Vanterpool family scores big with global real estate collab
The BVI’s real estate market is set for a major boost as the MHV Group officially launched their partnership with global luxury real estate firm Engel & Völkers at a ceremony on November 14.
The new Engel and Volkers office, located on Main Street, Road Town, positions the BVI as the newest home of one of the world’s most recognised high-end property brands, and marks the first Engel & Völkers franchise in the Eastern Caribbean.
Dalan Vanterpool, Director of Marketing for MHV Group, said the partnership has been in the making for more than a year and a half.
“We’ve been doing real estate in the BVI for a number of years under a different brand. We wanted to elevate the offering … and give people access not just to local clients and local listings, but to a global network across 45 different countries,” he said.
Engel & Völkers, known internationally for luxury property services, yacht brokerage, and premium asset management, brings a level of service that MHV describes as unmatched. Vanterpool said even the details inside the office are governed by an extensive brandbook — from specific fragrances to the type of orchid on display, depending on whether clients are visiting.
“The level of detail we pay attention to when it comes to clients: it’s not just trying to get a transaction through. We’re trying to build lifelong relationships,” he explained.
The partnership with Engel and Volkers also opens the door to a range of services from right here in the BVI, including yacht sales and listings that can now reach buyers as far away as Europe and the United States.
“If you have a yacht in the BVI, you’re not just posting it somewhere on Facebook. We can post it on our global network, and you might get a buyer from Luxembourg or New York,” Vanterpool said.
The new partnership also adds to the growing business footprint of the Vanterpool family, who have expanded their presence in the BVI over several decades. Through the MHV Group and affiliated companies, the family has developed supermarkets, hospitality ventures, restaurants, and now a strengthened real estate arm, shaping a multi-generational legacy of investment and growth across the territory.
MHV’s partnership with Engel & Völkers now places the BVI alongside other high-value markets such as the Cayman Islands and The Bahamas, where the brand is already established. With Santo Domingo and Punta Cana set to open next, the BVI franchise is joining a fast-expanding regional network.
“This has been a long time coming,” Vanterpool said. “We’re excited to be part of a global brand … bringing a different level of luxury, a different level of service, and a marked difference in how we do business in the BVI.”
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Hope BVI Islanders got their money together because Mark them aint really trying to sell to ninjas. Tortola will be looking like St. John real soon.
Tortola looking like St John would be a God Send f. Currently it looks like Lucifer’s Den. BVIslanders with property could stay or sell at prices worth selling at worthy profits and reside elsewhere if they so desire or have rental property at worthwhile prices.
Crime would become a thing of the past referred to as “dem demic” not to be confused with “pandemic”.
Hey ..a Caribbean styled MONACO or a St Barts … can only dream of such Blessings!
Hush your WHITE SQ*NT white added to anything is destruction. Tell them go Europe and London to by property you all don’t watch news? These people sick. Hope you all own weapons cause man going run up in yuh phuk anyways.
The BVIslanders,unless I am in lala land on another planet, are the land owners of their BVI.
BVI becoming like St John would be a well deserved Blessing ,financially,socially and economically according to my calculation kching kching kchinhg all the way to the bank.
Smh money money root of all sellouts you all going learn real soon.
Not all money is good money.
Oops! White people don’t live to see a black family possessing such wealth and tracks of real estate, so they want the illusion of black empowerment cut and bring these real estate state assets under white supervision, that will put the vanterpool family into oblivion by the public and the world emasculating them.
The white man always have a neocolinial agenda over black people, the vanterpool heads and shoulders are too high.
Very hard to follow your comment @Eldread. Were you trying to say that Mark Vanterpool found a pot of gold when he was overseeing some projects while he was in Govt?
I agree and Mark them is the PERFECT sell out. You can make a good life someplace else cause when you not actually indigenous who cares. SHOW ME THE MONEY I GIVE YOU MY SOUL. To much local young men have or had prime property doing the right things with their money. Caucasians tired of that crap …
Eldread, you are a racist.
Every Vanterpool grinning from ear to ear.
Good. No more selling out VI land to foreigners.
Mark wa**ing that money boiiii
Ah yes selling more homes that locals can’t afford to keep the market prices high and raise even higher thanks to all the wealthy outsiders. Hope we don’t end up like Jamaica.
Hardly any local in middle and lower class of meet the demand of SSb homes. Instead y’all look into we high bank interest rates and cost of living thanks to no price control
Jamaicans don’t own their land!@!@
BVIslanders are unique in that regards…they have title and ownership to their lands snd is 1 of the few with such privilege.T b are are many Hamaicanscwho cannot grasp the re a litu of b owning lanf…it isxan unknown vomncrptvto b them…they have been Independentfor half a century and reside onlandthey do not own…literally squatters of the state.
Caribbean history is missing in our ,BvI
BVIsslandeesxwere given permission I n to own land and to farm such land.
Exactly how many real estate businesses can we have in this place?? And those that are foreign owned that basically promote white ownership and pricing blacks out of the buying market??? They come in with their Trojan horses. And the house ninja mentality nah help we locals.
Why they don’t sell their indigenous property between their indigenous selves. Please.
Can we officially change the name of the BVI to the British Vanterpool Islands now?? What don’t they own? Rock, Quitos, Pussers. Best Cup, 1/3 of supermarkets in BVi, Eureka, Bpugainvillea, a large portions of buildings…..
Pennies from heaven or…..??
A so we get it. A so we lose it.