When Finance Minister Audley Shaw rose in the House of Representatives in April 2018 to present Budget 2018–19, the question uppermost in…

The constitutional clock on the Holness government’s first term is running. The property market, which has learned to track political risk with the same discipline it applies to interest rates, opens 2019 in good health but with an ear to the ground.

Something shifted in Jamaica’s economy in the opening months of 2018, and the data that emerged through the quarter made the shift…

GDP growth in 2018 will mark Jamaica’s seventh consecutive year of economic expansion — a sequence without precedent in the modern era. The property market closes the year in step with the economy: quieter than 2017’s boom, but deeper and more durable.

Jamaica closed 2017 with its seventh consecutive tourism record, a primary surplus maintained well above programme targets, and a debt-to-GDP ratio that…

For the second consecutive year, Jamaica’s hurricane season closed without a direct hit on the island’s most valuable property corridors. The market absorbed the seasonal anxiety and moved on. The numbers for Q3 confirm steady expansion.

In early September 2017, Jamaica watched Hurricane Irma — one of the most powerful Atlantic storms ever recorded — pass north of…

Two years after the stamp duty reform and with the IMF’s most favourable endorsement in a generation secured, Jamaica’s property market enters mid-2018 in a posture of confident consolidation. The race to the top has given way to the harder work of sustaining the gains.

The first full quarter of life after Jamaica’s IMF Extended Fund Facility posed the question that economists had long debated: would the…

The first quarter of 2018 brings the first signs of price deceleration in the premium segment as new supply enters the market. The boom continues, but the geometry is changing.