The island of New Providence, in the Bahamas, has long been a popular vacation destination: Travelers from the United States, Canada and elsewhere visit for the beaches and the snorkeling, scuba diving and fishing.

When it comes to accommodations, they have their pick of both high-end and affordable beachfront resorts, including in the capital of the Bahamas, Nassau. (New Providence was not affected by Hurricane Dorian, which caused severe damage to some areas of the Bahamas in August.)

Today, New Providence has at least one more draw: a handful of new or soon-to-open luxury residential communities — Albany, Baha Mar Residences and the Residences at GoldWynn — have made the roughly 80-square-mile island increasingly attractive to wealthy buyers from abroad.

Nick Damianos, the owner of Damianos Sotheby’s International Realty in the Bahamas, said his company has seen a 15 percent increase in residential sales in New Providence to foreign buyers in the past decade; he declined to be more specific.