Lapita-Vanuatu-Welcome-Brochure

WELCOME TO

Lapita is an eco-friendly residential/resort development located one of the most beautiful tropical coastlines in the South Pacific.

Surrounded by aquamarine waters with some The entire Lapita development embraces 700 acres of lush green coconut plantation ecologically sustainable development Lapita’s luxury resort and residential land and principles and commitment to architectural villa and land development covers the entire harmony taking in the natural beauty of the western portion of Aore Island. surrounding islands and tropical environment.

Lapita Plantation has around 6 km of coral Pekoa International Airport on Espiritu Santo fringed coastline that feature pristine white is only 20 minutes away. sand beaches, graceful coconut palms and warm tropical waters.

1 WELCOME TO LAPITA

Lapita is an eco-friendly residential/resort development located one of the most beautiful tropical coastlines in the South Pacific.

2 WHAT IS LAPITA?

Lapita is a managed estate that will consist of The developments layout has been thoughtfully private residential land holdings, three resort designed to provide just the right amount of developments, one of which will include an luxury and seclusion while providing a relaxed international standard 9 Hole golf cause, driving tropical resort community atmosphere. range and private runway.

Residential Land Packages

Comprising a limited number of magnificent waterfront and tropical water-view allotments for discerning purchasers who desire complete privacy and independence.

3 Create your Island Retreat Once in a lifetime

This is a rare opportunity to invest in real Always dreamed of owning a holiday house estate in Vanuatu. Lapita Plantation sits on the in Vanuatu? Now is your chance! Real estate coastal fringe of Aore Island, Vanuatu and offers in Vanuatu is quickly disappearing, once the various real estate options. Lapita Plantation allotments have been sold there will be no other land available in Vanuatu Buy a waterfront or water-view block of land & or anywhere in the South Pacific. Seize this build your own dream home. Alternatively buy rare opportunity to own an extraordinary piece one of Lapita’s architecturally designed resort of waterfront real estate in Vanuatu before it villas and enjoy resort living as well as your disappears forever. own private paradise.

Starting from US$267 per month – your island dream is affordable and is a once in a lifetime Live the Life Exotic opportunity.

Invest in some of the most beautiful waterfront real estate in Vanuatu and live out your island An investors dream dreams. It is easy to understand why houses for sale in Vanuatu are so rare. With sun drenched white beaches and vibrant coral reefs teeming Purchasing land or a villa and land package with sea life, Lapita typifies the exotic beauty of in Lapita not only gives you your own slice the South Pacific. Choose from several blocks of paradise – it also represents an astute of land with our luxurious one and two bedroom investment opportunity. Vanuatu real estate villas or envision and build your own architectural is becoming increasingly rare, and with quality fantasy. With several options available, your real accommodation in the region being limited, estate in Vanuatu can be whatever you envision the resort operators will work to generate it to be. accommodation income for you. These elegant and idyllically located properties represent some of the premium houses for sale in Vanuatu.

4 WHAT MAKES VANUATU SO BEAUTIFUL?

What makes the Lapita Plantation so Once the Lapita Plantation allotments have extraordinary is its unrivaled natural beauty; been sold there will be few other similar blocks the effortless access from major Australian and of land for sale in Vanuatu or anywhere in the New Zealand cities; and the relaxed lifestyle. South Pacific offering the exceptional attributes of Lapita Plantation. Land for sale in Vanuatu is With blushing sunsets, whispering palms, an increasingly rare thing, this is an opportunity forests, seas and skies the color of precious not to be missed. jewels, Vanuatu is the stuff of fantasies. Land for sale in Vanuatu is an increasingly rare The subdivision of the coastal fringe of Lapita thing, this is an opportunity not to be missed. Plantation on Aore Island offers astute investors a unique opportunity to share in a luxury tropical lifestyle that others can only dream about.

5 Buy a waterfront allotment & Buy a resort villa & let us build your own dream property manage it for you

For those wishing to purchase land to build Lapita Blue consists of 8 beach front lots their own bungalow we have made available (only 4 remaining!) adjacent to the new a limited number of waterfront allotments. Calypso resort.

Key Features: Key Features:

• All allotments are within meters of the beach • All allotments are within meters of the beach

• All have 30-40m frontages onto white sand • Have the best of both worlds – your own beaches adjoining clear tropical waters private paradise plus all the facilities of a brimming with colorful coral and marine life world class resort.

• Each is slightly elevated allowing a view over • Villas are architecturally designed one the Second Chanel towards the Cumberland (78.5m sq) or two bedroom (156m sq) Mountain Range on Espiritu Santo. • These blocks can be re-subdivided in to 4 lots • Each has been selectively cleared, ready for a small villa development – keep one, sell for construction of your dream home. one or run your own resort

6 GETTING TO LAPITA

Flights

The refurbished Pekoa International Airport on Espiritu Santo is only 20 minutes from Aore, means Lapita Plantation is readily accessible by air.

A number of international airlines service Pekoa International, with Air Vanuatu who code share with Qantas having direct Flights from Brisbane and Sydney, 2.5 and 3.5 hours respectively. Regular Flights from New Zealand, Fiji, Solomon Taxation Islands, Australia and New Caledonia fly into Port Vila with scheduled connecting services Vanuatu has no income or capital gains taxes. to Santo. Tax revenue extends from:

(a) Import duties- which can be considerable and result in imported goods being very From the Airport expensive.

(b) 12.5 % Value Added Tax (VAT) on goods Transfers to Lapita from Pekoa International and services. This is equivalent of the GST are effortless. Regular taxi service from the collection system in Australia and New airport takes only 10 minutes to ‘Lapita Landing’ Zealand. in Luganville for a quick boat trip across the Segond Channel to your luxury private villas Economic development is hindered by and secluded island retreat. dependence on relatively few commodity exports, vulnerability to natural disasters and long distances from main markets and islands. Location of Lapita Foreign Investment Sitting on the same latitude as Port Douglas in Australia, across 1700 km of open Coral Sea, the The overall aim of the Government policy same distance as Port Douglas is to Brisbane, is is to create and foster economic growth. Vanuatu’s Aore Island. To date, the government of Vanuatu have This is the heart of James Michener’s achieved a track record of reasonably sound Adventures in Paradise. Arguably one of economic management with an emphasis on the most beautiful of all South Pacific islands, financial stability. Vanuatu encourages foreign Aore is genuinely unique. Not only due to its investment, and to do so the Government unsurpassed natural beauty and pristine marine enacted a Foreign Investment Act 1998 to environment, but also the warm friendly smiles create a favourable environment for private of the local Ni-Vanuatu people, the balmy sector investment. tropical breezes and the wild native orchids. The Act provided for the establishment of Located in the northern Sanma Province and the Vanuatu Investment Promotion Authority sitting at the foot of Vanuatu’s largest island, (VIPA) which encourages the formulation of a Espiritu Santo, Aore has a tropical ambience transparent and open investment environment that words alone cannot describe: gently as well as faster processing of the investment swaying palms; pristine white sandy beaches; applications. For example we understand that luxuriant vegetation; tropical marine corals and, investments in developments that are likely a myriad of colourful sh species. Added to this to create local employment are sometimes are sunsets that simply take your breath away. provided with an import duty discount or exemption.

7 LOT LOCATIONS

Have you ever dreamed of creating your own island hideaway? The time is now...

T: (+678) 5980005 E: [email protected]

8 PRICE LIST: WATERFRONT BLOCKS

Waterfront Blocks Waterfrontage (m) Land Area (m2) Price ($AUD)

10 29.96 1,246 139,739

11 30.02 1,217 140,000

12 30.28 1,211 140,000

13 30.65 1,125 140,000

14 30.3 1,037 140,000

15 37.06 1,123 172,922

16 31.36 1,068 146,236

17 31.1 1,088 145,113

18 30.13 1,191 140,000 SOLD

19 30.21 1,179 140,000 SOLD

20 30.28 1,174 140,000 SOLD

21 30.69 1,221 140,000

22 30.09 1,303 140,000 SOLD

23 30.34 1,342 140,000

24 29.78 1,526 140,000

25 31.67 1,412 147,772

26 34.53 1,241 161,117

27 31.08 1,128 145,019

28 30.92 1,262 140,000

29 30.27 1,377 140,000

30 30.07 1,270 140,000 WATER VIEW BLOCKS

Water View Price AUD $ Land Area m2 206 70,785 1269 205 69,314 1273 204 48,510 1155 203 64,423 1020 202 56,836 1019 201 66,400 1200 200 66,400 1200 199 70,390 1262 198 64,031 1148 197 62,338 1117 196 66,400 1203

BEACH FRONT BLOCKS

Beach Front Blocks Price AUD $ Land Area m2 Waterfrontage 95 280,000 1,195 30 96 326,690 1,324 35 97 326,690 1,227 35 98 342,558 1,173 36.7 99 255,845 1,140 27.41 100 266,019 1,138 28.5 101 322,956 1,260 34.6 102 365,613 1,339 39.17 103 327,810 1,399 35.12 104 Sold 1,271 33 105 Sold 1,213 32 106 Sold 1,350 30 LAPITA BEACH CLUB & TOURS

Lapita Beach Club

Price: AUD $30 per person AUD $5 to pre-book hammock 2500 VT

Designed to immerse you in all Melanesia has to offer, enjoy a day at the picturesque Lapita Beach. Take a short cruise through the Segond Channel to the welcome drink of your choice, then spend the day your own pace, taking advantage of our walking trails, Beach Club, hire, or hammocks.

Lapita Plantation

The only operational Plantation on Aore Island, Lapita Plantation has around 6 km of tropical coral fringed coastline that feature pristine white sand beaches and 700 acres of graceful coconut palms. Lapita Plantation this day continues to produce some of the best Copra, Cattle and fresh Produce.

10 TOURS

Lapita Plantation Tour Walking Trails

Pick Up: San Michelle Palm Row Jungle Price: AUD $60 per person Length: 2km 4000 VT Difficulty: Easy

Let us show you what makes our Plantation A walk through Aore Jungle and our special in one of our 4WDs. As our Plantation Coconut rows. is constantly evolving so is our tour which will be tailored to best explore that day’s plantation Coastal Fringe Trail operations. Length: 3km Difficulty: Easy Lapita Bay Adventure A trail that explores our coastal fringe and Beaches. Pick Up: San Michelle

Price: AUD $70 per person Plantation Trail 5000 VT Length: 4km

Lapita bay is one of the plantation’s hidden Difficulty: Medium jewels. From San Michelle, be whisked away on A trail that explores the actively running an Island long boat to Lapita Plantation from plantation and its various processing areas the traverse the plantation in one of our 4WDs for Cattle, Copra and Vegetables. to Lapita bay where the remainder of the tour will be spent snorkeling and swimming in the tropical waters.

11 HOW TO BUY LAND AT LAPITA

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

1. How do we get to Lapita 2. Where do we stay? Planation Aore Island Vanuatu?

Qantas and Air Vanuatu have a direct flight We recommend you stay at Ratua Island from Brisbane to Espirutu Santo every Tuesday Resort, which is 10 minutes from Lapita. Book and returning on a Monday. From Sydney, directly with Ratua and get the friends of Lapita Monday is a direct flight to Espiritu Santo with discount contact Peter at Ratua Island Resort. connecting flights back to Sydney Wednesday Web: www.ratua.com and Saturday. There are flights every day to the East Coast of Australia. (Pekoa International Email: [email protected] Airport is 30 minutes from Lapita)

Brisbane to Espiritu Santo 2.5 hours 3. How to get to Lapita from Sydney to Espiritu Santo 4 hours including short stopover in Port Vila your resort or hotel?

Website: www.airvanuatu.com When you stay at Ratua Island Resort a transfer Phone: 1300 780 737 to Lapita is included, from other hotels or resorts the staff at Lapita Beach Club can pick It is best book direct with Qantas or Air you up. Vanuatu, Expida, webjet and others can send you on some strange routes. 4. Can Australians buy land in Vanuatu?

Yes.

12 5. How do I build my dream 10. What happens to our holiday home at Lapita? deposit?

At Lapita we don’t just sell you the land and Lapita has Solicitors based in Sydney Australia, walk away. We are happy to help manage your all deposits are paid in to their trust account. build at no extra cost. We recommend two PLN Solicitors: builders and both have extensive experience in building holiday homes for Australians in Contact John Ridgway Vanuatu. Email: [email protected]

KD Enterprise Ltd: Phone: 02 9188 9638 Website: www.pln.com.au Contact: Kim Dinh Email: [email protected] Phone: +678 37300 11. How do we find lawyer or Website: www.kdentreprise.com accountant in Vanuatu?

Barret & Partners Port Vila is a one stop shop 6. How much does it cost for all your investment, accounting, immigration to build? and conveyancing needs.

Contact: Mark Safford This is an expansive question but as a rule of Email: [email protected] thumb building cost starts at $1,200 per meter and from there the sky is the limit. Website: www.bap-international.com

7. Do I need insurance? 12. What happens to my holiday home when I am not there? Yes, in Northern Vanuatu storms and cyclones are not that bad, it only when they head south Lapita Beach Club is happy to manage your to they pick up speed and intensity. We strongly property and rent as a holiday let Villa or you recommend building to Australian standards for can lock it up and Lapita Private Security will cyclone. look after your property for a minimal charge. Prises very with different properties and sizes. Insurance Aon Vanuatu www.aon.com/vanuatu 13. Do we need a boat?

8. Can we pay in Australian No, but they are fun. dollars?

Yes. 14. How far away are schools, shops and where can I go for 9. How do we get finance? lunch?

Lapita Beach Club is open to the Public from The banks in Vanuatu are no different than 9 am till 4 pm. Owner and gests of Lapita Australia. You can lend in Australian dollars residence the Beach Cub is open for sunset using your holiday home at Lapita as security. drinks and dinner. Within 10 minutes of Lapita We recommend National Bank of Vanuatu they are 4 resorts that are open for breakfast, Contact Serge Taga lunch and dinner.

Email: [email protected] Schools, there are few good schools in Phone: +678 22201 Luganville town ship. Luganville International Website: www..nbv..vu School is run to a NSW curriculum. Daily free service form Lapita to Luganville.

13 HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED OF CREATING YOUR OWN ISLAND HIDEAWAY? THE TIME IS NOW...

T: (678) 5980005 E: [email protected]

Matthew Woon Managing Director

Lapita Plantation Aore Island Tel: Vanuatu (+678) 5980005 Skype: Lapita.office Email: [email protected]

Website: www.aorerealestate.com