Browsing: Caribbean

St Vincent and the Grenadines has signed an agreement to rebuild Palm Island Resort and the Anchorage Yacht Club on Union Island, both destroyed by Hurricane Beryl in July 2024, as a luxury five-star resort and a boutique four-star property with more than 200 permanent jobs expected on completion.

Europe’s oldest luxury hotel group, Kempinski Hotels, has broken ground on its first Caribbean property, a 119-residence branded residential resort on Grace Bay Beach in Turks and Caicos, developed with JTRE and due for completion in early 2028.

The Bahamas faces a housing affordability crisis with property prices rising seven times faster than wages since 2012, as short-term rentals squeeze residential inventory and political pressure mounts for 2,000 new homes annually.

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Guyana’s housing ministry spent over half its 2025 annual budget by June but delivered only 265 completed homes, exposing a delivery gap that critics say reflects systemic failures in planning, procurement and land title processing rather than a shortage of resources.

Saint Lucia has secured a 20-million-dollar Eximbank loan to fund climate-resilient affordable housing, building on a multi-layered government programme that includes CIP-funded developments, VAT relief on construction materials, and a public servants’ housing finance scheme.

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Barbados is experiencing its most active luxury building cycle in more than 14 years, with Platinum Coast properties achieving double-digit price growth, record sale prices, and intense developer competition for the remaining beachfront parcels as supply tightens to historic lows.

Five Eastern Caribbean nations have formed ECCIRA, a joint citizenship by investment regulatory authority, after the European Parliament moved to allow suspension of Schengen visa-free access for CBI programme nationals, directly threatening the real estate investment pipeline that funds Caribbean development.

Jamaica’s target of eight million visitors by 2030 is one of the most ambitious statements of intent in the Caribbean region. Its implications for land values, development corridors, and investor positioning are substantial.

Barbados has announced a structural reset in housing policy, overhauling the HOPE programme to focus on partnerships rather than direct construction, reorienting the NHC toward maintenance, and reviving plans to convert derelict buildings into homes as over 18,000 housing applications remain pending.

Barbados’s largest private investment, the 175-million-dollar Hyatt Ziva hotel at Carlisle Bay, is advancing to its vertical construction phase after nine years of delays, promising 380 rooms, 40 condominiums, 2,000 construction jobs and 1,200 permanent positions.

St Vincent and the Grenadines announced four major hotel developments totalling over 1,000 new rooms, led by a Beaches Resort by Sandals expected to create 2,000 jobs, as the country recorded over 100,000 stay-over visitors for the first time in its history.

The Bahamas is experiencing one of its most ambitious hotel and resort development waves in years, anchored by Baha Mar’s 700-million-dollar expansion, Atlantis’s 1.93-billion-dollar refinancing, and major new luxury projects in Exuma, Eleuthera and the Out Islands.

There’s something poetic about watching a building rise.From the cracked soil of a long-forgotten lot to a gleaming glass façade…