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Dreaming in Concrete and Coral Stone: A Jamaican Property Story

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Dean Jones
Feb 20, 2025
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There is something wonderfully audacious about deciding to build a life on a rock in the Caribbean.

Not just to visit it. Not just to sip something cold while watching the sun melt into the horizon. But to stay. To anchor yourself. To say, “Here. This is where my walls will rise.”

In Jamaica, property is not simply a transaction. It is theatre. It is geology and memory colliding. It is ambition wrestling with budget on a hillside that may or may not have proper access yet.

And like every ambitious build I’ve ever admired, it begins with a dream.

But dreams, left unchecked, have a habit of colliding with reality — particularly when fuel costs, bank approvals, terrain, and timelines enter the frame.

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