So, you don’t have a budget for a turnkey home. The solution could be buying a home that needsa bit of renovation.The St. Kitts and Nevis government announced The Build and Thrive Incentive, which giveshomeowners benefits such as no import fee, no Customs service charge, and a 13% VATreduction on building materials up to EC$500,000 or US$186,000...
Sometimes, the right thing to do is just lean back and soak up a dose of decadence. While it’s easy to think of the Caribbean as a place of cute, colourful chattel houses, we should never forget it is also the playground of the rich and famous. And as such, there are houses to accommodate every whim, every style preference, and every budget.Luxury...
There are few things more alarming than experiencing your first hurricane. There are the hours spent tracking weather systems and websites, and it’s impressive what can be conjured up by the imagination. The best time to prepare for a hurricane, though, isn’t in those final minutes before it hits. It’s in the ‘safe’ season, the months when stormy...
There were two significant actions taken by the government of St. Kitts and Nevis which resulted in a decline of real estate sales for the first quarter and most of the second quarter for 2023.On Nevis, the waiver of the Alien Land Holder License fee of 10% ended on December 31, 2022, which resulted in higher acquisition costs for buyers. On...
While the definition of ‘home’ can be somewhat hazy, most can agree that it is a place to which you return again and again – and where you feel at ease with yourself and the world. Whether the hills or the sea speak to you, we have properties for sale that cover all definitions of home.Starting with a stylish coastal condo, a two-bedroom option at...
With the last few years producing the highest ever sales figures for land and property on St Kitts and Nevis, the government needed to get inventive to ensure numbers didn’t suddenly diminish. And they’ve come up trumps, with newly adapted Citizenship By Investment (CBI) regulations. There are pages and pages of documents to trawl through, so we’...
While staying in hotels is fantastic – and Nevis does have some truly wonderful hotels to choose from, many created from the buildings of former plantations – you can really get to know a place if you choose to rent a villa for your vacation instead. You can be as involved as you like in island life: hire a car or use the taxi services; go to the...
As you’ll no doubt know by now, all pandemic-related restrictions for travel to St Kitts and Nevis have been lifted. Despite this being the height of the hurricane season there has been a surge of visitors to the islands with people keen to return their favourite haunts and hidden corners. It is, after all, the time of year with fewer tourists and...
My family has been visiting Nevis for years. You know the sort of holidays: early morning walks to beat the heat of the day followed up by afternoons of cocktails for the adults and precious pool time for the kids. I have memories from decades ago – and the crazy thing is, the island hasn’t really changed in all that time. There are more beach...
As more people have the opportunity to work from home, they’re looking to new possibilities overseas: why live your life from a single corner of the world when there are beautiful, palm-lined islands such as St Kitts and Nevis on offer?But to become a citizen of St Kitts and Nevis requires a considerable investment: the CBI scheme needs a minimum...