Caribbean property forecast

Barbados mourns Prime Minister David Thompson who died in office October 23, as Hurricane Tomas devastates St Lucia and St Vincent in the final days of October.

The Caribbean’s most active 2010 hurricane season in years renews focus on property insurance resilience, while T&T tables its 2011 budget and investors pivot to year-end planning.

Hurricane Earl tracks near Antigua, Barbuda and the British Virgin Islands as a powerful Category 4 storm in August 2010, testing Caribbean property resilience amid an active Atlantic season.

Caribbean summer tourism peaks in 2010 following BP well capping in July, with T&T’s new Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar setting a fresh economic agenda and regional investor confidence recovering.

The BP Deepwater Horizon well is capped in mid-July, relieving Caribbean tourism anxiety, while T&T’s new PM Persad-Bissessar sets her economic agenda and summer bookings recover.

Trinidad and Tobago makes history as Kamla Persad-Bissessar becomes the country’s first female Prime Minister, while the Atlantic hurricane season opens and BP’s oil continues to flow.

The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill triggers Caribbean tourism anxiety over perception damage, while Trinidad and Tobago braces for a historic general election just weeks away.

Caribbean property markets show genuine recovery momentum in spring 2010 as Jamaica’s IMF programme begins and the Dominican Republic leads the region in tourism and FDI.

Caribbean property and investment markets show early recovery signs in early 2010 as Haiti earthquake reconstruction draws regional solidarity and Jamaica signs a new IMF arrangement.

The devastating Haiti earthquake of January 12, 2010 shocks the entire Caribbean region, prompting a massive humanitarian response and raising urgent questions about regional resilience and property insurance.

The Caribbean enters 2010 with cautious optimism as global recovery takes hold, property markets show early stabilisation, and the region hopes for a return to tourism growth.

The Caribbean marks the end of 2009 — its worst economic year in decades — with tourism down sharply, property markets subdued, but global recovery signals offering tentative hope for 2010.

Caribbean tourism operators enter the 2009-10 holiday season with cautious optimism as deep discounting drives bookings, and distressed property creates bargain opportunities for cash buyers.

The Caribbean takes stock of 2009’s tourism collapse and property market distress as global recession shows early green shoots, while H1N1 fears begin to recede.

The Caribbean’s tourism sector takes stock after its worst summer in decades, while below-normal hurricane season activity offers one silver lining amid the ongoing fiscal and health crisis.