Buying a Second Home on St. Barth’s
The road that winds around St. Barthélemy offers some of the most spectacular vistas in the Caribbean as it curves up and down steep hills, snakes along windswept beaches and crosses coconut groves and salt marshes.
Waterlilly House, which overlooks the Bay of St Jean in St. Barts, is one of the luxury houses offered for sale as part of the island’s Eden Rock Residence Club.
Too often, though, as the road bobs and weaves through the tiny island, the landscape is pocked with construction sites — building machinery, like colossal historic beasts, devouring the vegetation.
And on the decks of multimillion-euro villas, which rent for $5,000 to $50,000 a week during high season, jetsetters down their Negronis and cover their ears to muffle the sound of jackhammers. To view full article, click here…