Jamaica’s tourism-fuelled north coast property market intensifies as the housing deficit deepens and hurricane season peaks. August 2018 monthly review.

Rising oil prices and commodity costs squeeze Jamaica housing affordability as the summer market peaks and the Atlantic hurricane season quietly begins.

Portia Simpson Miller’s new PNP government takes its first steps on housing and NHT policy. The property market shows early signs of post-election recovery as confidence returns.

With the December 29 election set, JLP and PNP compete on housing pledges. NHT reform and affordability dominate campaign debate as the property market holds its breath.

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Extradition tensions with the US cloud investor confidence as Jamaica’s housing market awaits the first concrete signs of post-JDX interest rate relief in April 2010.

The Jamaica Debt Exchange closes successfully in February, opening a credible path to lower BOJ rates and reduced commercial mortgage costs for the first time in years.

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