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This Tiny Caribbean Island Isn’t For Everyone — And That’s What Makes It Cool. 

Saba.

Some Caribbean islands are shaped by beaches, resorts, and easy shorelines. Saba is shaped by edges — sharp cliffs, climbing roads, and an island silhouette that doesn’t resemble anywhere else in the region. It’s the sort of place travelers hear about long before they ever meet someone who’s actually been, a huge volcanic peak rising […]

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Christie’s Looking to Build Caribbean Real Estate Alliance 

A Christie's listing in St Thomas.

By Joe Pike, Special Contributor to CJI Christie’s International Real Estate has entered into a master license agreement with a St. Thomas-based broker to create Christie’s International Real Estate Caribbean Affiliates. The new entity will provide a central source for listings, market data, marketing, and inter-island cooperation among luxury brokerage firms and their clients in […]

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Listing of the Week: A One-Bedroom at Grand Cayman’s Seafire  

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It’s been the hottest residential resort in Cayman amid the pandemic — and now a unit at the Residences at Seafire has hit the market.  Residence N504, a one-bedroom, one-bathroom, 1,380-square-foot unit at Seafire has been listed fro $2.5 million with Provenance Properties, the xclusive affiliate of Christie’s International Real Estate in the Cayman Islands. The […]

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Another Record-Breaking Caribbean Luxury Home Sale

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A record-breaking year for the Cayman Islands real estate market has been driven in part by the sale of two luxury estates. In June this year The Peninsula Estate, which was listed at 17 million, sold, making it the highest price property transaction for a home or condo on record. In October that record was […]


Listing of the Week: A One-Bedroom at Grand Cayman’s Seafire  

An ultra-luxury villa in Turks and Caicos has been hit the market, Caribbean Journal Invest has learned.  The Paradiso Del Mar villa has been listed for $15.75 million with Regency Christie’s International Real Estate in Providenciales.  That works out to about $656 per square foot for the villa, which is set in the exclusive Turtle Tail […]

How (And Why) to Retire in the Cayman Islands

By Alexander Britell When it comes to making lifestyle decisions, the pandemic has only strengthened the appeal of the Caribbean, as more people flock to the region for sanctuary, seclusion and stability amid an uncertain global situation.  It has led to a number of new trends, including growing real estate demand in some Caribbean nations and an increasing number of destinations […]

Why Families Are Moving to the Cayman Islands

Above photo by Lisa Reid Photography. The Caribbean is often the place that retirees look to move, in pursuit of a slower pace of life and to escape long winters. For others, moving to a tropical island is a reward for a lifetime of hard work and an opportunity to “live the dream.” However, there […]

From Turks and Caicos to Puerto Rico, New Yorkers Are Migrating to the Caribbean

Even in the midst of a pandemic, villa sales in the second quarter in the Turks and Caicos Islands actually eclipsed the numbers from the same period in 2019.  A strong part of that, Regency Christie’s International Real Estate senior broker Robert Greenwood told Caribbean Journal Invest, came from an increasingly important demographic in the […]

Webinar: The Caribbean's Hottest Real Estate Destinations

The latest Caribbean Journal Invest webinar explores the real estate markets in the Cayman Islands and the Turks and Caicos Islands. The pandemic has shifted demand toward jurisdictions like these two island chains, as more buyers seek safety, security and space amid the changing world. Join CJI’s Alexander Britell for a conversation with real estate […]

Demand for Caribbean Private Island Real Estate Is Surging

By Alexander Britell Over the last few months, Robert Greenwood has gotten hundreds of calls from clients in the United States.  They’ve called from country estates, from $10 million penthouses in New York City.  And they’ve all wanted the same thing: to be somewhere else.  The pandemic has led to a dramatic shift in the […]

Webinar: The Caribbean’s Hottest Real Estate Destinations, Turks and Caicos and Cayman

More and more buyers are looking to leave crowded cities like New York and move to the Caribbean, broker Robert Greenwood tells Caribbean Journal Invest.  For many, particularly high-net-worth buyers, it’s all about social distancing and lifestyle, Greenwood says.  And there are two Caribbean destinations of particular interest now: the Turks and Caicos Islands and […]

Turks and Caicos Luxury Home Lists for $15 Million

By Alexander Britell and Dana Niland A $15 million home has hit the real estate market in Turks and Caicos, Caribbean Journal has learned. Turks and Caicos-based Regency Christie’s International Real Estate has the listing on Point House, which is set in the private island (and celebrity favorite) enclave of Parrot Cay. The 7,000-square-foot estate, […]