Jamaicas property market hit roughly $99.3 billion in sales in 2025, growing through a Category 5 hurricane on the strength of rate cuts, NHT incentives and sustained foreign investment.

A family of six in New Market, St Elizabeth, who had lived in a church manse after losing their rented home, has spent eight months in an unfinished church hall since Hurricane Melissa, the Jamaica Star reported.

Nine-year-old Zymena Boyce is running her own candle business, Zimmie Candle Studio, while still a primary school student, part of a broader Jamaican push toward early youth entrepreneurship.

An estimated 95 percent of Jamaican homes are underinsured, and Hurricane Melissa turned that statistic into real, reduced payouts. What the average clause is, and how to check if it applies to you.

Stamp duty, transfer tax, property tax: what buyers and sellers actually owe on a Jamaican property transaction, and the one major tax, capital gains, that Jamaica simply does not charge.

Barbados’ Codrington Trust, custodian of lands left to found an Anglican college in 1710, says 25 residents got property conveyances in a year under an $18 million reparations programme, with all residents meant to be landowners by 2028.