Buying and building in the Bahamas looks effortless from the veranda. It is anything but. Behind every great house is a maze the visitor never sees: government approvals and permits, import duties on nearly every material, hurricane-rated construction standards, island logistics, and a small pool of genuinely excellent agents, architects, builders and designers — surrounded by a much larger pool of the merely available.
Chosen well, a project lands on budget and on time and becomes one of the best investments its owner will ever make. Chosen poorly, the island has a way of collecting the difference — in years, and in millions.
Our principal has bought, redeveloped and sold in Lyford Cay personally — the houses in our portfolio are the record. Advisory clients get that judgment on their side of the table, for the whole journey.
A single flat fee opens the engagement: full access to our counsel, our network and our judgment as you search, negotiate and plan.
When your purchase or build proceeds, our fee is 5% of project value — with the $100,000 engagement fee credited in full against it. On the scale of a Lyford Cay project, the fee typically repays itself several times over in costs avoided and mistakes not made.
We connect you with the right real estate agents, architects, construction firms and interior designers for your specific project — the ones we would use ourselves — and we manage those relationships on your behalf.
Every design, plan and budget passes across our desk before it is signed. We advise on what the market rewards, what the climate demands, and what the island can actually deliver.
We begin with what you actually want — residence or investment, new build or redevelopment, this year or this decade — and give you an unvarnished view of what it will take.
We introduce and engage the right agent, architect, builder and designer for your project, negotiate their terms, and set the standard they will be held to.
Through approvals, permits, duties and design, we sit on your side of every table — reviewing plans, pressure-testing budgets, and keeping the island's complexity off your desk.
We stay engaged until the project is complete and the house is what it was promised to be — on the timeline and budget agreed at the start.
“The most expensive advisor in the Bahamas is the one you didn't hire.”
This is not consultancy from a distance. The houses in our portfolio — including our principal's own home, redeveloped end to end by Ronchalon — are the standard we hold every client project to, and the proof that the standard is real.
See the WorkThe best time to engage is before the first offer, the first architect, the first handshake. A short conversation will tell you whether we can help.
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