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Mandarin Oriental Residences, Grand Cayman

St James Point, Grand Cayman. Mandarin Oriental. Forty-two homes on seventy acres of forest — the brand's first new build in the Caribbean.

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Two buildings, two ways of living. At St James Point on Grand Cayman's southern tip, 70 acres of maritime forest with 2,700 feet of shore hold Mandarin Oriental's first purpose-built Caribbean project: twenty Beach House residences above a 91-key resort and twenty-two in Ocean House, a separate building on the iron-shore cliffs by the Paris practice AW2, whose penthouse of more than 12,000 square feet is listed at USD 37 million. Ground was broken in February 2025 for early 2028, with more than two-fifths sold by word of mouth beforehand.

Cayman title is unusually plain, and the register records it because so few of its entries can: foreign buyers hold freehold through the Land Registry, with no annual property tax and no capital gains tax, and a one-time stamp duty that rose to ten per cent above CI$2 million on 1 January 2026. The site is 70 acres in the announcement and 'over 60' in one account; the sales company, not the hotel group, is the offeror.

Who it is not for

Not for a buyer who wants Seven Mile Beach: this is the quiet, wooded south shore.

Sources

  • hotelsmag.com 20.02.2025 (the brand's first new-build resort and residential project in the Caribbean; ground broken that month for completion in early 2028; developed by Melkonian Capital Management and RAL Companies; Beach House of 20 residences above the 91-key resort and Ocean House of 22 in a private building on the iron shore; more than 40 per cent sold by word of mouth before launch; 70 acres of tropical forest at St James Point with 2,700 feet of oceanfront, 35 feet above sea level
  • jamesedition.com 25.03.2026 (Ocean House by the Paris firm AW2 of Reda Amalou and Stéphanie Ledoux: 22 residences with a curved façade, limestone, marble and brass, fluted oak kitchens; the Ocean House Penthouse of more than 12,000 sq ft, half of it outdoors, listed at USD 37 million
  • moresidencesgrandcayman.com (42 residences in all
  • moresidencesgrandcayman.com — fact sheet, July 2025 (SJP Development Corp and SJP Condo Corp the sole offerors; Mandarin Oriental neither owner nor offeror and making no representation about construction or return
  • reallifecaribbean.com (a site of over 60 acres — against the 70 in the announcement — on the south shore, with maritime forest and hiking trails, a breakwater making calm swimming water
  • lecomble.com, September 2026 (foreign buyers hold full freehold title through the Land Registry; no annual property tax and no capital gains tax; a one-time stamp duty raised to 10 per cent above CI$2 million on 1 January 2026
  • mandarinoriental.com — upcoming residences
  • irgcayman.com; Knight Frank, The Residence Report 2025-2026, p. 13 (named as 'The Residences at Mandarin Oriental Grand Cayman')

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Classified by The Resort Collection House · Edition 2026 · PR-D-415

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In the journal

23.09.2026 · No country given, run 17 — Grand Cayman, where the title is the simplest thing in the record

Mandarin Oriental Residences, Grand Cayman — forty-two homes in two buildings on seventy acres at the island's southern tip, due in early 2028 — is the brand's first new-build project in the Caribbean, and more than two-fifths of it sold before the launch.

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No investment-migration rule has been established for this jurisdiction. The register records nothing it has not sourced.

The register publishes the facts and the rule; it does not say whether any purchase qualifies. Eligibility attaches to a sale, not to a building, and the register is not immigration counsel.