Spain’s Socialist government moved in 2018 to inventory Catholic Church property, some 40,000 buildings and sites, arguing that some had been wrongly registered as Church-owned, while bishops warned of a “clandestine confiscation”.

A $50-million Cabinet-mandated master plan will create a formal vision for New Negril along the Hanover coastline. For landowners and investors in western Jamaica, the plan marks the moment informal interest becomes formal development agenda.

The Caribbean region, including Jamaica, has experienced significant changes in leadership and business practices over the past decade. As global dynamics and…

Writing in the Observer, priest and commentator Raulston Nembhard argued that churches have poorly managed their land, and proposed NHT partnerships, a tax on idle church acreage and an end to adverse possession claims against registered owners.

The European Court of Justice ordered Italy to recover unpaid ICI property tax from Church bodies, a sum one politician put at at least four billion euros, after a long fight led by a small Rome Montessori school.

Publication date: 5 November 2018 | Covering: October 2018 Monthly Briefing Fed September 26 (September coverage): Third hike of 2018 to 2.00–2.25%;…

Jamaica’s housing market completes a resilient year as hurricane season ends, winter tourism begins, and the property market enters its year-end finishing sprint.

The 2018 hurricane season draws to a close having largely spared the Caribbean, a merciful contrast to the catastrophe of 2017. Barbados’s IMF programme negotiations near conclusion as the Mottley government demonstrates fiscal commitment, and the winter tourism season opens with strong advance bookings.

A Gleaner editorial on churches losing land to squatters, including a Moravian estate in St Elizabeth, called for a balance between property rights and social need and urged legislators to review the law of adverse possession.

Kingston, Jamaica, 1 November 2018. If squatting and adverse possession were problems that affected only inattentive private landowners who had migrated abroad…