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The Cayman Islands Is in the Middle of a Branded Residential Resort Boom

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Marriott Is Reopening These Two All-Inclusive Beach Resorts in Barbados in 2026

When Marriott International acquired Elegant Hotels back in 2019, it quietly reshaped Barbados’ resort landscape. The deal brought a collection of established beachfront properties into Marriott’s portfolio. More importantly, it kicked off Marriott’s foray into the all-inclusive space, beginning what has been a massive expansion into all-inclusive all over the Caribbean region and beyond. In […]

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Big Hotel Brands Are Betting on The Dominican Republic's New Investment Hotspot

The Dominican Republic’s tourism investment map is shifting. For years, the Punta Cana–Bávaro corridor has dominated large-scale development, drawing the bulk of the country’s resort capital. While tourism remains strong across the country, from Punta Cana to La Romana, it’s one corner of the Dominican Republic that is seeing the most interest. But on the […]

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Jamaica’s New Investment Super-Cycle: Inside the Island's New Wave of Resort and Real Estate Megaprojects

Jamaica is entering a fresh development cycle anchored by two headline projects on the north coast: the billion-dollar Harmony Cove in Trelawny and the US$450 million Pinnacle community on Montego Bay’s Reading Peninsula. Together they signal renewed confidence from global brands and capital—pairing resort hospitality, branded residences, gaming, golf, and lifestyle retail—while raising the bar […]

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There’s a Residential Resort Boom in Turks and Caicos — Here’s What’s You Need to Know

Cranes now punctuate the skyline from Grace Bay to Long Bay as Turks and Caicos leans into a strategy that blends five-star hospitality with for-sale homes. The next two years bring a wave of branded and design-driven residential resorts — Andaz, St. Regis, The Loren and Kempinski among them — on top of a maturing […]

Jamaica’s New Investment Super-Cycle: Inside the Island's New Wave of Resort and Real Estate Megaprojects

The Bahamas is in the middle of one of its most ambitious hotel development waves in years, with a slate of new luxury resorts, branded residences and cruise-line destinations reshaping the country’s tourism landscape. From a fourth resort at Baha Mar to billion-dollar projects in Exuma and Eleuthera, the pipeline spans nearly every corner of […]

Grand Cayman Real Estate: Luxury Market Remains Robust

The Cayman Islands real estate market is showing signs of normalization, according to the new Q2 2025 market report from Provenance Properties, with a slight year-over-year dip in transaction volume and value—but continued strength at the high end of the market. In the first half of 2025, the Cayman Islands recorded US$534 million in total […]

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Demand for Turks and Caicos Real Estate Is Holding Strong, With Growing Pipeline of Branded Residences

While suggestions of global real estate cooling persist, Turks and Caicos is charting its own course — with strong fundamentals, a tightening inventory pipeline, and a buyer pool that’s both focused and motivated. The island nation’s property market, long favored for its low-density luxury and investment appeal, is proving resilient midway through 2025. According to […]

More Americans Are Buying Real Estate in Barbados

Barbados is in the midst of a real estate transformation — one being driven by second homeowners. And for the first time in three decades, it’s Americans, not Brits, who are fueling the demand. Between January and September of last year alone, more than 175,000 travelers from the United States arrived in Barbados — a […]

A Guide to All the Projects in Turks and Caicos' Resort Pipeline

Turks and Caicos is currently undergoing one of the region’s biggest development booms, with more than 10 significant hotel projects expected to be completed in the next five years. Here’s what you need know about the projects opening soon and others with a little more time to sell. This is our guide to the resort […]

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Ritz-Carlton's Caribbean Resort Pipeline

We’re in the midst of a full-fledged luxury hotel boom in the Caribbean, with luxury hotels seemingly popping up all over the region with a growing frequency at a rate we really haven’t seen since the heart of the pandemic, when a huge infusion of capital went into large developments across the region. That includes […]

The Caribbean Economic Forecast for 2025

The Caribbean is poised to outpace much of Latin America in 2025, buoyed by tourism momentum and oil-fueled growth in Guyana, according to the World Bank’s latest LACER economic report. Real GDP in several Caribbean nations is forecast to grow faster than the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) regional average of 2.1 percent, ith Dominica […]

Why the Puerto Rico Hotel Market Is So Strong Right Now

It just might be the strongest hotel market in the Caribbean right now, a region that seems to be more resilient to the current global uncertainty than what you might think. So what is making Puerto Rico so resilient? It’s a combination of factors, according to JLL senior managing director Andrew Dickey, who runs the […]