The owners, Don and Lesley Ward are from England and have lived in Antigua and Barbuda for over forty years. Don recently retired as Managing Partner of the Antigua office of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Prior to that, he had been involved in other developments, notably Antigua Village, which was the first condominium development in Antigua. He and his wife have had several homes in Antigua, but acquired lands for The Peninsula, a few years ago and built their substantial home with guest cottage on Plot #1.

The constant and reliable Trade winds blowing over a cool Atlantic keep temperatures at between 78 to 80 degrees. You seldom need air conditioning in the living areas but bedrooms are well served by a split unit. Most homes are oriented towards the Easterly trade winds.

Allow US$250 to US$350 per square foot of covered area depending on floor coverings, windows, doors, finishings, kitchens. bathroom, etc. This will include the pool.

There are some excellent architects, some originally from Antigua and several expatriates. They will help you select the best contractor, of which there are many. At the Peninsula, we use Andrew Goodenough to assist in design and he has done most of the architectural work for the houses built to date.

This is an approved project and planning permission can be attained. The Developer must first approve the plans for everybody’s protection. The outlined plan and whether a one or two storey house can be built will be agreed before the sale. The final plans get approval from The Development Control Authority.

The covenants are very straightforward and will not offend anyone who is respectful and courteous to their neighbours.

There is a growing demand for villa rentals and the Savills Antigua office can certainly take care of this for you. There are two rental seasons (high season Dec 15-April 15). 

Five minutes by road brings you to a pristine white sand beach. There are two hotels there and Long Bay has a delightful beach bar that is not crowded. There is a beach barbeque on Thursdays. The beach is safe and has good snorkelling. Antigua is famous for its beaches and many of these are within easy reach by boat. You don’t need anything fancy. A small open boat and outboard will do. Pack your drinks and lunch, walk onto your jetty, get in your boat and take off through the reef to one of the islands and you will probably have the beach to yourself.

There is a village half a mile away, which has a couple of stores that supply basics. For more comprehensive shopping, St. Johns, the capital city, is a mere half an hour away. The Epicurean supermarket at Woods Center is excellent with the shopping center providing virtually one stop shopping for goods, banking and other services. There are also top quality, well-run outlets for foodstuffs and liquor closer to the development.

There are no restaurants at the development. However, there are some wonderful restaurants, mostly Italian, a short drive away. English Harbour and Falmouth Harbour are a short 20 minutes’ drive on a scenic coastal road.

Beautiful tropical climate characterized by balmy winds and pristine views. Temperatures are in the eighties by day and seventies at night but there is very low humidity. September and October are the warmer months because the trade winds diminish, but still pleasant and cooler than most temperate places. The Antiguan “winter” rarely sees temperatures below 60 F during the coldest of nights.

Hurricanes can occur in September although the official hurricane season is June to October. You build your house with a pitched roof, shutters and take care to ensure that your house and patio roofs are properly ‘tied’ with specially designed hurricane straps (small galvanised steel brackets) These are placed so that they are essentially invisible, and you should not have a problem. There is no danger of tidal surges at the Peninsula due to the raised elevation.

Earthquakes can occur in most Caribbean islands. In Antigua, they are very mild, infrequent and usually last no more than a couple of seconds. The last earthquake in Antigua was in 1974. Again, there is no real danger as long as the house has been properly constructed.

Medical treatment is high quality and readily available, and Antigua has a state of the art new 185 bed hospital and the Adelyn Clinic. There is an air ambulance service to Puerto Rico (45 minutes) and the US. There is also a very good hospital in the neighbouring French island of Guadeloupe.