Anguilla Real Estate...
Buying & Building

Anguilla real estate is becoming extremely hard to find. As you know, it is a topic dear to this family's hearts. My parents ultimately want to settle here and both my sister and I could easily be very happy living in Anguilla (as long as we could visit New York every now and then!).

As a result of our passion for Anguilla, this site has covered a lot of ground (so to speak)...

Jackie has found land for my Dad a couple of times, some very nice oceanfront. Each time, my Dad has come close to buying. Each time, though, fate (i.e., "work") intervened. Meanwhile, land gets harder and harder to find, and more expensive.

It has reached a point where the local real estate agents don't even have any oceanfront land for sale!

So imagine our surprise when someone contacted Jackie Pascher, though the form on this site, to let her know that he had 14 acres of oceanfront land for sale!

People have always used that form to contact Jackie with a desire to buy land or to rent a villa.

But this time, someone wanted to sell.

And this time, my Dad was ready! Needless to say, he was excited.

I'll let him tell the story from here.

August 21, 2005 (Start of this journal)
Note from Ken, Nori's dad

Yes, imagine my delight when I found out that 14 acres of oceanfront Anguilla real estate were suddenly available.

And all thanks to Nori's site. I'm sure glad she started this site, "way back" when she was just 14 years old! And now, her younger sister Yuki is lending a hand.

Anguilla has become a real family affair!

Three-and-a-half years after that first, fateful trip to Anguilla, we have put down our deposit check and are proceeding with the first step, securing the Outline Planning Permission. But I'm getting a bit ahead of myself...

Nori thought it would be a good idea to report, journal-style, our experiences in buying anguilla real estate and building our own home. I agreed. And that's what I'll be doing in this section of the site.

I hope you enjoy it. I especially hope you find it useful and one day we get to share a rum punch on this beautiful island.

All the best,
Dad

P.S. Nori provides a form below to reach Jackie. If you want to buy Anguilla real estate or rent a villa, I can't recommend here highly enough. And...

If you want to sell Anguilla real estate, it turns out that the form works both ways! The 14 acres sold out quite rapidly. But Jackie has the best turnover, so whether you are buying or selling Anguilla real estate, you will be delighted as we are with Jackie.

Meanwhile, let's start the story...

Building On Anguilla: The Journal

This section of Nori's Web site will grow until our Anguilla home is a reality. I hope you find it useful if you have decided to build on Anguilla. Here we go, step by step...

1) Anguilla real estate for sale!

2) We buy!

3) Outline Planning Permission, Caribbean Home-Building Books

4) Alien Land Holding Application and Anguilla Attorneys

5) Preparation: From Anguilla Lawyers to Caribbean Architects to A Great Team Of Builders

6) Tropical Building! We break ground.

7) Building In The Caribbean Really Starts: The Big Dig

8) Our First Attempt At Building In The Tropics: AKA "Mike's Home"

9) The real building in Anguilla starts: Batter boards, cistern and the first cement pour!

A Side Trip
Anguilla Native Stone: We've found some beatiful local stone for our patios and terraces... and an exciting, passionate story!

10) An Intoduction To The Anguilla Builders and We Pour The Footings: An introduction to this fine team of men who I am beginning to know. And the perimeter footings are poured. I can see the outline of our future home!

11) Caribbean Construction Makes Steady Progress: The team forms and pours the cistern walls and footings.

12) Building In The Caribbean Continues: We lay foundation block.

13) Our Anguilla Homes Foundation Is Finished and Backfilled.

14) Anguilla Plumbing, Part 1

15) Anguilla Exterminator Sprays For Prevention

16) First floor concrete slab reinforcement

I will be updating this journal until we are living in our new home...
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