Since we launched our real estate business in Utila this past January I have received emails from people asking me about it in regard to what it is like versus Roatan. How is it the same, how is it different? Well this morning I found an article about Utila that thought told better than I could what Utila was like …
Real Estate at its Tropical Best!
RE/MAX Roatan – June 2014 Newsletter The past few years, for anyone in the real estate business, it has certainly been years of ‘adjustment’, after the popping of the real estate ‘bubble’. Developers did ‘fire sales’ and many home owners ended up with financial issues, whether it be here or there. Each year real estate ‘adjusts’ in the market providing …
Medical Hospital CEMESA Update
A couple of months ago I wrote about the announcement of CEMESA Hospital group building a facility here on Roatan. For those not familiar with CEMESA it is one of the top health care facilities in the country that employees some of the top doctors in Central America. They have been directly responsible for diagnosing issues I had, correctly, that …
Building Your Island Dream Home
Here, like many places in the U.S., the building of homes really took off during the years 2000 to 2007, when suddenly the real estate ‘bubble’ popped and everything came to a screeching halt. Since that time many real estate markets have been in the ‘short sale’ or ‘mortgage crisis’ mode and now in some places, there actually are shortages …
Raw Travel TV
The is a newer TV show called ‘Raw Travel’ that yesterday featured Honduras as a travel destination will be rebroadcasting the episode, and it may be something that you would be interested in catching. You can go here – http://rawtravel.tv/2014/05/13/honduras-beaches-ancient-ruins-people-making-difference/ On the above link there is a ‘Where to Watch’ link to show on what station and time you may …
Retiring Overseas? Check this out
Retiring to Honduras – Many people spend much of their lives dreaming of retiring abroad, and for increasing numbers of people that dream is now becoming a reality. There are currently around 350,000 American retirees living outside of the United States and a recent survey by the Travel Market Report revealed that as many as 3.3 million American baby boomers are planning …
Medical – Concierge Doctor/ Lab Work /
Medical care when considering a new location to work or live is always a consideration, as it should be. There is a new lab that has opened here on the island, on the second floor of the Cuban Building (which is right across the street from RECO). Medical services include: Adult or children, prenatal care, minor surgeries,physical and medical exams …
May 2014 RE/MAX Real Estate Newsletter
White Pickett Fences – I was at lunch with a friend here a couple of weeks ago at “Victoria’s’, (which is located at Lawson Rock, good food by the way), chatting about various things but the conversation went to the long, long winter that was experienced in North America this past year, with many locations still being snowed on in …
Americans Sold on Real Estate as Best Long-Term Investment
For longer than the history of the U.S. or Canada people have agreed that the best long term investment was certainly real estate. Considering a spot in Paradise? “I would give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.” -Shakespeare “Buy on the fringe and wait. Buy land near a growing city! Buy real estate when other …
First World Water and Sanitation in a Developing Country?
Many that travel to Mexico, Central and South America experience the realization that in many ways ‘here is not there’. U.S. standards for PPM (parts per million) of particulates for water is 400. In Canada it is 300 PPM. Several developments on the island have systems that have been installed by ACME Environmental Solutions that are able to achieve as …