Properties For Sale in Cuba

My aunt Doreen in Havana, March 2014



Property for sale in Cuba? Don't worry, you are not going mad, you really can buy and sell as well as rent properties all over Cuba. Since 2011 the ruling Junta has come to its senses and allowed owners to buy and sell properties, something that has been banned for decades.

The Cuban economy is in tatters, even though Russia has just wiped 90 million dollars of debt, decades of neglect and the American embargo has produced a sterile economy and now that Fidel Castro has handed over the running of the country to his brother Raul, some reforms have been made.

There are still mountains of red tape of course and if you want to buy a Cuban property you have to be a resident, although there are ways around that as well but if you do fancy a bit of Cuban real estate then check out one of our link partners websites, Havana Houses

Havana Houses are located, as the name would suggest, in Havana itself and they have a large portfolio of Havana properties for sale and rent, you can also contact them direct. Havana Houses have English, Spanish, Dutch and other languages so you will be understood, no matter what part of the world you come from.

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Home sweet home.

To see how far you have travelled you really do need to look back, that’s my philosophy, you may have a different idea. With this in mind I found a really good set of photographs and a small story to accompany them on the Al Jazeera.com website. The photographs are by Alison McCauley and they are as beautiful as they are pathetic. Cuba Property  

The photographs are of some of the most beautiful buildings in Havana, Cuba, buildings that have been allowed to fall into complete ruins but still are what some people actually called ‘Home’ Historical buildings such as the Hotel Bristol in central Havana, left to go to ruin but still occupied by former employees. I wonder what the people who stayed in this grand hotel in the thirties and forties would think if they could see what has become of this once beautiful Cuban lady?

The photographs also show the absolute insolvency of the Castro led regime as far as providing homes for the Cuban people is concerned and in maintaining some of the most beautiful and iconic buildings anywhere in the Caribbean. Please take a look at the Al Jazeera Blog and the Alison McCauley photograph’s and see for yourself the state of these Cuba buildings.

There is, however, hope: Castro and the regime has, since 2011, allowed the buying and selling of Cuban property and this is establishing a Cuba property market, this in turn will drive the need to both build and renovate properties all over Cuba, not just in Havana. Check out the latest Cuban property on Havana Houses website.

Take a look at other Cuba photos from Alison's portfolio Cuba Photos