resorts — Andaz, St. Regis, The Loren and Kempinski among them — on top of a maturing […]

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A Guide to The Bahamas’ Resort Project Pipeline: What’s Coming Next in Nassau, Exuma and Beyond

The Bahamas is in the middle of one of its most ambitious hotel development waves in years, with a slate of new luxury resorts, branded residences and cruise-line destinations reshaping the country’s tourism landscape. From a fourth resort at Baha Mar to billion-dollar projects in Exuma and Eleuthera, the pipeline spans nearly every corner of […]

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Demand for Turks and Caicos Real Estate Is Holding Strong, With Growing Pipeline of Branded Residences

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While suggestions of global real estate cooling persist, Turks and Caicos is charting its own course — with strong fundamentals, a tightening inventory pipeline, and a buyer pool that’s both focused and motivated. The island nation’s property market, long favored for its low-density luxury and investment appeal, is proving resilient midway through 2025. According to […]

A Guide to The Bahamas’ Resort Project Pipeline: What’s Coming Next in Nassau, Exuma and Beyond

The Cayman Islands real estate market is showing signs of normalization, according to the new Q2 2025 market report from Provenance Properties, with a slight year-over-year dip in transaction volume and value—but continued strength at the high end of the market. In the first half of 2025, the Cayman Islands recorded US$534 million in total […]

A Guide to All the Projects in Turks and Caicos' Resort Pipeline

Turks and Caicos is currently undergoing one of the region’s biggest development booms, with more than 10 significant hotel projects expected to be completed in the next five years. Here’s what you need know about the projects opening soon and others with a little more time to sell. This is our guide to the resort […]

More Americans Are Buying Real Estate in Barbados

Barbados is in the midst of a real estate transformation — one being driven by second homeowners. And for the first time in three decades, it’s Americans, not Brits, who are fueling the demand. Between January and September of last year alone, more than 175,000 travelers from the United States arrived in Barbados — a […]

The Caribbean Economic Forecast for 2025

The Caribbean is poised to outpace much of Latin America in 2025, buoyed by tourism momentum and oil-fueled growth in Guyana, according to the World Bank’s latest LACER economic report. Real GDP in several Caribbean nations is forecast to grow faster than the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) regional average of 2.1 percent, ith Dominica […]

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Ritz-Carlton's Caribbean Resort Pipeline

We’re in the midst of a full-fledged luxury hotel boom in the Caribbean, with luxury hotels seemingly popping up all over the region with a growing frequency at a rate we really haven’t seen since the heart of the pandemic, when a huge infusion of capital went into large developments across the region. That includes […]

Four Seasons’ Caribbean Resort Pipeline

It’s been more than three decades since Isadore Sharp identified the potential of the tiny island of Nevis in the Eastern Caribbean, helping to create what would be one of the defining resorts in the Caribbean landscape. Now, a broad pipeline of new branded projects in development in the region bear the Four Seasons name, […]

Why the Puerto Rico Hotel Market Is So Strong Right Now

It just might be the strongest hotel market in the Caribbean right now, a region that seems to be more resilient to the current global uncertainty than what you might think. So what is making Puerto Rico so resilient? It’s a combination of factors, according to JLL senior managing director Andrew Dickey, who runs the […]

Why Homebuyers Are Flocking to This Caribbean Market for “Super Prime” Real Estate

It’s the biggest shift in the regional real estate market since the boom of the pandemic. More and more high-net worth buyers are now seeking out what brokers call “super-prime” real estate: listings at $20, $30 and $40 million. And there’s one market that’s drawing more interest than anywhere else. “Post-election last year, we’ve seen […]