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Property in St Lucia

St Lucia is the archetypal laid-back tropical paradise with a stunning topography of rainforest, mountains, beaches and friendly people. It’s usually Barbados that steals the limelight in the Caribbean, but for those who feel other islands are over-developed or over-priced, there is St Lucia.

Here you tuck yourself away and stare at the ocean, but nip out to some dramatically-located, friendly local bar, on the beach or suspended at the top of a rainforest, for a rum punch. The late Lord Glenconner left half of his former estate hidden away in the Piton Mountains to be developed into a luxury resort - recently completed.

The St Lucian government has been keen to lure people to the island to see what it has to offer and many developments offer investment perks such as a 10-year exemption from income tax. Due to the island’s natural geography, the island is unlikely to become over-developed. Some further inducement was the introduction of the Citizenship By Investment programme in 2015 with a property purchase threshold of $300,000.