A comprehensive quarterly review of Jamaica’s property market from July to September 2021, covering a residential sector operating at the peak of the post-pandemic boom, Tropical Storm Grace making landfall on August 17 with significant rainfall and minor flooding, the Delta COVID variant weighing on tourism’s recovery trajectory, a diaspora-fuelled strata apartment market running at historic velocity — and, as this edition goes to press, the Bank of Jamaica raising its overnight policy rate from 0.50% to 1.50% effective yesterday, October 1, 2021 — the first rate increase in thirteen years.

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A comprehensive quarterly review of Jamaica’s property market from April to June 2021, covering a residential sector whose post-pandemic surge had intensified into one of the most active periods in the island’s recorded property history — diaspora capital flowing at record pace, strata apartment launches oversubscribed within hours, the BOJ holding the overnight rate at 0.50% as inflation remained within the target range, and a tourism sector rebuilding carefully as vaccination programmes unlocked gradual international travel recovery.

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