Roatan Airport Noted for Acheivement

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Roatan, Honduras.   (Translated from Honduran Spanish Newspaper LaPrensa -Article on June 30, 2014) -Original Spanish version article here The Juan Manuel Gálvez, Roatán International Airport ranks 14 ranking released for flight time, which is a very important indicator of efficiency in the aviation industry in the country, according to a study published by Flight View in May this year …

Three Worlds/ One Country

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Keeping with the ‘Three Worlds/One Country marketing theme, Tropical Islands, Rain Forest, Ancient Mayan Culture/ruins), Honduras has had for many years now the county has approved the construction of a new small airport near Copan Ruinas, where the Mayan civilizations ruins are located in Honduras. The ruins are noted as the best preserved of the Mayan world attracts tourism from …

Utila Island

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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!

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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

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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

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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

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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 …

May 2014 RE/MAX Real Estate Newsletter

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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

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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 …