Technology & Business

For many people in Jamaica, the idea of a Multiple Listing Service (MLS) already feels fairly advanced. Listings are shared among brokerages. A property that appears on one brokerage website will often appear, in some form, across several others. It may also appear on international portals like Realtor.com and a handful of satellite platforms. But imagine something far bigger. Imagine a Jamaican...

Every few months another headline appears about Miami’s luxury property boom. Billionaires are buying up islands.Homes are selling for $100 million.Tech founders and hedge fund managers are building compounds with helipads and private docks. The narrative is clear: Miami is the new Gilded Age playground. But step back for a moment and ask a simple question. If Miami is a gold rush… what...

Every so often a city captures the world’s imagination and becomes shorthand for wealth, ambition and excess. In recent years, Miami has been that city. Headlines have described a modern-day gold rush along the barrier islands of South Florida. Tech founders, hedge fund managers and billionaires are buying up trophy properties with ocean frontage, building sprawling compounds with private docks and...

We are living through a revolution. Not the kind that announces itself with muskets and marching boots, nor the kind that replaces one flag with another. This one hums quietly in data centres, whispers through smartphones, and calculates behind the scenes while we rebuild homes, businesses, and communities. The question is not whether change is happening. The question is: what kind of change is...

In recent years, conversations about artificial intelligence, transhumanism, and the so-called “uploading” of human consciousness onto silicon have shifted from science fiction into serious public debate. What once sounded like a late-night university argument now appears in boardrooms, tech conferences, and even church halls. The promise is grand: transcend mortality, outsmart disease, redesign the...

If you believe real estate in Jamaica is simply about buying a house in Portmore, selling a lot in St. Ann, or renting an apartment in Kingston, you have already stepped into the market with only half your vision. Land and buildings are the visible part.The real story lies underneath. In Jamaica, real estate is not merely about concrete, zinc fencing, title numbers, or valuation reports. It is about...

When you filter Jamaica’s residential market to properties listed above JMD $90,000,000, you are no longer observing general housing trends. You are studying capital behaviour. This tier represents the top fraction of Jamaica’s residential inventory — a space where decisions are less about affordability and more about asset positioning, land scarcity, lifestyle leverage, and long-term value...

When a hurricane passes, it leaves behind more than debris. It leaves behind exposure. Exposure of drainage systems that were adequate — until they weren’t.Exposure of roofs that met code — but not reality.Exposure of economic models that assume disruption is occasional, not cyclical. Hurricane Melissa did not just damage infrastructure. It revealed assumptions. And that is why the national...

There is something rather profound about a house that has stood for decades. Not just the concrete and steel, not merely the roofline etched against a Caribbean sky — but the life it has quietly held. Birthday dinners. School uniforms ironed at dawn. Storms weathered. Laughter echoing down hallways. It is more than a structure. It is a witness. And in Jamaica, it is often something more...

Across Jamaica, buildings have always done more than provide shelter. A home is where family rhythms unfold. A hotel is where the island’s economy meets the world. A university campus is where ambition takes shape. But something subtle is beginning to change. Artificial intelligence is quietly starting to reshape operational real estate — buildings whose value is created not only by their...