vanuatu island

vanuatu island

vanuatu island

vanuatu island

vanuatu island

vanuatu island

vanuatu island

vanuatu island

vanuatu island

vanuatu island

vanuatu island

vanuatu island

Vanuatu - Island Living In The South Pacific

Vanuatu is a series of Islands situated between Australia and Fiji. Flying time from New Zealand and Australia is less than 3 hours on a late model Boeing 737’s flown and maintained by expats. Flying time to Fiji or New Caledonia is about 1 hour. We have standard digital phone and mobile phone service and the internet service extends to broadband. Your GSM mobile phone should “roam” here. The economy istax-haven based and banking secrecy is extremely good. The temperatures are such that we can swim all year round and we experience regular rainfalls so the countryside is perpetually green. The expat community is very friendly and makes potential new expats welcome. Overseas visitors are sometimes overawed when they first step on to an Air Vanuatu aircraft.

When you arrive at Port Vila Airport you’re met by a string band. As one American visitor said to me, “I’ve never been on a flight as friendly as that one before!”. The restaurants are great and many have the “French Cuisine” touch. Many visitors are drawn to the displays in the windows of real estate offices. They find the low prices of property quite unbelievable.

Up until the year 2000 the real estate market was very quiet and the properties that were selling were mainly in the lower price range. As from 2000 there were serious enquiries from Australia and New Zealand and as sales were made prices started to rise. As of 2005 all of the cheaper initial waterfront blocks have been sold but the newer water front subdivisions which are higher priced are still set at approximately half the price of general South Pacific Island oceanfront blocks. The average oceanfront block on the Island of Efate (the main Vanuatu Island) now sell for US$200,000-US$250,000.

The South Pacific average is closer to US$500,000. Most of these blocks are 30-40 meter waterfrontage and vary in size from one-quarter acre (1000 sqm.) to 2 acres (8000 sqm.) Most have a white-sand beach or at least ocean frontage.

A couple of the subdivisions are based on a black-sand beach. Some of these estates are on the coast around the outskirts of Port Vila, which is the largest township in Vanuatu. They are open to the ocean and can be subject to large waves and strong winds.There are also a few subdivisions inside the actual Port Vila Harbour area and these are logically more protected.