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Trade, Talent, Capital and the Quiet Repositioning of an Island Nation For the past few years, Jamaica has been compared — often lazily — to Dubai. The phrase “the Dubai of the Caribbean” resurfaces whenever a new hotel breaks ground, a luxury development is announced, or international investors begin paying attention again. It is meant as praise. Dubai symbolises speed, ambition, global...

Mortgage rates don’t usually make for exciting conversation. But in Jamaica, where land, housing, and ownership are deeply tied to dignity, security, and generational progress, today’s mortgage environment matters more than people realise. As we head into 2026, mortgage rates in Jamaica are sitting in a territory that is stable, but not cheap, improved, but not generous, and full of opportunity —...

There are moments when large systems shift quietly, almost politely, without headlines or panic. No collapse, no crash — just a subtle rebalancing. The decline in Caribbean travel to the United States in 2025 feels like one of those moments. People did not stop travelling. Money did not disappear. Instead, something more interesting happened: movement slowed, and intention sharpened. For Jamaica,...

There are moments when numbers stop being abstract and start feeling physical. Six percent. That is the reported drop in foreign visitors to the United States in 2025, according to multiple travel-industry assessments drawing on airline data, tourism forecasts, and international travel reporting. Industry bodies estimate that international arrivals fell from approximately 72.4 million in 2024 to...

When the United States returned Jamaica to Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution, it did not make a grand announcement. There was no ceremony, no dramatic language. Yet for those who read national signals closely — investors, lenders, insurers, and long-term property buyers — the change marked a meaningful shift. Level 2 is not a declaration of safety. It is a declaration of stability. And in real...

Jamaica is rebuilding. Not in theory. Not in headlines. Not in forecasts imported from somewhere else.But in real time — board by board, block by block, family by family. Hurricane Melissa did not just damage roofs and roads. It disrupted lives, displaced households, and exposed again a truth Jamaicans already know: housing is not just an asset class here — it is dignity, stability, and...

There’s a particular kind of truth that only a property listing can tell. Not the poetic truth of sea views and “minutes from everything,” but the practical truth: where people are building, where people are buying, and what the market thinks a dream is worth today. Across the listings reviewed, one thing stands out immediately: Jamaica’s residential market is not moving as one single story....

There is something quietly revealing about a body of property listings when you stop treating them as adverts and start reading them as evidence. Not evidence in the legal sense, but in the human sense: small declarations of confidence, ambition, patience, and sometimes optimism that stretches a little further than reality. When viewed together, residential listings form a kind of architectural weather...

“A house is not simply constructed. It is chosen at a moment when life decides to move forward.”— Dean Jones Jamaica is not easing into this year. It is stepping into it — with repaired roofs, recalibrated plans, and a sharper understanding of what housing actually represents. January arrives not as a reset, but as a continuation of momentum shaped by the months just passed, including a...

Jamaica is rebuilding — not just after Hurricane Melissa, but after decades of underestimating the true long-term value of its land, coastline, and communities. Roofs are being repaired, roads cleared, families regrouping. And quietly, beneath that necessary recovery, the Jamaican property market is doing what it has always done in moments of disruption: recalibrating upward. This is not a story...