JEK
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St. Martin's newly dubbed "Gold Coast" sports large villas in ideal for weddings, retreats, family gt-aways
Newport, RI (PRWEB) June 25, 2006 -- Wimco Villas, specializing in rentals of privately held luxury villas in the Caribbean and Europe, now offers a collection of nine contiguous yet private beachfront villas in a gated community in St. Martin’s Baie Rouge area. The villas range from one to six bedrooms and are just 10 minutes from the island’s International Airport.
“We’ve been fascinated with the creativity and design going into the new villas in Baie Rouge,” says Stiles Bennet, Director of Marketing for Wimco. “Each of the recently built villas includes classic Caribbean architectural elements while tastefully incorporating state of the art features and amenities – raising the quality standard for the whole area.”
The newest villa in this private enclave is called “La Reve.” It is a sleek and stylish five bedroom villa with a massive terrace area surrounding the beachside pool – perfect for a wedding. The villa has its own media room, a gourmet kitchen, workout room, and private tennis court. “La Reve” is available for rental through Wimco for vacations starting on Nov. 1, 2006.
The nine villas are all on a private beach, protected by hills and lagoons behind, accessed via a private lane with a gate house and guard. Each villa has spacious interiors with designer kitchens, state of the art media systems if not full media rooms, private pools and Jacuzzis, and lots of space to relax in the sun. Several of the villas contain their own spa and work-out areas and come with servants to cater to a client’s every need. For diversion, shopping and fine dining are only five minutes away in Marigot.
“This collection of villas is truly unique stylistically and geographically,” says Bennet, “so much so that we now call Baie Rouge St. Martin’s “Gold Coast”.
Weekly summer rates available through mid December range from $5,500 for 4 bedrooms to $33,000 for 6 bedrooms. These prices represent an average reduction of 30 percent over winter prices. Also, most of the villas welcome children, says Bennet.
St. Martin is the French side of the island, with the Dutch side going by the name Sant Maarten. Its airport is served by scheduled and charter flights from New York, 3.5 hours; Miami, 2.5 hours; and Paris, 8.5 hours, as well as from Guadeloupe, St. Barts and other nearby islands.
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PIRATE40
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I am game for starting a small LLC to purchase a villa on St. Barth with 4 or 5 regular visitors...share all upkeep and rent it out when no one wants to use it to help pay for it....any one checked out St. Kitts? I see some great prices on vacant land with ocean view..35,000....small homes...450,000....definetly doable.....I am going to charter someone from the St. Barts flying club to give me a tour and maybe drop me off for a few hours....I did notice a few properties on St. Barts for under a mil. ......could work.
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What small amount of time I dont spend in this website, I spend studying caribbean real estate. I looked LONG AND HARD at making a purchase on St Maarten or St Martin but was finally dissuaded by the Pro-St Martin Websites that had all Gone Miker over the place.
It was a shame too because SXM is easy to reach and the prices weren't too obscene (though they are getting frisky now).
I also looked extensively at Nevis and a little at St Kitts. I checked out St Johns, made a rash (and possibly foolish) decision and bought some hillside St Croix jungle, checked out the BVI, did some prelim on Les Saintes and a little work on Martinique. Looked at AXA pretty hard and did some spotchecking of the Bahamas. Here is what i found:
There are no "secrets" out there. Everything that is desirable and has some infrastructure is being priced accordingly. To get real deals, you have to go to unimproved spits of sand or buy into an island "whose better days may be behind it".
St Kitts has appealling prices and is supposed to be a pretty nice island. Ditto (even more so) Nevis.
Even so, given the choice between trading Saline and Nikki Beach for horse-racing and cricket, I have decided to forego other islands. If I cant own a piece of St Barth, why own a piece of anywhere else?
Your thought about doing an LLC on St Barth is probably a good one. Alas, there are so many peculiarities of french law (not to mention posters in this site ;) that it would require of LOT of legwork and research to feel good about the deal. In the perfect world, an established group of folks who have already met each other and socialized before (are we talking the STL gang here?) would be better suited to pull this type of deal off than, as Frankie might say, Strangers In The Site.
I am intrigued. However, having already been foolish with money on one caribbean island (nice view, though) I have promised my wife to be more sober in future expenditures.
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PIRATE40
Reged: 01/21/05
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Loc: SARASOTA , FLORIDA
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I fully understand the problems of "strangers" pulling off a joint effort in regards to a purchase...I only am able to compare this personally to a joint effort in regards to my aircraft purchase with strangers. One "good" thing is that you are dealing with a like crowd, special people who want to be part of a special place and are effluent enough to be able to accomplish this and want to protect their interests. I would have no problems dealing with anyone from this website that had ROSITA'S
approval...lol
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