Hurricane Melissa inflicted damage exceeding 40% of Jamaica’s GDP. As the island enters 2026, the Bank of Jamaica holds rates at 5.75%, inflation is set to breach the upper target and rental pressure intensifies. This is Jamaica’s housing market at its most tested point in a generation.

Post-hurricane recovery drives construction cost surges across the Eastern Caribbean as CDB emergency financing flows, insurance markets harden, and winter tourism bookings recover.

The 2025 hurricane season winds down with damage assessments across the Eastern Caribbean revealing a deepening property insurance crisis, disrupted tourism bookings, and urgent CDB emergency financing.

Government slashes electricity GCT, NHT loan limits rise and deposits fall for first-time buyers — yet Jamaica’s housing market faces a rental crisis running at 7.3% inflation and a 150,000-unit deficit. October 2025’s review examines what changed and what still needs to.

September’s peak hurricane activity tests Caribbean property markets, accelerates the insurance capacity crisis, and prompts emergency government and multilateral financing responses across the region.

Caribbean summer tourism breaks records across Jamaica, Barbados and the DR as Barbados champions a US$8 billion clean energy blueprint and the CDB documents a 185,000-unit regional housing deficit.

Jamaica’s first rate cut in years, 800,000 Airbnb guests annually, new NHT reforms and stabilising inflation — this is Jamaica’s housing market finding a fragile equilibrium. July 2025’s review examines what the progress means and what the market still needs to resolve.

NOAA forecasts an above-normal 2025 hurricane season as Jamaica’s IMF programme completes, Barbados launches a US$450 million climate resilience bond, and Caribbean spring tourism closes at record levels.

Record Easter occupancy across Jamaica and Barbados, St Kitts CBI records, Grenada property momentum, and Jamaica hotel construction surge headline Caribbean spring 2025 — as ECCB documents the deepening housing affordability crisis.

US tariffs land 5 days after Jamaica’s most ambitious NHT reforms in a generation are announced, while inflation falls from 7.4% to 4.4% in just months. April 2025’s review assesses Jamaica’s housing market at its most pivotal — and most uncertain — moment in years.