Posted by: Editor on Oct 18, 2007 – 02:33 PM
newsandinfo  This archipelago where Columbus discovered the New World, and Hemingway fished, has long been a winter hideaway for the super rich, the titled and the famous, protecting their privacy and often their fortunes in lush enclaves far from the cruise ship crowd.

Until now, the 700 plus islands have escaped the global real-estate rush for a simple reason: “We have a limited supply of inventory,” explained John Christie of HG Christie, a Nassau real estate agency established in 1922, when the country was still a British colony. That is about to change…

Read the article:
Tide of Investment Sweeps Bahamas
By Nancy Beth Jackson
International Herald Tribune
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/18/properties/rebahamas.php