Month: July 2015

As governments and developers struggle with rising costs and housing shortages in 2015, volumetric construction systems like MoVoCoSy are gaining…

Modern methods of construction require a redesign of the way homes are put together. This means that many of the…

By the summer of 2014, Jamaica’s tourism sector was no longer a story about resilience — it was a story…

The Long Walk: Jamaica in 2014 The discipline of 2013 had to be sustained, repeated and deepened in 2014 —…

The importance of hiring the right Project Manager for Your Startup cannot be overstated enough. Whenever senior managers are asked…

Falling oil prices and Greece’s debt crisis are the summer’s dominant external themes. This review asks what either means for Jamaican households — and concludes that global events have nudged but not resolved the structural housing affordability challenge that no external development can fix alone.

The importance of hiring the right project manager cannot be overstated enough, especially in the context of new home building…

Greece imposes capital controls and misses its IMF payment as Q2 2015 ends in crisis. Jamaica, watching from a position of hard-won stability, passes another programme review as mortgage rates fall and the property market stirs.

Publication date: 5 July 2015 | Covering: June 2015 Monthly Briefing FRESH: Greece missed IMF €1.5bn payment June 30 (5…

Jamaica housing market mid-year review, June–July 2015: IMF programme milestones, NHT policy debate, construction trends, and the path to rate relief.

Cameron’s unexpected majority in May 2015 signals five more years of hostile environment immigration policy and continued refusal to discuss reparations. But the Caribbean is not waiting: CARICOM’s ten-point programme is gaining traction, and Jamaica’s parliament is preparing to formally back the reparatory justice cause.

Jamaica Homes Global Conflict & Caribbean Impact Review | Published 3 July 2015 | Reporting Period: 3 April – 2…

The Caribbean investment landscape continues to shift in the wake of the Guyana Liza oil discovery as the region tracks diplomatic normalisation between the United States and Cuba. The 2015 hurricane season presents ongoing property risk considerations across the archipelago.

The quarterly intelligence report on Jamaica’s global diaspora for April–June 2015: the Charleston church massacre of 17 June shocks the Caribbean-American community and re-energises the Black Lives Matter movement; the UK’s surprise Conservative majority election result has significant implications for British-Jamaican communities; Baltimore’s unrest following Freddie Gray’s death; and Jamaica’s athletics programme builds toward Beijing.

A quarterly review of Jamaica’s property market from April to June 2015, with the IMF Extended Fund Facility programme’s fiscal disciplines still the dominant constraint on household income and consumer confidence, but the Bank of Jamaica’s gradual rate easing delivering progressive improvement in mortgage affordability, a shoulder tourism season performing ahead of the prior year, and the strata apartment sector establishing its first genuine pipeline of concurrent projects whose construction activity was beginning to reshape Kingston’s residential supply picture in ways that the coming years would make significant.