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A comprehensive quarterly review of Jamaica’s property market from October to December 2024, covering the Bank of Jamaica’s three additional rate cuts to close the year at 6%, Moon Palace’s 1,350-room Montego Bay announcement, 4,822 new NHT mortgage accounts worth J$82.9 billion, and the Beryl recovery entering its critical second phase.

A comprehensive quarterly review of Jamaica’s property market from July to September 2024, covering the destruction of Hurricane Beryl, the Bank of Jamaica’s historic first rate cut in the new easing cycle, the economic contraction that followed the storm, and the resilient demand that is already pushing reconstruction activity forward.

A comprehensive quarterly review of Jamaica’s property market from April to June 2024, covering the Bank of Jamaica’s landmark easing signal, flat GDP growth, NHT activity, commercial development, tourism investment, and the ominous approach of Hurricane Beryl as the quarter closes.

A comprehensive quarterly review of Jamaica’s property market from January to March 2024, covering Bank of Jamaica monetary policy, NHT housing programmes, residential demand trends, commercial construction, tourism investment and the economic backdrop shaping property decisions across the island.

A comprehensive quarterly review of Jamaica’s property market from October to December 2023, covering the Bank of Jamaica’s sustained hold at 7.00%, inflation declining toward the target band, a softer development pipeline with 36% fewer units approved across the year, static housing inventory and declining mortgage volumes, and the market’s cautious patience as it waits for the rate relief that analysts believe is approaching.

A comprehensive quarterly review of Jamaica’s property market from July to September 2023, covering the Bank of Jamaica’s continued hold at 7.00%, inflation retreating from its 2022 peak of over 11 per cent toward the target band, a tourism sector tracking strongly for one of its best years, rising mortgage application volumes that are not yet translating into completed transactions, and a market that is, by every measure, waiting.

A comprehensive quarterly review of Jamaica’s property market from April to June 2023, covering the Bank of Jamaica’s continued hold at 7.00%, mortgage rates spiking to a three-year high of 7.76% in May, a 17–25% rise in residential prices since the pandemic compressing affordability, a tourism industry producing one of its best half-years on record, and a market in which intention to buy substantially outpaces ability to complete.

A comprehensive quarterly review of Jamaica’s property market from January to March 2023, covering the Bank of Jamaica’s continuation of its 7.00% policy rate, the highest in more than two decades, inflation that is beginning to moderate from 2022’s double-digit peak, a residential sales market cooling noticeably after the post-pandemic boom, the rental market holding at elevated levels, tourism maintaining strong forward momentum, and a development community recalibrating project economics for the most demanding financing environment in a generation.

A comprehensive quarterly review of Jamaica’s property market from October to December 2022, covering the Bank of Jamaica reaching its 7.00% terminal rate in November, annual inflation of 10.35% and its impact on affordability, a record tourism year of 3.3 million arrivals and US$3.6 billion in earnings surpassing 2019, RAJ transactions declining to 1,608 worth J$108 billion from 2021’s boom, 98 approved developments encompassing 5,135 units for the year, and the market making a decisive turn from boom to consolidation.