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If Miami Is a Gold Rush, Jamaica’s North Coast Is the Untapped Treasure

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Mar 05, 2026
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Every few months another headline appears about Miami’s luxury property boom.

Billionaires are buying up islands.
Homes are selling for $100 million.
Tech founders and hedge fund managers are building compounds with helipads and private docks.

The narrative is clear: Miami is the new Gilded Age playground.

But step back for a moment and ask a simple question.

If Miami is a gold rush… what exactly is Jamaica?

Because geographically, aesthetically and culturally, Jamaica arguably has everything Miami has — and more.

And yet the prices tell a completely different story.

Miami: Billionaires Competing for a View

In Miami Beach and the surrounding islands of Biscayne Bay, the ultra-wealthy are competing for a tiny strip of land barely a mile wide.

There are only a handful of waterfront estates available at any given time. Billionaires are buying neighbouring properties just to combine them into mega-compounds.

Jeff Bezos.
Mark Zuckerberg.
Larry Page.

These are not people looking for a place to live.

They a…

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