Our Year-End 2025 Six-Month Special Edition reviews Caribbean property and investment activity from July to January 2026 — encompassing an above-normal 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, elevated construction costs, accelerating rate cuts, record Caribbean tourism, and the 2026 outlook.

Jamaica ends 2025 with 58 confirmed dead and $2.4 billion in storm damage. Negril closes December at 57% hotel occupancy, slightly above…

Negril hotel occupancy reaches 54% for Christmas week, still far below normal. 3,400 displaced families spend holidays in transitional shelters or shared…

Negril hotel capacity reaches 48 percent of pre-storm levels as reconstruction pace quickens Coastal Development Regulation Reform Bill passes first reading in…

Building Code Commission’s interim report finds 62 percent of failed structures had permit violations Commission recommends mandatory third-party structural inspections for all…

Seven weeks after Hurricane Melissa’s landfall at Black River, St. Elizabeth, the Development Bank of Jamaica has opened full reconstruction loan applications to eligible homeowners across the four most affected parishes.

Six Negril properties now open; combined room inventory represents 22 percent of pre-storm capacity Winter tourism season begins with bookings running 40…

Five weeks after Hurricane Melissa’s landfall at Black River, St. Elizabeth — the most destructive natural disaster in Jamaica’s recorded history — this is a reckoning of what has been achieved in the recovery, what has fallen short, and what the next phase must deliver.

First post-Melissa hotel opens in Negril, welcoming guests to partially restored resort strip Property transaction data shows 18 percent price decline in…

Five weeks after Hurricane Melissa’s landfall at Black River, schools across western Jamaica reopened this week after the longest continuous school closure in recent Jamaican history outside of the COVID-19 pandemic.