Island Acreage for sale in Belize: Land Only (Listed 2010-01-22)

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Overview

Turneffe Island, Island, Cayes, Belize District

MLS#: ACRE-83
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  • Property ValueBZE$1,200,000
  • Property AddressTurneffe Island, Land Only, Island, Cayes, Belize District, Belize
  • TypeAcreage
  • Lot Size Area40 acres

Island Address

Turneffe Island, Land Only, Island, Cayes, Belize District, Belize

Description

Land in Turneffe Islands for sale

1000 feet beach front (approx)
Between the Barrier Reef & the Blue Hole (it is also surrounded by reef)
40 acres of land - NO SWAMP

Good soil, also excellent for plants.
Excellent for resort or eco tourism, virgin land
Swallow crystal clear water
Excellent for fishing, diving, Kayaking and sailing
Close to Turneffe lagoons, not far from reef
White sandy beach
Less than one hour from Belize City
Great potential for development
Lots of trees to conserve
Prime land that will be developing pretty soon since most has been sold.
This is the new place for tourism in the Cayes
Design your own resort or business at your taste, as you dream it!!!

Features

Belize Greatest Dive Sites (Turneffe Islands)

The greatest dive sites in Belize are found just around the country’s three enchanting coral atolls: Turneffe Islands, Glover Reef and the Light House Reef located seaward of the barrier reef. Turneffe Islands is the largest and closest of the three in distance from Belize City. There are seventy diving sites that surround Turneffe Atolls. Although Turneffe is well known for wall diving, there are many shallow sea gardens excellent for snorkeling and scuba diving inside the reef. It has good spots for diving day and night. In the area there are enormous schools of grunts, groupers, snappers, bonefish, permit, spadefish and jacks. Many sites along the east and west sides of the island features craggy drop-offs laced with sponges and black corals, and nooks and crannies where turtles and nurse sharks like to hide. One of the most popular sites to dive and fish in Belize is in Turneffe Islands which has crystal clear water.

Turneffe is also for kayaking and sailing apart form fishing and diving. Turneffe Islands are worldwide known for its flats action, and anglers will feel right at home at Turneffe Flats. The beach white sandy fronts are excellent for developing nicely for tourism.

Turneffe is the largest of Belize three atolls and is located approximately 25 miles of Belize City which is about 50 minutes boat ride. It is home to pristine little Cayes cloaked in palms which encircle the crystal clear lagoon waters. Orchids abounding the lagoons and inky blue waters plummet to thousands of feet not far out side the atoll and only few yards from the world’s second largest barrier reef. It offers world class fishing both flats and offshore and diving and snorkeling.

By the Northeast of the Turneffe Islands is the famous Blue Hole which is a diver’s dream. The spectacular perfect blue circle is about 1000 feet in diameter and more than 400 feet deep with cavern with the largest underwater dripstones ever found.

Listing Provided By

Arabella Chambers Limited

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  • Arabella Chambers - Belize Real Estate
  • Mile 59 Western Hwy
  • Unitedville Village, Cayo District

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As a truly professional real estate company Arabella Chambers does not accept listings until we have seen proper proof of ownership such as a TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE, DEED or REGISTERED LAND CERTIFICATE. There have been cases where buyers have found out, the hard way that they were not the only owners of their piece of paradise.

At Arabella Chambers that will NEVER be the case. We work not only to find and provide our clients with that dream house, property, or perfect investment. We make sure that our great clients find trough our professionalism a “stress free” real estate experience in Belize.

Investing in Belize

Buying property in Belize is not a difficult process, but it does take time and commitment. Thanks to revised legislation, and on the proviso you have all your documentation in place, procuring your place in paradise could now take up to three-to-six months.

Foreign Ownership...

Foreigners can purchase to own land in Belize, Freehold.

There is no required permits by GOB for any foreigner to invest in real estate in Belize.

A Speculation Tax was implemented in 2002, which is a 5% of the undeveloped value of the land set by the Department of Natural Resources, and applies to property 300 acres and more. This Speculation Land Tax was passed to encourage large land holders to developed their property and not to sit on it to speculate. The property tax and Speculation Tax is due 1st of April of each year.

Property Taxes:

Property tax generally consists of between 1-1.5% of the value set by the Department of Natural Resources.

Property Exchange or Transfer:
Any form of transfer of property; whether sold, exchanged or given by way of a gift, there are closing costs related to these transactions. The charges are certain percentage per transaction.

Purchase of Land by Non-Belizean:

Non-Belizean pays 10% of the selling Consideration as a Stamp Duty or Transfer Tax to the GOB -Government of Belize.

Registration and fees are very minimal.

Lawyer's Fee for Legal Services for Conveying property is approximately 1-3% of selling consideration. Each individual is entitled to seek own personal Legal Council.

Approximative closing cost: 11-13% of the selling consideration.

 

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Belize Fast Facts


Location

south of the Yucatan Peninsula, east of Guatemala, in Central America

Time

Central Standard Time (GMT -6), no observance of DST

Size

180 miles long, 68 miles wide

Population

280,000 residents

Language

English

Currency

Belizean dollar, fixed exchange rate, = $0.50(USD)

Capital

Belmopan

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