In the modern property market, a real estate agency’s website is no longer a digital brochure — it is the front door to the business. Clients wander through it long before they ever step into a physical office. And yet, behind this digital doorway lies an often-overlooked reality: your website’s legal obligations are shaped less by where it is hosted and more by whom it serves.
It sounds deceptively simple, but many agencies miss the point. They imagine that placing a website on a server in Germany, the United States, or Singapore somehow binds them to that country’s legal framework. The assumption feels intuitive — after all, buildings obey local planning laws, so surely websites must obey local server laws?
The truth is far more global — and far more relevant to a Caribbean real estate market expanding its reach beyond physical borders.
