Caribbean property risk climate

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.

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.

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.

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.

Four months after Hurricane Beryl, Caribbean recovery exceeds expectations: Jamaica tourism at 98% of prior year, Grenada rebuilding with CDB aid, and Guyana’s oil output surpasses 600,000 bpd.

Three months after Hurricane Beryl, the Caribbean property market shows resilience: CCRIF pays US$52M to governments, insured losses total US$2.5-3B, and winter tourism bookings track ahead of 2023.

Hurricane Beryl devastates the Caribbean in July 2024 — the earliest Category 5 Atlantic storm on record. Carriacou faces near-total destruction, Jamaica counts J$15B in damage, and insurance gaps are exposed.

Hurricane Beryl makes historic landfall on Carriacou, Grenada on 1 July 2024 as the earliest Category 5 Atlantic storm on record, devastating the Windward Islands and tracking toward Jamaica.

The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season opens on 1 June with NOAA forecasting an above-normal season, Caribbean property insurance premiums up 15-20%, and spring tourism closing at record highs across Jamaica and the DR.

The 2023 Atlantic hurricane season, featuring Category 5 Lee and Tammy’s Leeward Islands impacts, approaches its close as Caribbean property insurance costs rise 15-25 percent and winter tourism forward bookings signal a record season.

Our Year-End 2022 Six-Month Special Edition covers 4 July to 3 January 2023 — six months in which the Caribbean posted its best tourism year since 2019, global interest rates rose sharply with severe affordability implications, Hurricane Ian devastated southwest Florida with knock-on effects for Caribbean insurance markets, and Guyana’s oil production continued its dramatic expansion.

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.

Six weeks after Hurricane Fiona struck Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, the Caribbean property insurance market faces 20–35% premium increases as reconstruction needs mount and CCRIF delivers rapid payouts.

Hurricane Fiona devastates Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic’s southwest as Caribbean energy costs hit record highs driven by the Russia-Ukraine war, and construction costs reach 40% above 2020 baselines.