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work, where we started doing renovations and fit-outs for offices, and we also did some high- end, custom homes. Last year, we won the best single-family unit at the International Property Awards.” (The International Property Awards, first presented in 1995, are open to residential and commercial property professionals from around the globe. They celebrate the highest levels of achievement by companies operating in all sectors of the property and real estate industry.) In fact, Encompass won two IPA best sin- gle-family home awards, last year, for its Sun Serenity, a 7,800-sq.-ft., luxury, oceanfront villa, complete with a rooftop, sunset terrace, a 70-ft. pool, and six bedrooms (that include four sec- ond-floor master suites), situated in the beach community of Cayman Kai at Rum Point Beach. It won, first, for being the best Caribbean prop- erty, and, then, for being the Best Single Resi- dential Property in the World. Most recently, Encompass has moved into de- veloping its own properties. Its opening gambit is SeaHaven, a six-building development com- prised of 13, two or three bedroom villas with roof terraces, private docks, and garages, on a pristine, navigable waterway on the island’s North Sound, which Kline says is now selling. In response to this broad spectrum of suc- cessful ventures, the company has been invited to work in other Caribbean locales, but so far, it has declined the offers. “We found that we have ENCOMPASS LIMITED so much opportunity here in Cayman, that it didn’t make sense for us to pursue anything off island, at the moment,” Kline says. So for now - at least - Kline, his wife Tracey, Encompass’s Marketing Manager, and the company’s staff of 50, will stay at home. Kline believes that Encompass’s main strength, as a true design/build firm, is being able to take a project from conception to com- pletion. “We feel like we’re very strong on design and because we have a great construction back- ground, there’s some very good synergy where we can bring good construction principles into the design process to make sure things are de- signed properly, efficiently, on budget, and with the intention of where we’re ultimately trying to go. That’s a pretty important part of us being successful. In Cayman, I don’t know of another company that’s exactly like us, where we can handle everything from the architecture to the development work to the construction and interior design. And because we’re designing it and building it, we understand what the client’s vision is, and we’re able to find opportunities, even during construction. So our projects have a tendency to evolve and be better than what they were as originally conceived and after the drawings have been completed.” Adding yet another competitive advantage, Kline relates that while other project managers might pick up different crews at different times with different skill sets for a particular job, En- compass keeps its hands around the quality of its work by handpicking its crews, training them, Encompass Ltd.’s Eric and Tracey Kline accepting the award for Best International Property in the Single Unit Developer Category from Lord Liverpool, President of the International Property Awards Syndicate, at the 2017 Global Awards Gala at The Savoy in London.