Furnished at $285,000, Golf Cart Included — 2-Bedroom Villa in Perla Marina, Cabaret

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What exactly is included in the sale?

The villa comes fully furnished and move-in ready, with an established pool and garden, a modernised kitchen, and an on-site generator. The sellers are also including their electric golf cart with the sale.

That last item matters more than it sounds. Perla Marina is a community where residents run a golf cart rather than a car for daily trips to the beach, the café, and neighbours’ houses — so the buyer starts with the thing they’d otherwise go out and buy in week one.

What is Perla Marina, and what’s actually inside the gates?

Perla Marina is a gated beachfront community on the Dominican Republic’s North Coast, sitting between Sosúa and Cabarete and directly beside Playa Encuentro. It has 24/7 security and controlled access, paved roads, shaded walking paths, and mature tropical landscaping — including a stand of trees estimated at around 200 years old that residents treat as the community’s landmark.

What sets it apart from most gated communities on this coast is that the amenities are inside the gates rather than a drive away: Natura Cabana Boutique Hotel & Spa sits on the beach within the community, along with Ceiba Café, Karaya, Pizzeria La Ceiba, and Cabarete Eco Lodge. There’s an oceanfront walkway and semi-private beach access at Sol de Plata.

How far is the walk to the beach?

Walking distance to the community’s semi-private beach access — no car, no shuttle, no parking. From the villa you can also walk to the restaurants and to the spa and yoga retreat at Natura Cabana.

Walkability is the specific thing Perla Marina is known for among North Coast communities. It’s mature, leafy, and low-density, and residents use it on foot and by cart. That’s a genuinely different daily experience from either town centre, where you drive to most things.

Is the villa genuinely move-in ready?

Move-in ready as stated. The kitchen has already been updated to a modern specification, the furniture is included, and the pool and garden areas are established rather than newly planted.

For a buyer arriving from North America or Europe, that removes the two hardest parts of a Caribbean purchase: sourcing furniture locally, and managing a renovation from another time zone.

What happens during a power outage?

The villa has its own generator on site. Grid power on the North Coast is real but not continuous, so nearly every serious home here runs a generator or an inverter and battery bank — it turns an outage from an event into a non-event.

Here it’s already installed and included, so it isn’t a post-closing expense. You arrive with the lights staying on.

How is this villa priced relative to the market?

The asking price is $285,000 USD, below recent sold comparables in Perla Marina. We provide the specific closed comparables alongside the price so you can see exactly where it sits.

Because the furniture and the golf cart are included, the effective entry cost is lower again — those are real costs a buyer of an unfurnished villa absorbs separately.

Can foreigners buy this property?

Yes, and it’s straightforward. Foreign buyers in the Dominican Republic hold the same freehold ownership rights as Dominican nationals, with no surcharge based on nationality and no separate approval process. The country uses a Torrens registered-title system in which the state guarantees registered ownership.

Buyers who can’t be here in person close remotely all the time, and we handle that process end to end. Most of our buyers come from Canada, the United States, and Europe.

Is Perla Marina a good location for rental income?

It performs steadily, and that’s the appeal. Perla Marina draws longer stays and repeat guests — families, wellness visitors drawn by Natura Cabana, surfers heading to Encuentro, and remote workers — rather than the short high-season churn that Cabarete’s beachfront strip sees.

A furnished villa with a private pool, a generator, and a cart for guests to use sits at the stronger end of that range, and it’s close to the beach access points, which is the variable that matters most within the community.

What else are the owners selling?

Beyond the golf cart included in the sale, the owners also have a vehicle and a side-by-side they’re willing to sell to the buyer, with price open to discussion.

Those are handled as separate transactions from the villa purchase. For a buyer relocating, it’s a straightforward way to arrive with transport already sorted.

Who is this villa best suited to?

A buyer who wants to arrive and live — a relocating couple, a remote worker, a retiree, or an investor who wants a property earning from the first month without a furnishing project.

Perla Marina is a walkable community with neighbours nearby and a real social life, so it suits people who want to be part of something rather than tucked away on their own. That’s the character of the place, and residents choose it for exactly that.