Feb 5, 2024 | Reports
Find the monthly sales data, inventory, and days on market for the St. Croix, USVI real estate market! We have downloadable Coldwell Banker real estate reports — available below for each category: Homes & Condos, Condos, Homes, and Land!
If you are not familiar with with the implications of the data, please give us a call or email us directly with any questions. We are Accredited Buyer’s Representative (ABR) and Seller Representative Specialist (SRS) and have the experience and local knowledge to help you in every step of the process. We can help you narrow down neighborhoods based on your priorities. We can also advise you on the market trends in your desired neighborhoods.
Open reports by clicking on links below:
Homes & Condos – January 2024 Report
Homes – January 2024 Report
Condo – January 2024 Report
Land – January 2024 Report
Note: The average sales price and the average days on market could be skewed greatly by only one sale or because of the small number of sales
Jan 31, 2024 | QA
Question: “If I am unsure if St. Croix is where I would like to buy, what would be helpful in making the decision?
Christie’s Answer: Travel + Leisure described St. Croix as a “true gem” with “laid-back character” (read the article here). To understand what it’s like to live on this beautiful island, we encourage you to talk to local residents. We would be happy to answer all of your questions about the island or island living. Since we’ve lived here 20 years, if we don’t have the answer, we know who to ask!
If you haven’t been to St. Croix before, come and take the first couple of days just driving around getting to know the island. It’s so diverse – from dry and arid on the east end, to lush tropical rainforest on the west end. We recommend that you stop to get lunch or a cold drink at different spots and talk with people. See if you like it!
Once we know what you are looking for, we can send you listings so that you can choose what you’d like to see. The more we know about what you want, the easier it is for us to help you find a great island home! If we don’t find what you’d like while you are here, we can work remotely by doing a video or FaceTime call. Or, if you want close up photos of certain things, we can do that, too. We have sold properties sight unseen. That’s where driving around the island learning about the different areas is really helpful.
First published on our January 2024 Newsletter
Jan 31, 2024 | QA
Question: “I want to buy a condo or house in the Caribbean. I have never been to St. Croix, what are the first steps to exploring St. Croix as a place to buy my dream home?”
Chris’ Answer: Since every island in the Caribbean is different, the first step is to gather information about St. Croix. We’d be very happy to talk with you to answer questions about the island or real estate, and send you listings so that you can begin learning about the real estate market here. On our website, you can do a search on St Croix listings, and read our blog articles about St. Croix. We also encourage you to take a look at our past newsletters (access them here). In each one there is real estate information and also news articles about our island which we find interesting.
Two great sites for St. Croix are Go To St. Croix (link here) and Visit St. Croix (link here). Although they are created with tourists in mind, you will learn so much by going through their many pages and seeing their wonderful photographs. They also have web cams so that you can see what’s happening on island in real time.
First published on our January 2024 Newsletter
Jan 29, 2024 | Island News
St. Croix as the V.I. Trail Alliance, St. George Village Botanical Garden and V.I. Agriculture Department came together last week at Government House on St. Croix, to celebrate the award of a record $6.5 million in federal urban forestry grants meant to improve the island’s climate resiliency and food security. The St. Croix Source’s article this weekend reported that Agriculture Commissioner Louis Petersen said the money will allow the department, which partners with the V.I. Trail Alliance, to plant a variety of trees to increase food production but also to train people to nurture and maintain the green spaces, creating job opportunities and economic benefits to the community. Read the full article here.
The proposal for the grant included inspiring and programs and solutions for urban forestry that included using trees here is to offset food insecurity, educating youth and paid training for the workforce, facilitating projects geared to community education, workforce development in urban forestry, climate mitigation, forest conservation and food resilience, and more.
To commemorate the award of $6.5 million in urban forestry grants for the big island under President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, members of the V.I. Trail Alliance, My Brother’s Workshop, the International Institute of Tropical Forestry in Puerto Rico, and the Urban and Community Forestry Program of the U.S. Forest Service planted a mastic bully tree at the Estate Adventure Pavilion and Trail on Wednesday on St. Croix (photo above).
Jan 26, 2024 | Island News
We were excited to read Travel + Leisure‘s February 2024 Water Issue and seeing St. Croix and local businesses in the spotlight! In the online article (a version of this story first appeared in the mentioned issue of Travel + Leisure) “The Largest U.S. Virgin Island Is Largely Unspoiled — Thanks to Its Eco-friendly Ethos” Travel + Leisure highlighted St Croix as a bright, eco-friendly, low-impact choice for tourism in the Caribbean.
St. Croix, the largest of the U.S. Virgin Islands, is not overdeveloped and much of its natural beauty remains unspoiled. There are limited nonstop flights from major cities, relatively few cruise ships, and no mega-resorts — just a smattering of boutique hotels.
Travel + Leisure
Bush Cook, a three-day community fair at Sejah Farm, Jack & Isaac Bay Preserve, Feather Leaf Inn, Coral Innovation Hub, and more were featured. Read the e-version of the article here.
