Investing in Real Estate, Investing in Family: A Jamaican Story (1930–2000)
By Dean Jones, Founder of Jamaica Homes
There is a story about real estate in Jamaica that rarely gets told properly.
Most people talk about property as numbers: square footage, rental yield, price per acre, beachfront value. But that is not the real story of Jamaican real estate.
The real story begins with family.
It begins with grandparents who believed that a house was more than a building. A house was stability. A house was dignity. A house was a base from which a family could rise.
If you want to understand investing in Jamaican real estate, you have to understand the Jamaican family.
And if you want to understand the Jamaican family, you must go back to the 1930s.
