Real Estate Glossary

Throughout the process of purchasing and selling a property, a lot of language related to real estate is utilized. Jamaica Homes is here to help you comprehend it. In order to assist you better comprehend terminology used throughout your home buying or selling process, we have produced a dictionary of the most often used real estate phrases along with their definitions.

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• ‘T’ plan with unequal ridge heights and dormers

1

• 150 East Street

• 1907 Earthquake Monument

2

• 24 Tucker Avenue

3

• 32 Market Street

4

• 4Ps

a

• A Contract

• A Deed

• A fi

• A hav

• A mek

• A nuh nutten

• A suh

• A suh wi dweet

• A suh wi stay

• A tek

• A trust account

• A wah dis

• A watta guwaan yasso?

• A weh yuh a seh

• A/C

• A receiver

• A warrant

• Abandoned Projects

• Abandonment

• Able to purchase

• Abnormal sale

• Abode

• Above building standard

• Above Rocks

• Abrogate

• Absentee owner

• Absolute Auction

• Absolute net

• Absorption rate

• Abstract of Judgment, Law

• AC systems

• Accelerated amortization

• Accelerated depreciation

• Acceptance in part

• Acceptance mirrors offer

• Acceptance on post

• Accessibility

• Accessible kitchen

• Accessory buildings

• Accommodation party

• Accompong

• Accompong

• Accrued but unpaid

• Accrued depreciation

• Accrued interest

• Accumulated depreciation

• Ackee

• ACM

• Acquisition

• Acquisition cost

• Acquisition loan

• Acre

• Acre Foot

• Acreage zoning

• Act of God

• Action for dollar damages

• Action to quiet title

• Active solar heating

• Actual age

• Actual notice

• Ad valorem tax

• Add-on interest

• Addendum

• Adelphi

• Adjustable-Rate Mortgage (ARM)

• Admiral Mountain Great House

• ADR

• Advance Fee Fraud

• Advance payment annuity

• Adverse Possession

• Advocacy Planner

• Aenon Town

• Aeolus Valley

• Aesthetic value

• Aesthetics

• Affiant

• Affidavit

• Affordable housing

• African

• Afro-Europeans

• After Repair Value (ARV)

• After-acquired property clause

• After-tax income

• After-tax proceeds from resale

• Agencies

• Agency by estoppel

• Agency by estoppel

• Agency created from the presumption of cohabitation

• Agency of Necessity

• Agency of necessity

• Agency Relationship

• Agent

• Agent caravan

• Agent License

• Aggregate expenditure

• Aggrieved party

• AGI

• Agile

• Agreed boundary

• Agreement for Sale

• Agreement of Sale

• Ah

• Ah gud

• Ah yuh dat

• AI

• AI Jamaica

• AI-powered tools

• AIDA

• Air quality

• Air rights

• Airbnb

• Airy Castle

• Albert Town

• ALEVS

• Alexandria

• Algorithms

• Allerdyce

• Alligator Pond

• Alphanumeric

• Alston

• Alternative Mortgage

• Aluminum-clad window

• Amenities

• Amortization period

• An assignment

• Anansi Stories

• Anchovy

• Anglican Church

• Annexation

• Annotto Bay

• Annual Mortgagor Statement

• Annual Percentage Rate (APR)

• Annual Rental Yield

• Anticipation, principle of

• Anticipatory breach

• Anticipatory breach

• Apartment

• Appraisal

• Appraisal Fee

• Appraisal Report

• Appraisal value estimate

• Appraised value

• Appraiser

• Appreciation

• Appreciation return

• Appurtenant

• APR

• Arab Jamaicans

• Arbitration

• Archaeological sites

• Architect

• Architectural styles

• Architecture

• Architrave

• Area analysis

• Area demographics

• Art Deco

• Artificial intelligence

• As Is

• As Is Condition

• As-built drawing

• As-Is

• As-Is Condition

• Asbestos

• Ash Wednesday

• Ask JH

• Asking Price

• Assets

• Association for Project Management (APM)

• Assumption Clause

• Assumptions

• Attorney

• Attorney General

• Attorney-at-law

• Aubyn Hill

• Auction

• Auctioneering

• Auctioneering of properties

• Auditor General

• August Town

• Authorised financial institution

• Authorization to List

• Avoiding duplicate efforts

• Avoiding duplicate efforts

• Awah

b

• Baby love

• Back a Yard

• Backlog

• Bad faith in real estate mortgages

• Bad title

• Badda

• Badmind

• Bailiff

• Balaclava

• Balloon Mortgage

• Balloon payment

• Bamboo

• Bamboo Homes

• Bamboo Luxe

• Bammy

• Bank statements

• Banker’s guarantee

• Bankruptcy

• Bankruptcy undischarged

• Bankruptcy undischarged

• Barbican

• Bare license

• Barking Lodge

• Baseline

• Baseline plan

• Basement

• Bashment

• Basic Property Listing

• Basilica

• Basis of legal theories

• Bath (Saint Thomas Parish)

• Bath Botanic Gardens

• Bauxite mining

• Beach access

• Beach Watch

• Beachfront

• Beachfront Home

• Beams and columns

• Belgrade Mews

• Bellefield Great House

• Bellevue Great House

• Beneficiaries

• Beneficiaries

• Bent

• Bequeath assets

• Berry Hill

• BestKnownHost or Best Known Host

• Bethel Town

• Beverly Hills

• Big up

• Big up yourself

• Big Woods

• Bilateral contract

• Biodiversity

• Biological Resources

• Biophysical processes and forces

• Black River

• Black River Court House

• Blenheim

• Bless up

• Blockchain

• Blockchain technology

• Bloomfield Great House

• Blouse and skirt

• Blue and John Crow Mountains

• Blue Hole

• Blue Hole Mineral Spring

• Blue Mountain Modern

• Blue Mountains

• Blue Mountains

• Bluefields

• Blueprint

• Board house

• Bob Marley

• Bobo Dread

• Bodah

• Bog

• Bog

• Bog Walk

• Bog Walk Gorge

• Bonnet roof

• Borrower

• Boscobel

• Botanical

• Breach of contract

• Breach of Fiduciary Relationship and Duty of Care

• Bredda

• Bredren

• Brimmer Hall Great House

• British Jamaicans

• Brochure design

• Broker

• Broker-salesman agreement

• Brokerage

• Brokerages

• Brokers

• Bromley Great House

• Brown’s Town

• Brown’s Town

• Bruce Golding

• Bruck

• Brutalist architecture

• Bubble diagram

• Budget clarity

• Budgeting

• Buff Bay

• Buff Bay River

• Build to Rent

• Building approval

• Building Authority

• Building Code

• Building code compliance

• Building Line Or Setback

• Building permit

• Building process

• Building Restrictions

• Building Surveyor

• Built environment professionals

• Bull Bay

• Bull Savanna

• Bundle of Rights

• Bundle Pricing

• Bungalow

• Burchell Memorial Church

• Burial order

• Burn down chart

• Business Case

• Business loans

• Business plan

• Business-to-Business (B2B)

• Business-to-Business (B2B) Marketing

• Business-to-Consumer (B2C)

• Butterfly roof

• Buxton

• Buyer

• Buyer agent

• Buyer’s market

• Buyer’s Remorse

• Buying and holding

• Bwoy

• Bwoy Pickney

c

• CAD

• Cadastral survey

• CAGR

• Cambridge

• Cancellation Clause

• Cantilever

• Canva

• Capacity planning

• Cape Cod style

• Capital

• Capital expenditure

• Capital gains

• Capital Improvement

• Capitalization

• Caribbean

• Caribbean Revival

• Carmel

• Carron Hall

• Cascade

• Cash buyer

• Cash flow

• Cash Return

• Cash-out refinance

• Cashier’s Check

• Cassava

• Cast Iron Fountain

• Castle

• Castleton Botanical Gardens

• Cathedral

• Catholic Church

• Cattawood Springs

• Causation

• Cave Valley

• Caveat

• Caveat emptor

• Cease and Sekkle

• Cease and Sekkle

• Cedar Valley

• Census

• Central location

• Certainty in contract law

• Certificate of Deposit (CD)

• Certificate of Sale

• Certificate of title

• Chain of title

• Chain of title

• Change control

• Change form

• Change frequency

• Change Management

• Change of use

• Change request

• Chapel

• Chapelton

• Chargie

• Charles Town

• Chartered Builder

• ChatGPT

• Chattel Houses

• Chattel mortgage

• Chatty-chatty

• Cherry Garden Great House

• Cherry Gardens

• Chief Justice of Jamaica

• Chief Technical Director (CTD)

• Chief Transformation Officer (CTO)

• Chinese Jamaicans

• Cho

• Cho

• Christ Church

• Christian campground

• Christiana

• Christianity

• Christmas in Jamaica

• Christmas Rebellion

• Christopher Columbus

• Church annex

• Church manse

• Church of St. Anne

• Church of the Good Shepherd

• Church school

• Churchyard

• Cinchona Botanical Gardens

• Cincinnati Mushroom House

• Cinnamon Hill Great House

• CIOB

• Circuit Court

• City

• City block

• Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)

• Claremont

• Clarendon

• Clarendon Heritage Sites

• Clarendon Park

• Clarification of relationship

• Clark’s Town

• Clark’s Town

• Clarksonville

• Classified Property Tax

• Claude Stuart Park

• Clear title

• Client

• Climate change

• Clipped gable roof

• Closing (Real Estate Transaction)

• Closing costs

• Closing Statement

• Cluster Development

• Clydesdale National Forest Park

• CMA

• Co-broking

• Co-broking and dual agency

• Co-housing

• Co-insurance

• Co-listing

• Co-maker

• Co-signer

• Coat of Arms

• Cockpit Country

• Code of Ethics

• Codicil

• Cohousing

• Coke Methodist Church

• Coke Methodist Church

• Coleyville

• Collateral

• Collateral in real estate

• Collateral risks

• Collection

• Collective agreements

• Collector of Taxes

• Colonial Architecture

• Colonial Revival

• Colonies

• Colour washing

• Commercial agreements

• Commercial agreements

• Commercial bank

• Commercial Property Manager

• Commercial real estate

• Commercial Real Estate Broker

• Commingling

• Commission

• Commission of Strata Corporation

• Commission on a listing agreement

• Commissioner of Lands holding

• Commitment

• Commitment

• Commitment fee

• Common Areas

• Common law

• Common property disposal

• Commonhold

• Commonhold tenure

• Communal Spaces

• Communications Strategy

• Community

• Community engagement

• Community ownership

• Community planning

• Community property

• Community standards

• Community Trust

• Companies Office Of Jamaica

• Company Limited by Guarantee

• Comparative Market Analysis (CMA)

• Compensation

• Competitive pricing

• Compliance Officer

• Compound interest

• Concept of agency

• Concept of land

• Concept of Perpetual

• Concrete foundation

• Concrete panel

• Condemnation

• Conditional Commitment

• Conditional Contrac

• Conditional tenure

• Conditions for the sale

• Condominium

• Condominium conversion

• Condominiums

• Condos

• Configuration management

• Conflicts of interest

• consensus ad idem

• Consent judgment

• Conservator

• Consideration

• Consideration in contract law

• Consideration in real estate

• Constant Spring

• Constitution of Jamaica

• Construction

• Construction budget

• Construction documents

• Construction load categories

• Construction Loan

• Constructive notice

• Contact

• Container Module House

• Contemporary architecture

• Contemporary style

• Contiguous lots

• Contingencies

• Contingency listing

• Contingency planning

• Contingent fee

• Continue in perpetuity

• Continuous professional development

• Contour lines

• Contours

• Contract

• Contract for Deed

• Contract in Jamaican contract law

• Contract of sale

• Contract to Purchase

• Contractor’s Approach

• Contractor’s Approach Replacement - Summation Method

• Contractor’s Method of Valuation

• Contracts implied-in-fact

• Contracts implied-in-law

• Contracts with minors

• Contractual license

• Conveyance

• Conveyancing

• Conveyancing Act

• Coo yah

• Cooperating broker

• Copyright

• Core-Periphery

• Cornwall County

• Corporate Customer Information Form

• Cost Analysis

• Cost Approach or Contractor’s Approach

• Cost baseline

• Cost control

• Cost Performance Index (CPI)

• Cost-Based Pricing

• Cottage

• Counter offer

• County Courts

• Court of Appeal

• Court of equity

• Covenant

• Covenant to repair

• Covenants against encumbrances

• Covenants of a landlord

• Covenants of a tenant

• CPD

• Craftsman-style home

• Craighton House

• Credit history

• Credit report

• Credit Score

• Creditors

• Creditworthy

• Criminal or civil proceedings

• Criminal or civil proceedings

• Critical path

• CRM

• Croft’s Hill

• Cross hipped roof

• Cross Keys

• Crown

• Crown Grant

• CRTD

• Cultural patterns (life style)

• Cultural sensitivity

• Cum yah

• Currencies

• Currency and exchange

• Custodes

• Customary

• Customary tenure

• Customer Relationship Management

• Customer satisfaction

• Custos Rotulorum

• Cyah

• Cybercrime

d

• Da one deh

• Daley

• Damage & Destruction

• Damper

• Dangerous Structures

• Dark water

• Darliston

• Dash weh

• Dashboard

• Dat

• Dat

• Data Centre

• Days on the Market

• Dead lef

• Dead pledge

• Dean Jones

• Death certificate

• Death duties

• Debt

• Debt Collection Agency

• Debt Coverage Ratio (DCR)

• Debt service

• Debt-to-income ratio

• Deceased’s estate

• Deck, patio, or porch

• Deed

• Deed of Trust

• Deed Title

• Deed-in-Lieu

• Deep-seal floor drain

• Default in real estate

• Defaulting on a mortgage loan

• Defect log

• Deferred maintenance

• Deficit

• Deh

• Deh bout

• Deh pon

• Deh pon

• Dehyah

• Delinquency

• Deliverables

• Dem

• DeMontevin Lodge

• Den

• Denham Town

• Density

• Density test

• Dependencies

• Deportee

• Deposit

• Deposited plan

• Design

• Design/Build

• Designated Non-Financial Institutions (DNFIs)

• Detailed planning

• Developer

• Development

• Development Orders

• Development scheme

• Devon House

• Devon House

• Di

• Di bwoy big, eeh!

• Di ting lock

• Dias

• Diaspora

• Digital real estate

• Digital transformation

• Dimension lines

• Dimension lines

• Direct Buyer

• Direct Current (DC)

• Director of Surveys

• Dis

• Dis-tempering

• Disabled access

• Dischargeable covenants

• Disclaimer

• Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Method

• Discovery Bay

• Discretionary Trust

• Dispersed or scattered settlements

• Dispossess

• Dispute Resolution

• District

• DIYer

• Doctrine of Tenure and Estate

• Domicile

• Dominant tenement

• Don Dada

• Dons

• Dormer roof

• Down payment

• Downspouts

• Downtown Kingston

• Draftsman

• Drainage plan

• Drax Hall

• Dream Home

• Dred

• Dredging

• Drone Compliance Officer

• Drone Pilot/Operator

• Drone Surveyor

• Drone Technician

• Drone Technician

• Dropped ceiling

• Drum beat reporting

• Dual agency

• Dual Agency Problem

• Dual system of recording ownership

• Duckenfield

• Due-On-Sale Clause

• Duncans

• Duplex

• Duplicate Title

• Duppy

• Dutch Colonial Style

• Dutch gabled roof

• Dutty

• Duty to insure

• Duty to pay rates

• Dying intestate

• Dynamic Pricing

• Dyslexic thinking

e

• Early occupancy

• Earned Value (EV)

• Earned Value Management (EVM)

• Earnest money

• Earthbag home

• Earthquake insurance

• Earthquakes

• Easement

• Easement appurtenant

• Easement by necessity

• Easement by prescription

• Easement in gross

• Easement of light or air

• Easements

• Easington

• East Indian

• East Queen Street Baptist Church

• East Queen Street Baptist Church

• Easy access

• Ebon Aerie

• Eco-friendly homes

• Economic and Social Survey of Jamaica

• Economic Free Zone

• Economic growth

• Economic Man

• Economic Stability

• Edinburgh Castle

• Eediat

• EES

• Effective age

• Effective Gross Income (EGI)

• Effective Rental Income

• EIA

• EIA Baseline Study

• EIS

• El Niño

• eLandJamaica

• Electrical Plan

• Element of exchange

• Elevation Plan

• Emancipation Day

• Emancipation park

• Eminent domain

• Employer-assisted Housing

• Employment status

• Empress

• Empty bag cyaah tan up

• Empty nesters

• Enclosure Number

• Encroachment

• Encumbered Property

• Encumbrance

• End loan

• End-of-life planning

• Endangered species

• Ending instructions in real estate

• Endorser

• English colonists

• English Court System

• Enhanced property discription

• Enuh

• Environmental approval

• Environmental Assessment

• Environmental conservation

• Environmental Covenants

• Environmental degradation

• Environmental protection

• Environmentally friendly home

• Epistemic

• Equitable estoppel

• Equitable Interests

• Equitable remedies

• Equity

• Equity (Broader Meaning)

• Equity of ownership

• Equity of redemption

• Escalation

• Escalation Plan

• Escovitch Fish

• Escrow

• Escrow Officer

• Estate

• Estate Agent

• Estate Agents

• Estate development

• Estates in real estate

• Estimated Gross Costs of Buying

• Estimated Increase in Equity

• Estimated Net Costs of Buying

• Estimated Tax Savings

• Estimated Total Costs

• Ethical standards

• European

• Evangelical Center

• Every mikkle mek a mukkle

• Everything is Everything

• Eviction

• Eviction Notice

• Ewarton

• Examination of Title

• Excess rent

• Exchange Contracts

• Excluding the postal rule

• Exclusion clauses

• Exclusive agency listing

• Exclusive agreements

• Exclusive listing

• Exclusive right to sell

• Exclusivity

• Executed contract

• Executive sponsor

• Executor

• Executory contract

• Exemption clause

• Expatriate

• Expats

• Explicit Agency

• Express appointment

• Express contract

• Expressed covenants of applicability

• Extension option

• Eye Home

• Eyebrow dormer

f

• Faada

• Facade

• Facilities management

• Facilities Manager

• Failure to perform

• Fair market price

• Fairy Hill

• Faith-based housing

• Fallah

• Falmouth Court House

• Falmouth Wharves

• Fam

• Family-oriented property

• Farin

• Farmhouse

• Farmhouse or acreage

• Fauna

• Fava

• Feasibility study

• Featured Property Listing

• Fee simple

• Fee Simple Absolute

• Fee simple estate

• Fee tail

• Feel no way

• Fertilization

• Fi

• Fi real, im big-big!

• Fiduciary duty

• Fiduciary relationship

• Fiduciary relatiopnship

• Financial advisor

• Financial freedom

• Financial readiness

• Financial Sector

• Financial status

• Finder’s fee

• Fire Risk Assessment

• Firefly

• Firefly House

• Firm commitment

• First mortgage

• Fiscal profit

• Fish tea

• Fixed installment

• Fixed interest rate

• Fixed time

• Fixed-rate mortgage

• Fixed-Term Lease

• Fixer-Upper

• Fixtures and fittings

• Fiyah bun

• Flagstaff

• Flash floods

• Flat Bridge

• Flat roof

• Flipping

• Flood insurance

• Flood plain

• Flood zone

• Flooding

• Floor Area Ratio (FAR)

• Floor plan symbols

• Flora

• Folly Point Lighthouse

• Fooding

• Foot battam

• Foot traffic

• For rent

• For Sale By Owner

• Forbearance

• Forcible ejection

• Forecasting

• Foreclosure

• Foreign Investment

• Foreign investors

• Foreigners

• Forest Hills Gardens

• Formal offer

• Fort Augusta

• Fort Charles

• Fort Charles

• Fort Charlotte

• Fort Dundas

• Fort George

• Fort Haldane

• Fort Lindsay

• Fort Montego

• Fort Nugent

• Fort Oracabessa

• Fort Small

• Fort William

• Foundation

• Foundation plan

• Four Paths

• Framing

• Frankfield

• Franklin Town

• Franklyn Town

• Frass

• Fraudulent concealment

• Free Hill

• Free house

• Freehold

• Freeholder

• Freelancer

• Fren

• Fren dem

• Friendly Societies Act

• From wah day

• Frome

• Front elevation

• FSBO

• Fully grilled property

• Fully-serviced lease

• Furnish

• Furnished property

• Future Architecture

g

• Gabled roof

• Galina Lighthouse

• Gambrel roof

• Gantt chart

• Garden Parish

• Gas Safety Checks

• Gayle

• GCT

• Generative AI

• Genuineness of assent

• Geographic Information System

• Geology

• Geomorphology

• Georgian style

• Germans in Jamaica

• Ghetto

• Ghetto bwoy

• Gibraltar

• Gifting Property

• Gimme

• Gimme-Me-Bit

• Glamping

• Glebe

• Glengoffe

• GoAML platform

• God willing

• Golden Grove

• Golmont View House

• Good faith in real estate mortgages

• Good Hope Great House

• Good possessory title

• Good Root of Title

• Good-Faith Estimate

• Goodas

• Goods

• Goodwill Village

• Google Mortgage

• Gordon “Butch” Stewart

• Gordon House

• Gordon Town

• Gothic Jamaican Kitchen Design

• Gothic Kitchen

• Gothic Revival Architecture

• Government departments

• Government of Jamaica

• Governor-General

• Governor-General of Jamaica

• Grace period

• Grant Deed

• Grant of Administration

• Grant of Probate

• Grant Reforms

• Granville

• Graphic design

• Great Houses

• Greater Antilles

• Greater Kingston Metropolitan Area

• Greater Portmore

• Greek Revival style

• Green Park Great House

• Greenwood Great House

• Greenwood Great House

• Greywater

• Gross Development Value (GDV)

• Gross Income

• Gross lease

• Ground Rent

• Grove Hill House

• Grove Hill House

• Guarantee mortgage

• Guided tour

• Gully

• Gutter

• Gwaan

• Gwaan

• Gyal

• Gyal

h

• Habitability

• Haddersfield

• Haffi

• Hagley Gap

• Hail up

• HAJ

• Half Way Tree

• Halse Hall Great House

• Hamlet

• Hampton School

• Hanover

• Hanover Heritage Sites

• Hanover Parish Church

• Harbour View

• Hard dough bread

• Harmony Hall House

• Hayes

• Hayfield House

• Head gone

• Health and Safety

• Hear seh

• Hectare

• Hellshire Hills

• Heritage

• Heterogeneity

• Hibbert House

• High Court

• High density

• High Pressure Sales Tactics

• High-rise building

• Highest and best use (HABU)

• Highgate House

• Hip roof

• Historic Cast Iron Bridge (Spanish Town)

• Historic Half Way Tree Court House

• Historic Preservation

• Historic Schools

• Historic structure

• HMO

• HOA

• Hogan house

• Hollywell National Park

• Holy site

• Holy Trinity Anglican Church

• Holy Trinity Cathedral

• Holy Trinity Cathedral

• Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC)

• Home Equity Loan

• Home Improvement Grants

• Home inspection

• Home inspection checklist

• Home Inspector

• Home warranty

• Homeowners Association (HOA)

• Homogeneity

• Hope Botanical Gardens

• Hope River

• Hopeton

• Hopewell

• Hopewell

• Host in real estate

• Hosting

• Hosting in real estate

• House

• House agent

• House at Regardless

• House Hacking

• House of Representatives

• Houseboat

• How yuh duh?

• Hub

• Hugh Shearer’s Birthplace

• Humus

• Hurricane Melissa

• Hurricanes

• Hush yuh mouth

• Hybrid construction

• Hybrid Mortgage

i

• I and I

• Ian Fleming’s GoldenEye

• Identification

• Igbo

• Im a guh fi it

• iMap

• IMF

• Immigrant

• Imperfect will alternative

• Implied authority

• Implied contract

• Implied Contracts

• Implied terms

• Impossibility of performance

• Imputed notice

• Income

• Income proof

• Income Tax

• Indefeasibility

• Indefeasibility of Registered Titles

• Independence Park

• Indestructible security

• Individual Ownership

• Indo-Jamaicans

• Industrial property

• Industry experts

• Industry governance

• Infamous conduct

• Information Manager

• Infrastructure in real estate

• Infringement

• Inheritance

• Initial interest rate

• Injunctions in real estate

• Inna

• Inna di morrows

• Innocent misrepresentation

• Inspection chamber

• Inspection report

• Installment contract

• Instructions for Sale

• Insulated Concrete Forms (ICFs)

• Insulation

• Insurable title

• Integrated Development Plan (IDP)

• Integrated Marketing Communications

• Integrated Project Management

• Integrated Tourism-Real Estate Ventures

• Intellectual property (IP)

• Intellectual Property in Real Estate

• Intentional Community

• Intentional misrepresentation

• Inter vivos transfer

• Interest existing in a property

• Interest rate

• Interest rate caps

• Interest-only loan

• Interest-Only Mortgage

• Interior

• International MLS

• International Property Measurement Standard

• Intersecting rood gable to gable

• Intestate

• Intrinsic value

• Investment

• Investment potential

• Investment Property

• Investment property returns

• Investment return

• Investment-related savings

• Invitation to treat

• IPR

• Irie

• Irie

• Irish Jamaicans

• Irish Moss

• Irish Town

• Irrevocable contract

• Irrevocable Trust

• Island Chic Villas

• Island life

• Ital

• Italianate architecture

• Izba

j

• JA

• Jack’s Hill

• Jack’s Hill

• JAD Coordinates

• Jah

• Jah bless

• Jah Jah

• Jah know

• Jah know

• Jam Rock

• Jamaica

• Jamaica apartments

• Jamaica Association for the Resettlement of Returning Residents (JARRR)

• Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI)

• Jamaica Beehive

• Jamaica Classified

• Jamaica College

• Jamaica condos

• Jamaica diaspora

• Jamaica Dream

• Jamaica Dream Homes

• Jamaica Flats

• Jamaica Home Run (noun)

• Jamaica Homes

• Jamaica Homes account

• Jamaica Homes Blog

• Jamaica Homes Media

• Jamaica Homes Volunteers

• Jamaica House

• Jamaica houses

• Jamaica houses for sale

• Jamaica Luxury Real Estate

• Jamaica Multiple Listing Service (MLS)

• Jamaica Realty

• Jamaica Returnee Association (JRA)

• Jamaica Returning Residents Groups

• Jamaica Returning Residents Guide

• Jamaica Strong

• Jamaica-me-crasy

• Jamaica–Cuba Medical Cooperation Programme

• Jamaica’s Vision 2030

• Jamaican

• Jamaican anti-discrimination laws and fair lending practices

• Jamaican Citizen

• Jamaican Creole

• Jamaican Creole

• Jamaican Culture

• Jamaican Embassy

• Jamaican Folklore

• Jamaican Georgian architecture

• Jamaican Government

• Jamaican heritage sites

• Jamaican Law

• Jamaican National

• Jamaican real estate

• Jamaican Realtor

• Jamaican Titles

• Jamaicans

• Jamaicas

• Jammin

• JAMPRO

• JAREBA

• JCF

• Jelly

• Jelly

• Jericho Baptist Church

• Jerk

• Jews in Jamaica

• JH

• JIA

• JIE

• JIQS

• JNHT

• Joint Liability

• Joint Tenancy

• Joint tenancy with a fee simple absolute

• Joists

• Jones Town

• Jonkonnu

• Joseph Matalon

• JP

• JP

• JPS

• JSIF

• Judicature (Appellate Jurisdiction) Act

• Judiciary of Jamaica

• Jus

• Just cool boss

• Just cool, boss

• Justice of the Peace

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• Kaa

• Kaka rass

• Ketch

• Ketch

• Kettering

• Kettering Baptist Church

• Kibba yuh mouth

• Kick-off meetin

• Kickoff meeting

• Kickoff meeting

• Kin ova

• Kingston

• Kingston 19

• Kingston 6

• Kingston 6

• Kingston 8

• Kingston Fusion

• Kingston Parish Church

• Kingston Parish Church

• Kit homes

• Knockpatrick

• Konshens

• Kool

• Kotch

• Ku paan yuh tu

• KYC

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• Land

• Land disputes

• Land is inelastic

• Land of Wood & Water

• Land ownership

• Land Registration Act

• Land registration system

• Land Survey

• Land Surveyors Association of Jamaica (LSAJ)

• Land title

• Land use

• Land Valuation Number

• Landfill

• Landlocked

• Landlocked land or property

• Landlord

• Landmark

• Landmark in real estate

• Landscape Architect

• Landscape Contractor

• Landscape plan

• Landscaped properties

• Landscaping

• Lapse of time

• Large estates

• Laser measure

• Last survivor

• Late Payment

• Latent Defect

• Lateral living

• Law of agency

• Law Reform (Frustrated Contracts) Act 1943

• Laws of Jamaica

• Lawyer

• LDUC

• Lead in Jamaican real estate

• Lead time

• Leading Anti-discrimination laws

• Lease

• Lease Administrator

• Lease agreement

• Lease Buyout

• Lease Option

• Lease Property

• Lease Violations

• Leased Property

• Leasehold

• Leasehold interest value

• Leases

• Leasing Consultant

• Leasing Manager

• Legacy

• Legal agreements

• Legal Blemish

• Legal concepts

• Legal consulting in real estate

• Legal description

• Legal fees

• Legal framework

• Legal interests

• Legal system

• Legality

• Legally binding

• Lender

• Leopold matrix

• Less-than-freehold estate

• Lessons learned

• Let agreed

• Letter of Commitment

• Letter of Intent

• Level access

• Level of Control on a Listing Agreement

• Liability in Jamaican real estate

• Liability Insurance

• Liberty Hall

• Liberty Hill Great House

• Licence

• License for Alteration

• Licensed dealers

• Licensed real estate practitioners

• Lickkle

• Lien

• Liens

• Life cap

• Life estate

• Life tenant

• Life-Cycle Cost Analysis

• Lift access

• Lighthouse

• Lightweight Steel Frame construction

• Liguanea

• Limited Agent

• Limited Partnership

• Limited service listing

• Limited service listing tenure

• Linear or ribbon settlements

• Linstead

• Liquid Assets

• Liquid effluent discharge

• Liquidated Damages

• Liquidated damages

• Listing agen

• Listing agreement

• Listing Information

• Listing Inventories

• Littleton

• Live-In Partnership

• Live-Work Space

• Living Island Kitchen

• Lloyds

• Loan agreement

• Loan agreement rate

• Loan Application

• Loan Application Fee

• Loan approval

• Loan Commitment

• Loan Constant

• Loan Estimate (LE)

• Loan Officer

• Loan Origination Fee

• Loan Processing Fee

• Loan qualification

• Loan Servicer

• Loan Term

• Loan-To-Value Ratio (LTV)

• Local attractions

• Local authorities

• Local customs

• Local laws

• Local Market

• Local Planning Authority

• Local regulations

• Locational Value of Property

• Lock-In

• Lodge

• Loft

• Log cabin

• Long Mountain

• Long Mountain Country Club

• Long Wood

• Longwood

• Lot

• Lot number

• Lovers’ Leap Lighthouse

• Low density

• Low-ball offe

• Low-documentation loan

• Low-down-payment loan

• Lowe mi

• Lumina Basilica

• Luv

• Luxury Accommodations

• Luxury real estate

• Luxury villas

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• M-shaped roof

• Mad mi

• Magistrate Courts

• Magistrates’ Courts

• Maidstone

• Maintaining compliance

• Mammee Bay

• Manager

• Manchester

• Mandeville

• Mandeville Court House

• Manhole

• Manning’s School

• Mansard Roof

• Mansion

• Manufactured housing

• Map legend

• Maps

• Marcus Garvey

• Marijuana

• Marine life

• Market knowledge

• Market Value

• Market value conceptual framework

• Market-based pricing

• Marketing

• Maroon

• Maroon War

• Marshall’s Pen Great House

• Marverley

• Mary, Gate of Heaven Catholic Church

• Mason River Botanical Station

• Mason River Field Station

• Masonry wall system

• Mass appraisal techniques

• Mastodon’s decentralized approach

• Material breach

• Matrix

• Matrix organization

• Mavis Bank

• Mawnin

• Maximum financing

• May Pen

• May Pen Clock Tower

• Meadowbrook

• Meadsfield

• Measured survey

• Mechanical systems

• Mediation

• Medieval English Law

• Mediterranean Revival architecture

• Mediterranean Revival architecture

• Mek wi dweet

• Memorandum of Sale

• Memorandum of Understanding

• Mental incapacity

• Merged credit report

• MGD

• Mi

• Mi

• Mi a gwaan easy

• Mi deh yah, tank yuh

• Mi nah guh nuh weh

• Mi nuh have nun

• Mi seh

• Mi tell you say

• Mi yard

• Mi yout

• Michael Lee-Chin

• Mico College Buildings

• Microflora

• Middle Quarters

• Middlesex County

• Milestone

• Milk River Spa

• Minard and New Hope Estates

• Mining & quarrying

• Minister

• Minister in Planning

• Minister of Housing

• Minister of Planning

• Ministry property

• Mint condition

• Missionary housing

• Mixed-income housing

• Mixed-Use Building

• Mixed-use development

• Mixed-use property

• MLS

• MLS Committee

• MLSS

• MMS

• Mobile Home

• Modern developments

• Modern homes

• Modern Living

• Modular Home

• Molynes Gardens

• Mona

• Mona Great House

• Monarch

• Monastic housing

• Money Haffi Mek

• Money laundering

• Mongoose

• Monitoring in real estate

• Monolithic Dome Construction

• Monte Carlo Simulation

• Montego Bay

• Moore Town

• Moors

• Morant Bay

• Morant Bay Court House

• Morant Bay Court House

• Morant Bay Fort

• Morant Bay Fort

• Morant Bay Rebellion

• Morant Point Lighthouse

• Mornin

• Mortgage Acceleration Clause

• Mortgage account

• Mortgage Act

• Mortgage agreement

• Mortgage application

• Mortgage banker

• Mortgage broker

• Mortgage broker offers

• Mortgage interest

• Mortgage life insurance

• Mortgage Loan Originator

• Mortgage loans

• Mortgage pre-approval

• Mortgage process

• Mortgage Processor

• Mortgage term

• Mortgage terms

• Mortgage-interest deduction

• Mortgagee

• Mortgages

• Mortgagor

• Motivated buyer

• Motivated seller

• MOU

• Mount Nebo Baptist Church

• Mount Plenty Great House

• Mount Rosser

• Mount View Estate

• Mountain River Cave

• Mountain view

• Move-in condition

• Moving expenses

• Multi Listing Form

• Multi-family house

• Multi-Tenant Rentals

• Multi-unit developments

• Multidwelling property

• Multifamily mortgage

• Multifamily properties

• Multiple Listing Service

• Multiple offers

• Municipal Corporations

• Munro College

• Munro College

• Mussa

• Mussi

• Mutual funds

n

• Nah

• Nah jesta

• Nah tell yuh

• Name Rider

• Nanny of the Maroons

• Nanny Town

• NAR

• NAR

• National Association of REALTORS®

• National Heroes Park

• National Insurance Scheme

• National Planning

• National Poverty Reduction Programme

• National Water Commission (NWC)

• National Works Agency (NWA)

• Natty

• Natural disasters

• Natural hazards

• Natural resources

• Negative Covenant

• Negligent misrepresentation

• Negotiation Power

• Negril

• Negril Lighthouse

• Negril Point Lighthouse

• Neighborhood standards

• Neighborhoods

• Neighbourhood Watch

• Neighbouring properties

• Nek bak

• NEPA

• Net cash flow

• Net Operating Income (NOI)

• Net rentable area

• Net worth

• Netooze

• New Broughton United

• New construction

• New Holland

• New Kingston’s commercial and residential developments

• New Market

• New Property

• New Roads

• Newcastle

• NHT

• NHT benefit

• NIC

• Nigerians

• Nine Mile

• Nine Night

• NIS

• NLA

• No sah

• Nobady neva see’m

• Node

• Nomad

• Non est factum

• Non-Commercial

• Non-exclusive listing

• Non-liquid asset

• Non-material breach

• Non-right angle corners, or skews

• Norbrook

• Norbrook

• Norbrook

• Norman Gardens

• Norman Manley

• Northern Caribbean University

• Nose-ole

• Notary Public

• Notice of Default

• Novation

• NRCA

• NRCA Act

• NSHP

• Nucleated settlements

• Nuff

• Nuff Respect

• Nuh

• Nuh fi

• Null and void

• Nuttin

• Nyabingi

• Nyam

• Nyam

o

• Oakton House

• Obeah

• Occupancy cost

• Ocean dumping

• Ocho Rios

• Ocho Rios Beachfront Development

• Ocho Rios Fort

• Odd-even pricing

• ODPEM

• Offer and acceptance

• Offer to Purchase

• Office of the Prime Minister (OPM)

• Office of the Supervisor of Insolvency

• Old Harbour

• Old Pera

• One one cocoa full basket

• Online digital real estate marketplace

• Online real estate listings

• Open House

• Open Listing

• Open lot

• Open space

• Operating expenses

• Operationalisation of the law

• Options in a lease

• Oral agreement

• Orange Park

• Order of winding up

• Organic-style architecture

• Original Title

• Our Lady of Perpetual Help

• Out of Many, One People

• Outline Planning

• Outta

• Ova deh suh

• Ova dweet

• Overimprovement

• Overstand

• Owner financing

• Ownership in severalty

• Oxford University

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• Painting

• Papine-Mona Aqueduct

• Parapet gable roof

• Parapet gable roof

• Pardner Partnering

• Parent title

• Pari passu

• Parish

• Parish Council

• Parish Councils (Local Planning Authorities or Municipal Corporations)

• Parish Court

• Parkay flooring

• Parliament

• Parliament

• Parol evidence rule

• Partial sea view

• Party wall

• Party Walls

• Passa Passa

• Passive House

• Pastoral residence

• Path

• Patrick City

• Patrick Gardens

• Patty

• Paul Bogle

• Payment cap

• Payment schedule

• Payment schedules

• Paynes Town

• Paynes Town

• Pedro Bank

• Pen dem

• Pending property

• Penetration Pricing

• Penthouse

• People

• Per-Diem Interest

• Periodic Tenancy

• Permissive waste

• Permit

• Personal covenant

• Personal loans

• Personal Property

• PERT Chart

• Petrol Filling Station Applications

• Phillippo Baptist Church

• Physical planning

• Pickney

• Pilgrimage Accommodation

• PIOJ

• Pisgah

• Plan set

• Planned Communities

• Planned-Unit Development (PUD)

• Planning

• Planning Developments

• Planning Permission

• Planning Register

• Plantain Garden River

• Plantation owners

• Plastering

• Platform as a Service (PaaS)

• Pleez

• Plumb Point Lighthouse

• PMO

• PMO Analyst

• PMP

• POCA

• Pointing

• Police

• Policy

• Polished concrete

• Politics encompasses

• Pon di ting

• Poppy show

• Population

• Population density

• Port Antonio

• Port Antonio Court House

• Port Esquivel

• Port Maria

• Port Maria Civic Centre

• Port Maria Court House

• Port Morant

• Port Royal

• Port Royal Forts

• Portfolio Lender

• Portfolio management

• Portland

• Portland Parish Church

• Portland Point Lighthouse

• Portmore

• Positive Covenant

• Postal rule

• Potential Rental Income

• Power of Attorney

• Power of Sale

• Power of Sale (strata corporation)

• PPA

• Pre-application process

• Pre-Approval Letter

• Pre-Licensing Course

• Pre-Licensing Courses

• Pre-project implementation

• Pre-Qualification

• Pre-Qualification Letter

• Pre-Sold Home

• Prefab Home

• Prefab housing

• Prefab Modular Home

• Prefabulous housing

• Preference for direct buyer

• Prepayment contracts

• Prequalification

• Presbyter

• Presbyterian Church

• Prestige Pricing

• Prestige property

• Price gouging

• Price Range

• Prima facie rule

• Prime location

• Principal contractor

• Principal in real estate transactions

• Principle of Conformity

• Principle of indefeasibility

• Principle of Progression

• Principle of Regression

• Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI)

• Private treaty

• Private treaty property

• Privately operated

• Privy Council

• Probate

• Probate application

• Probate court

• Probate Sale

• Probate Taxes

• Proceeds of Condemnation

• Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA)

• Procurement management

• Procurement of Supplies/Services

• Procuring cause

• Product backlog

• Production Home

• Professional Association

• Professional impropriety

• Profit à prendre

• Profit in gross

• Profit Prendre

• Profits

• Programm Management

• Programme

• Programme Execution Plan

• Programming

• Progress tracking

• Prohibitory Injunction

• Project

• Project brief

• Project Budget

• Project budgets

• Project charter

• Project Description

• Project highlight report

• Project Journal

• Project Management

• Project Manager’s Dilemma

• Project Master Plan

• Project Plan

• Project review

• Project schedule

• Project scope

• Project specification

• Project Sponsor

• Projects

• Promotional pricing

• Proof of Address

• Proof of Employment

• Proof of financing

• Proof of funds

• Proof of Income

• Property

• Property Act

• Property appraisal

• Property being underwater

• Property closing costs

• Property crime

• Property Disputes

• Property features

• Property identification

• Property income potential

• Property inspection

• Property inspections

• Property law

• Property law

• Property lawyer

• Property Listing

• Property Listing

• Property listings

• Property management

• Property Management Company

• Property management services

• Property Manager

• Property market

• Property Owner

• Property ownership

• Property ownership costs

• Property purchase agreement

• Property rental management

• Property rental yield

• Property Report

• Property Rights

• Property sales forecast

• Property Survey

• Property tax

• Property tax assessment

• Property Tax Certificate

• Property Tax Deduction

• Property Tax Number

• Property tax query

• Property tax query

• Property Tax Query

• Property title search

• Property Titles

• Property transactions

• Property valuation

• Property valuation method

• Property Values

• Proposal to Lease

• Proprietors of Strata Plan

• PropTech

• Prospect Great House

• Protected areas

• Protestantism

• Psychological pricing

• Punch List

• Purchase price

• Purchase requisition form

• Purchaser

• Pyramid hip roof

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• Qualified Covenant

• Qualifying Ratios

• Quality assurance

• Quality control

• Quantity surveyor

• Quantum

• Quasi-judicial

• Quebec Great House

• Queen Anne Style

• Queen Elizabeth’s influence on Jamaican real estate

• Quiet enjoyment of rental property

• Quifax

• Quit-Claim Deed

• Quitclaim deed

• Quitclaim Deed

• Qwenga

r

• RACI

• Rae Town

• Raggamuffin

• RAJ

• Ramble Great House

• Rammed Earth

• Ramped access

• Ranch

• Ranch home

• Rasta

• Rastafarianism

• Rate lock

• Rate-improvement Mortgage

• Ratification, in the context of Real Estate

• Raw Land

• Real Estate

• Real Estate (Dealers and Developers) Act

• Real Estate Accountant

• Real Estate Acquisitions Manager

• Real Estate Administrator

• Real Estate Agent

• Real Estate Agent Attire

• Real estate agent commission

• Real Estate Agent or Broker

• Real Estate Appraiser

• Real Estate Arena

• Real Estate Asset Manager

• Real Estate Assistant

• Real Estate Associate

• Real Estate Attorney

• Real Estate Board

• Real Estate Boom

• Real Estate Brand Ambassador

• Real estate bubble

• Real Estate Business

• Real estate clothing

• Real estate culture

• Real Estate Data Analyst

• Real Estate Description Generator

• Real estate development costs

• Real estate development projects

• Real estate ethics

• Real estate events

• Real estate experts

• Real estate fashion

• Real Estate Financial Planner

• Real Estate fraud

• Real Estate In Jamaica

• Real Estate in Jamaica

• Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)

• Real Estate Investment Value

• Real Estate Investor

• Real Estate Jobs

• Real estate law

• Real Estate Leasing Agent

• Real estate license cancelled or suspended

• Real estate listings in Jamaica

• Real Estate Loan Officer

• Real estate market conditions

• Real estate market trends

• Real Estate Marketing Specialist

• Real Estate Marketing Specialist (Drone Focused)

• Real estate newsletter

• Real Estate on the Rocks

• Real Estate Photographer

• Real Estate Project Manager

• Real estate purchase offer

• Real estate sector

• Real Estate Stager

• Real estate startups

• Real estate syndications

• Real Estate Syndicator

• Real estate team

• Real estate technology

• Real Estate Training Institute (RETI)

• Real estate transaction

• Real Estate YouTuber

• Real Property

• Realistic Selling Price

• Realtist

• Realtor Associate

• REALTOR®

• REALTORS

• REALTORS®

• Realty

• Rear elevation

• REB

• Rebuild Jamaica

• Receiver appointed for property

• Receptacles

• Recission

• Reconveyance

• Recording

• Recording Fee

• REDDA

• Redlining

• Refinance

• Reggae

• Reggae Contemporary

• Reggae Music

• Regional accounting

• Regional development

• Regional planning

• Registered Land

• Registered owner

• Registered Proprietor(s)

• Registrar of Titles

• Registration fees and taxes

• Registration of Titles Act

• Regulatory

• Rehabilitation Mortgage

• REITs

• Rejection of goods/services

• Relevant Ministry (LG) of Health & Environment and Environmental Health Unit

• Religion

• Religious community

• Remainderman

• Remaining Term

• Renovate

• Rent

• Rent book

• Rent-to-rent

• Rental agreement terms

• Repayment Plan

• Repayment terms

• Repertoire

• Replacement cost

• Replacement Reserve Fund

• Repossession

• Resale

• Resale Value

• Rescission

• Rescission in real estate

• Rescission of contract

• Residential Demand

• Residential Property Manager

• Resort

• Resorts

• Resource allocation

• Resource leveling

• Restrictive Covenant

• Restrictive Covenant in real estate

• Restrictive covenants

• Restructured loan

• Retentions

• RETI

• Retirement community

• Retreat house

• Return on Equity (ROE)

• Return on Investment

• Return on Investment (ROI)

• Return on Total Assets

• Returnee

• Returning resident

• Returning Residents

• Reverse Mortgage

• Revocable Trust

• Revocation before acceptance

• Revolving debt

• Rhaatid

• Riad (architecture)

• RICS

• Right of First Offer

• Right of Redemption

• Right of sale

• Right Of Way

• Right to accelerate debt

• Right to appoint a receiver

• Right to cure the default

• Right to equity in ownership

• Right to Rescission

• Rights of light

• Rights of the mortgagee

• Rio Nuevo Battle Site

• Rio Nuevo Taino Site

• Rio Principle 2

• Risk

• Risk management

• Risk Manager

• Riverton Meadows

• Road Map

• Roadmap

• Roaring River Great House

• Rockfort

• Rolling Calf

• Romalpa clauses

• Romanesque Revival architecture

• Roof plan

• Room

• Roscoria v. Thomson

• Rose Hall Great House

• Roun deh suh

• Roxborough

• Roxborough, Manchester

• RPPD

• RSS feed

• Rude bwoy

• Rudolph Williams

• Rumah Gadang

• Rural Housing Service

• Rural planning

• Russia

• Rustic

s

• Sacristy

• Saint Andrew

• Saint Ann

• Saint Ann’s Bay

• Saint Catherine

• Saint Elizabeth

• Saint James

• Saint Mary

• Saint Thomas

• Sale agreed

• Sale agreement

• Sale of Goods Act

• Sale-leaseback

• Salem

• Sales agency

• Sales Comparable Approach

• Salesman

• Saltbox roof

• Saltbox Style

• Saltbox Style

• Salter’s Hill Baptist Church

• Samuel Sharpe

• San San

• Sand & Stone Residences

• Sangster

• Santa Cruz

• Savanna-la-Mar

• Savanna-la-Mar Baptist Church

• Savanna-la-Mar Court House

• Scale

• Schedule Development

• Schedules

• Schematic designs

• Scope creep

• Scoping

• Scots Kirk

• Scots Kirk Church

• Scottish Jamaicans

• Scrum

• Scrum Master

• SEA – Strategic Environmental Assessment

• Sea view

• Seaford Town

• Sealed bid

• Seaman’s Valley

• Search engine optimization (SEO) for real estate

• Search engine optimization (SEO) for real estate

• Seaview Gardens

• Secondary Mortgage Market

• Section 1031 Exchanges

• Sectional Plan

• Secured loan

• Secured loans

• Security

• Security vetting

• Sekkle

• Seller

• Seller Broker

• Seller take-back

• Seller’s market

• Selling faster for less

• Seminary dormitory

• Senate

• Senior citizens

• Senior Responsible Owner (SRO)

• Septic tanks

• Service charges

• Servient tenement

• Setback

• Settlement Statement

• Seven Mile Beach

• Seventh-day Adventist Church

• Seville Great House

• Seville Heritage Park

• Shared-appreciation Mortgage

• Shared-equity Transaction

• Sheckles Pen

• Shed roof

• Shop

• Shortlisting of Properties

• Shortwood Teachers College

• Si mi yah

• Side elevation

• Single-Family Homes

• Single-family house

• Singularity

• Sinkle Bible

• Sir Alexander Bustamante

• Site Assessment

• Site influences

• Site Plan

• Site Preparation

• Site Supervision

• Sitemap

• Skimming Pricing

• SkyBox Container Residences

• Slavery

• Sligoville

• Smart Contracts

• Smokey Vale

• Social impact real estate

• Social Media Advertising Specialist

• Social Media Content Creator

• Social Media Coordinator

• Social Media Manager

• Social Media Strategist

• Social murder

• Societal impact real estate

• Socio-physical Project

• Socio-spatial

• Solar Panel

• Sold (STC)

• Sold Subject to Contract (STC)

• Sole proprietor

• Sonia Eloise Pottinger

• Sound System

• Source of funds

• Space Home

• Spanish

• Spanish Jamaicans

• Spanish settlers

• Spanish Town

• Spanish Town Cathedral

• Spanish Town Court House

• Spatial planning

• Spatial Planning Framework (SPF)

• Special Agent

• Special assessment

• Special communities

• Special Courts

• Special Deposit Account

• Special Warranty Deed

• Specific performance

• Specifications

• Speculation home

• Spent lubricants

• Spiritual Center

• Spite house

• Split-level style home

• Sprint

• Sprint planning

• Sprocketed eaves

• Square and curved turrets

• Square Footage

• Squatter

• St Anns Parish Church

• St Elizabeth

• St. Ann

• St. Ann’s Bay Fort

• St. Catherine

• St. Dorothy’s Anglican

• St. Elizabeth Parish Church

• St. George’s Anglican

• St. Jago de la Vega

• St. James

• St. Mark’s Anglican Church

• St. Mary Court

• St. Mary’s Anglican

• St. Peter’s Church

• St. Peter’s Church (Alley)

• St. Thomas Parish Church

• St. William Grant Park

• St. William Grant Park

• Stakeholder engagement

• Stakeholders

• Stamp Commissioner’s Certificate

• Stamp Duty

• Stamp Office

• Standard payment calculation

• Starter home

• Statement of Cash flow

• Statement of Work (SOW)

• STATIN

• Statistical Institute of Jamaica

• Statistics (Amendment) Act

• Statute law

• Statutory law

• Statutory limitations

• Statutory Relief

• Steel framing

• Step-free access

• Step-rate mortgage

• Stepped terrac

• Stokes Hall Great House

• Stone house

• Stonebrook

• Stonebrook Estate

• Stonebrook Manor

• Stonehenge

• Stony Gut

• Stony Hill

• Straight sale

• Strata

• Strata Corporation

• Strata Plan

• Strata Title

• Strategic Marketing

• Street Map

• Student accommodation

• Student housing

• Sturge Town

• Subagent

• Subcontractor

• Subdivision approval

• Sublease

• Subletting

• Substitute performance

• Supervisor of Insolvency

• Supply and Demand

• Supply chain management

• Suppressed gable or gambrel roo

• Supreme Court

• Surface excavation

• Surrey County

• Survey

• Surveying

• Surveyor’s Report

• Sustainability in Poorer Countries

• Sustainable development

• Sustainable homes

• Sweat equity

• SWOT analysis

• Systematic Land Registration Programme

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• Tactical Marketing

• Tactile flooring

• Taino

• Taino people

• TAJ

• Tallawah

• Tallawah Retreat

• Tamarind Great House

• Tan

• Tank You

• Tata Somba house

• Tax benefits

• Tax lien

• Tax shelter

• Taxable Deduction

• Taxpayer Registration Number

• TCPA

• Teacha dem

• Tear-down condition

• Teaser rate

• Technology

• Tek weh

• Temporary Buildings

• Ten bwoy

• Tenancy By The Entirety

• Tenant

• Tenant Coordinator

• Tenant improvements

• Tenants in common

• Tenants in common with unequal shares

• Tenure

• Term beginning

• Term length

• Termination by act of parties

• Termination by operation of law

• Terms of Reference (ToR)

• Terrorist financing

• Testamentary capacity

• Testator

• The Admiralty Houses

• The Appeals Process

• The Award of Damages

• The Baha Mar Residences

• The Bank of Jamaica

• The Cabinet of Jamaica

• The capacity to contract

• The Companies Office of Jamaica (COJ)

• The Development Process

• The Doctor Bird

• The fiduciary duties of sales agents

• The Financial Investigations Division (FID)

• The Historic Court House

• The Horizon Mirage

• The House of Assembly

• The impossibility of performance

• The Institute of Jamaica

• The Intestates’ Estates and Property Charges Act

• The Island Heritage House

• The Kingston and St. Andrew Building Act

• The Kingston Metropolitan Region (KMR)

• The Kingston Noir

• The Land Acquisition Act

• The Law Reform (Frustrated Contracts ) Act

• The Local Improvement Act

• The Maroon War

• The Mining Act

• The ministry of economic growth and job creation

• The Moors

• The National Housing Trust (NHT) Home Starter Program

• The National Land Agency

• The National Shrine St. Ann’s Bay

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