If James Bond had a favourite destination, the Bahamas would surely come close. The Caribbean nation’s backdrop of sun, sand and warm seas has featured in multiple Bond movies, impressing Sean Connery so much that he made it his permanent home in the 1990s.
Where Connery led, others followed. The Bahamas is the Caribbean’s busiest destination for private jets according to the operator NetJets, with air traffic up 14 per cent since 2021, a sign of the wealth hidden among the swaying palms. And while North Americans have traditionally been the main buyers, Europeans are now arriving in numbers, often looking for a main home or a holiday bolt hole, reports James Burdess of Savills. HG Christie, an affiliate of Christie’s International Real Estate, says
