Caribbean property forecast

A special retrospective spanning the full seventeen-year archive of the Caribbean Property & Investment Review — from the global financial crisis of 2009 through Guyana’s oil era and beyond, to July 2026.

The Caribbean ends 2025 having weathered an active hurricane season, persistent cost-of-living pressures and global macroeconomic uncertainty to deliver solid economic growth across most major markets. Our year-end review assesses the region’s performance, the prospects for 2026 and where investment opportunities are emerging.

The Caribbean closes 2024 with resilience: Hurricane Beryl struck in July, tourism set records, Guyana’s oil output hit 620k bpd, and Jamaica’s fiscal discipline delivered a seventh straight surplus.

Our Year-End 2023 Six-Month Special Edition covers 4 July to 3 January 2024 — six months defined by a relatively quiet hurricane season, US interest rates held at 22-year highs of 5.25–5.5%, continued Caribbean tourism records, Guyana oil approaching 400,000 bpd, the Dominican Republic luxury boom, and a 2024 outlook shaped by anticipated rate relief.

Caribbean tourism surpassed 2019 pre-pandemic records in 2023 as Guyana’s oil production reached 400,000 bpd. As 2024 begins, the region’s property markets balance strong tourism-driven demand against high interest rate headwinds.

A comprehensive review of 2022’s defining events for Caribbean property and investment: the Russia-Ukraine inflation shock, Hurricane Fiona, tourism’s dramatic recovery and Guyana’s oil boom, with a 2023 outlook.

A comprehensive review of the Caribbean property and investment landscape in 2021 — tourism recovery, Barbados republic, Guyana oil revenues — and an outlook for 2022 as Omicron clouds the horizon.

As 2020 draws to a catastrophic close, the Caribbean faces a year of unprecedented tourism devastation, record hurricane damage, and pandemic economic emergency. But Pfizer’s vaccine announcement on November 9 has ignited genuine hope — and the Barbados Welcome Stamp is redefining Caribbean property’s future.

A comprehensive year-end review of Caribbean property and investment in 2018: the region’s remarkable recovery from the 2017 hurricane catastrophe, Barbados’s landmark IMF programme signed in October, Jamaica’s fiscal success story, and the themes that will define 2019.

Mia Mottley’s BLP won all 30 seats in Barbados’s 24 May 2018 election — the most decisive electoral result in the island’s history. The new PM brings a bold economic reform agenda. The Caribbean tourism season closes strongly, the 2018 hurricane season opens on 1 June, and nine-month reconstruction updates across Irma and Maria territories.

The Caribbean closes the books on 2017 — the most catastrophic year in the region’s modern property and investment history. Two Category 5 hurricanes, Irma and Maria, reshaped the regional landscape in September while the unaffected islands delivered their strongest winter season in years. We assess what 2017 meant and what 2018 holds.

The Caribbean closes 2016 with record tourism arrivals, Matthew’s shadow, and the uncertainties of Trump’s approaching presidency. Our year-end review assesses the region’s property markets and sets out the key themes to watch in 2017.

Our year-end edition surveys the Caribbean property and investment landscape as 2015 closes: the Paris Agreement sets new climate benchmarks, oil prices collapse toward historic lows, Trinidad & Tobago faces fiscal headwinds, and Caribbean tourism closes out a record year. What does 2016 hold?

COP21 is in session in Paris as the Caribbean watches the climate negotiations with acute urgency. The Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates for the first time since 2006 later this month. Oil prices are near multi-year lows, the year-end Caribbean property market closes on a note of resilient optimism.

Oil prices remain near multi-year lows at $45-50 per barrel as Trinidad & Tobago’s austerity programme takes shape, bringing real consequences for the property market. US-Cuba normalisation continues to dominate Caribbean investment thinking. Trinidad Carnival 2015 approaches on February 16-17. Caribbean property markets show diverging trajectories between energy-dependent and tourism-driven economies.