Cabo Verde is an archipelago of ten islands six hundred kilometres off the West African coast, close enough to Europe for a direct six-hour flight and far enough south for a genuinely dry, warm climate through the northern winter. Each island reads differently. Sal and Boa Vista are flat, sand-driven and tourism-led; Santiago carries the administrative and commercial weight; São Vicente is the cultural centre; Santo Antão is mountainous and agricultural. Buyers who assume the islands are interchangeable usually buy in the wrong place. The property market is small, dollar- and euro-influenced, and dominated by resort-linked stock with a thinner supply of independent villas and town houses. Rental yields can be strong where management is competent, and weak where it is not — the operator matters more than the building.