Welcome to the September issue of Property Guide  -  I love the house where I currently reside, with its pool, sunken sunroom and bougainvillea-sprinkled outdoor shower, and my housemates are great, but I think it’s time to live on my own. In my recent search for an apartment on Tortola, I’ve been fairly discouraged at the rent prices for the available spaces. A studio apartm...
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"I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
What ever you see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.
I am not cruel, only truthful –
The eye of a little god, four-cornered."
    – Sylvia Plath’s "Mirror"

When people think of mirrors, they usually think of a looking-glass, but a mirror is any surface that reflects. In fact, the first artif...
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With a high concentration of expatriate residents, as well as potential overseas buyers seeking to acquire luxury homes and investors in search of next big opportunity in the property market, the British Virgin Islands, Nature’s Little Secrets, represents the ideal environment for property buyers to capture a bit of paradise by owning a piece of land. However, non-nationals seeking to acquir...
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Currently in the BVI, there are more vacant houses and rental properties than there are buyers and occupants. This should make for a competitive market in which the buyer or renter gets a good deal. Unfortunately, this isn’t always the case. Both sellers and landlords in the BVI have been hesitant to lower their asking prices, causing their properties to remain unsold or unoccupied and often...
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