Vinnie Morgan

Building a new home or renovating an existing property in Cap Estate, St Lucia can be an exciting project, but there are several important considerations before work begins. Alongside Saint Lucia's planning and building requirements, many properties within Cap Estate are subject to restrictive covenants governing matters such as the number and use of buildings, setbacks, alterations, drainage, fencing and trees. Understanding these requirements at the beginning of a project can help avoid...

One of the features that has helped shape Cap Estate into the low-density residential community it is today is the existence of restrictive covenants attached to many properties within the development. These covenants were established as Cap Estate was subdivided and developed for residential use and place restrictions and obligations on how affected properties can be developed, maintained and used. For existing residents, prospective property owners and anyone considering building or...

Today, Cap Estate is known as one of Saint Lucia's most distinctive residential communities - an area of rolling green hills, large residential lots and spectacular views stretching across the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean. But long before the villas, golf courses and residential roads of modern Cap Estate, this northern corner of Saint Lucia had a very different story. From wilderness to an 18th-century estate Cap Estate is located at the northernmost tip of Saint Lucia, looking towards...