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There is a house in Kingston that has been on the market for two years. The asking price is reasonable…

There is a Jamaican expression — “hard time no easy” — that captures something the economists’ spreadsheets never quite manage…

Every building eventually reveals its structural deficiencies. The cracks appear slowly at first — a hairline fracture in the render,…

There are moments in a building’s life when the structure and its inhabitants reach an unspoken understanding. Both know that…

Every structure, no matter how badly damaged, has a moment when it reaches the lowest point of its distress. The…

There is a particular horror in a building site that has been abandoned mid-construction. The steel rods rise from the…

The timing could not have been more brutal. In 2007 and 2008, Jamaica’s property market was at the peak of…

Every building project has a moment when the structure is at its most photogenic — the steel frame up, the…

There are moments in a building’s construction when everything goes right simultaneously. The weather is good. The materials arrive on…

Sometime in the last eighteen months, Jamaica’s property market changed gear. Not noisily — it is not in the Jamaican…

A house survives a hurricane by virtue of the quality of its construction — the depth of its foundations, the…

Every renovation project has a moment when things are neither the ruin they were nor the improvement they will become.…

There is a moment in any serious renovation when the contractor discovers that the damage runs deeper than the survey…

There is something particular about the way a building looks in the first months after a fire. The structure stands…

There are buildings that survive the initial disaster only to be finished off by what comes next. The earthquake shakes…