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St Kitts / Real Estate Agents

By James Henderson

The real estate market in St Kitts has seen an extraordinary upswing over the past few years. For a long time the island was in the doldrums but it has suddenly seen an explosion of building - and a certain rise in the price of land, though much of it is still considerably less expensive than most islands in the area.

The upswing can be dated to 2004, pretty much to the opening of the Marriot hotel on the Atlantic side of Frigate Bay. This put St Kitts on the map for two main reasons, first because it introduced better airlift and second because of the hotel’s conference business, which attracted the type of clients that were likely to buy property and, in an island that was pretty much undeveloped, plots for building.

By far the most popular area for development has been Frigate Bay, the centre of the island’s tourism industry. This was largely Crown land that has been released. Gradually, though, this is changing, in part because the land is largely used up (development is now creeping up the hill out of the bay), but also because the general interest in St Kitts has stimulated projects elsewhere around the island too.

Although a road was built along the south-eastern peninsular in the early 1990s it has taken a decade for interest in that area to take off. This is now underway, particularly at the far south eastern tip of the island where there are some independent villas and a large, top of the range development. The land in the north of St Kitts, which was used to grow sugar cane until recently (the industry pretty much stopped in St Kitts in 2005), is now lying fallow and this has also begun to attract small amounts of development. There is a plantation house project at Rawlins Plantation and there has been an attempted golf course development too.

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Looking for inspiration?

  1. Discover the north of the island on the Scenic Railway
  2. Hike through the rainforest to Mt Liamuiga Volcano Crater
  3. Visit Caribelle Batik at Romney Manor for a taste of culture
  4. Have a flutter at one of Frigate Bay's Vegas-style casinos
  5. Take the ferry across to Nevis for a day's sightseeing

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