Vis served as a Yugoslav military base until 1989; Lastovo is further out still. Both missed the Adriatic’s first development wave entirely — no 1970s concrete, no package-tourism stock. What they have instead: stone towns, working fishing fleets and coves that still require effort to reach.
Access is the moat. Ferry frequency is limited, there is no serious airport, and building permits on protected coastline move slowly. The same constraints that kept developers out now keep prices a generation behind Hvar — and keep the product authentic. This is the Adriatic’s remaining buy-the-frontier trade.
Two things: a fast-catamaran upgrade of the Split–Vis line and any relaxation of building restrictions. Both are debated; neither is decided. Until then, the southern frontier compounds slowly — the desk treats Vis as a hold-and-watch market, not a momentum play.
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