Browsing: Jamaican property law

Kingston, Jamaica, 30 June 2026. Family land is one of the most distinctively Jamaican institutions in the island’s property landscape,…

Kingston, Jamaica, 30 June 2026. A clear line has now been drawn under one of Jamaica’s most persistent land problems.…

Kingston, Jamaica, 9 June 2026. Land in Jamaica is being sold illegally, and the buyers are paying real money for…

Kingston, Jamaica, 15 May 2026. A columnist in the Gleaner this week made a point that deserves to be taken…

The case for reforming Jamaica’s adverse possession law has been made, in various forms, by lawyers, journalists, Privy Council justices,…

In Jamaica, buying a home is often seen as the ultimate milestone. It is the point where aspiration becomes brick…

There is a curious thing about technology. It rarely arrives with a bang. More often, it slips quietly into our…

Kingston, Jamaica, 30 January 2026. A bill tabled in Parliament in January this year will, if passed, do something Jamaica’s…

Buying a home is rarely just a transaction. It is a moment of intent — a decision to put down…

Got you. This needs to feel grounded, Jamaican-first, thoughtful, and steady — not techno-utopian, not tone-deaf, and definitely not copy-paste…

Kingston, Jamaica, 28 August 2025. Jamaica is in the process of digitising its land registry, and the implications of that…

Kingston, Jamaica, 25 June 2025. Jamaica has two adverse possession periods operating in parallel, and the difference between them says…

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In real estate, few phrases cause more confusion than the words “the offer has been accepted.” To buyers, those words…

Kingston, Jamaica, 23 October 2024. Most Jamaicans who think about adverse possession think about it as a risk from strangers,…