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When Property Starts Lying: Trust, Technology, and the Jamaican Homebuyer in an AI Age

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Dean Jones
Oct 01, 2025
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There is something quietly unsettling happening in real estate—not loudly enough to cause panic, but persistently enough to raise eyebrows. Property images are becoming too perfect. Lawns are greener than any dry season would allow. Kitchens glow with a kind of symmetry that feels less aspirational and more artificial. Bedrooms appear larger than physics, planning permission, or common sense would permit.

This is not simply a design trend. It is the growing use of AI-generated and AI-enhanced imagery in property marketing—and while much of the global debate around this has been shaped by the United States, the implications for Jamaica are distinct, nuanced, and far more human than technical.

In a small island market where trust still does much of the heavy lifting, the question is not whether AI belongs in real estate, but how far it can go before it quietly erodes confidence.

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