Seven Beachfront Titles in a Row. Havannah Harbour, Efate.

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This does not happen. Beachfront on Havannah Harbour comes up one title at a time, years apart, and it goes fast. Seven in a row, held together, on one of the best stretches of coast in the country. Ask anyone who has been hunting land here how often they have seen that. They will tell you never. Lots 19 to 25 hold 252 metres of the shore of Port Havannah. One point two three hectares. Seven separate registered titles. Buy one and build the house. Buy three and choose your own neighbours. Buy the lot and own the whole beach. Go and stand on it at five in the afternoon. That is when it lands. This coast faces due west, so the sun drops into the water behind Lelepa Island every single evening of the year. The bay runs clear and shallow off the sand, then falls away into deep blue. Yachts sit at anchor out front because Havannah Harbour is one of the most protected deepwater anchorages in Vanuatu. The Americans worked that out during the war and parked a fleet in it. Look straight across and you are looking at Chief Roi Mata’s Domain, Vanuatu’s UNESCO World Heritage site. That is the view from your front lawn. Not a drive away. Across the water. And the land is ready to go. Flat, open grass. Big shade trees already standing, the kind you wait thirty years for. A short walk to the sand. The sealed ring road runs along the back of every lot, so you are in and out year round, and the power is already on that road. The lots either side are built on and lived in. You are buying into a settled stretch of coast with neighbours, not clearing bush and starting from nothing. The titles: Every lot runs road to sea with close to 35 metres of frontage. Depths open from 38 metres in the south out to 64 metres in the north, so the further north you go the more room you get. Bare land is the good news. You build it your way from the first line on the page. Set the house back off the sand. Open it up to the trade winds. Put solar and rainwater in the design from day one instead of bolting it on in year five. Build to Vanuatu cyclone standards and you have a home that feeds itself, waters itself, and shrugs off the season. They are not making any more of this coast. Come and walk it. Sam Lewis, Ray White Vanuatu.