Roatan Interest would like to congratulate Steve Parks and Erica Moncada--the lucky winners of the Roatan Interest Real Estate Free Trip Giveaway in 2008. The couple enjoyed 3 nights on the beautiful island of Roatan--part of the Bay Islands, Honduras.  Adventures await--Scuba Diving, Snorkeling, Zip lines through the canopy and tours of the entire island.  Find out what else these winners did while in Roatan and find out how you can be next! 
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Cruise port construction near Honduras should boost Roatán property values   Published on: Thursday, January 10, 2008 Written by: Melana Yanos   For real estate in Roatán, a small island 40 miles north of Honduras in the Caribbean Sea, the ships are coming in and bringing valuable commercial activity with them. Specifically, the large-scale construction of two ports by major cruise lines Carnival and Royal Caribbean is expected to further boost the island’s rapidly growing tourist industry and consequently enhance growth in Roatán’s property values. Cruise ship arrivals are expected to quadruple from 250,000 in 2006 to more than one million in 2008, according to an article published by LatinFinance last March. This increase will be in large part because of new ports that are able to accommodate a larger number of cruise trips and passengers. Carnival announced its agreement with the Honduran...
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Published on: Monday, August 20, 2007 Written by: Melana Yanos   Owning a small piece of paradise in the Caribbean might seem like a mere pipe dream for most real estate investors. However, lucrative opportunities for investment are like buried treasure: there’s great potential for profit, as long as one knows where to look.   Below, NuWire presents our Top 5 picks for best places to buy property in the Caribbean. These islands offer the natural beauty and divine weather that the Caribbean is famous for, with fewer drawbacks; common downsides include high cost of land, risk of hurricanes and high poverty and crime rates. With a little digging, the tropical enthusiast might discover that owning a piece of paradise is both possible and profitable.   Buccoo Bay, Tobago 1. Trinidad and Tobago As the Caribbean's leading producer of oil and gas, Trinidad and Tobago stands out as a relatively industrialized country....
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It’s time to reach for the Atlas again as the island of Roatán is added to the list of hot emerging markets for the intrepid househunter. Part of a string of islands some 60km off the eastern coastline of Honduras, Roatán rests on a curved coral reef, second in length only to Australia’s, and offers idyllic diving conditions, signature wedding-white Caribbean beaches and year-round temperatures of between 25 and 32 degrees Celsius. Already popular with American property investors, the Europeans now want to join the party. Bart-Jan Hin, RE/MAX Sales Associate living in Roatán comments, “Due to the low exchange rate of the dollar in comparison to the pound and the fact that the British are known to be the ‘Kings of the Caribbean’ following an enduring love affair with the islands, there’s no reason why Roatán shouldn’t enjoy the same widespread appeal. English-speaking friendly inhabitants,...
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Roatan Island offers a perfect escape to a tropical paradise Sunday, Jan 13, 2008 - 12:03 AM   By JANINE S. POULIOT SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Roatan Island in Honduras is more than just a geographic location. It's a state of mind. On your worst days when you fantasize about escaping to a movie-set-perfect tropical island, Roatan would do nicely. Still largely undeveloped for tourism, it's a laid-back, pristine, breathtaking speck of Earth that attracts backpackers, divers and, increasingly, mainstream Americans as it begins to make it onto the vacation radar. So, undoubtedly, it will change. But for now, it's still an amalgamation of privately owned small beachfront inns with mosquito netting suspended over the beds, ceiling fans languidly distributing the balmy air and the transparent aquamarine Caribbean Sea just feet away. Roatan, 33 miles long and 4 miles wide, is one of three islands making up the Bay Islands. It is 30...
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