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Selling Property In Jamaica

When selling, the margin between a smooth closing and a stalled one often comes down to the quality of your legal team. We prepare and manage every document the transaction requires — giving you and your purchaser confidence at every stage.

Transfer Tax is 2% of the sale price or appraised value, whichever is higher, and is payable by the vendor. We calculate and file it, and where your property is subject to an existing mortgage, we obtain the mortgage statement, coordinate with your lender, and settle the outstanding balance from the sale proceeds so the title can transfer clear.

• Preparation Of The Sale Agreement
• Transfer Tax Calculation And Filing
• Mortgage Statement & Pay-Off Coordination
• Caveat Review, Preparation, Or Removal
• Proportionate Share Calculations For Multiple Proprietors
• Coordination With The Purchaser's Attorney To Completion

International & Diaspora Clients

We represent buyers from every corner of the world — returning Jamaicans from the UK, United States, and Canada; Australian investors drawn by the lifestyle; a growing base of Chinese clients acquiring residential and commercial property; and Caribbean neighbours and European buyers purchasing second homes.

Distance is never a reason to delay. Video consultations across time zones, secure document couriering, and funds held in a regulated trust account until completion — every step is documented and every communication confirmed in writing.

• Remote Video Consultations Across Every Time Zone
• Secure Courier Coordination For Signed Documents
• Regulated Trust Account For Purchase Funds
• Returning Resident Guidance & Statutory Benefits
• Mandarin- And English-Language Correspondence
• Coordination With Foreign Lenders, Realtors & Advisors

Developers & Investors

From land assembly through subdivision approvals to the individual unit sales that complete your project — we structure and document property developments end-to-end. Local developers, diaspora investors, and foreign groups entering the Jamaican market all require the same thing: clear structure, clean title, and documents that hold up under scrutiny.

We act alongside you at every stage of a development, coordinating with architects, surveyors, the National Land Agency, the local planning authority, and financing institutions so the legal work keeps pace with the build.

• Acquisition Of Development Land
• Subdivision & Splinter Title Applications
• Parish Council Approvals
• Carriage Of Sale To Purchasers
• Contract Negotiations & Pre-Sale Agreements
• Rental, Lease & Homeowners Association Agreements
• Construction Compliance & Court Proceedings

Title Transfers & Registration

Title work takes many forms — transfers between family members, transfers from estates to beneficiaries, noting the death of a joint tenant, lost title applications, first registration of unregistered land, and claims in adverse possession. Every change to the title record must be properly registered at the National Land Agency to take legal effect.

Transfer Tax may be waived in certain circumstances. The most straightforward is a transfer between spouses, which generally attracts no Transfer Tax. Transfers between parents and children can also be exempted, though these typically require additional supporting steps. Where one proprietor of a jointly-owned property has passed away, we attend to noting the death on the title so the surviving proprietor's interest is properly reflected.

For land that has never been brought under the Registration of Titles Act, we handle first registration — surveying coordination, application preparation, and statutory advertisement. Where a person has occupied land openly and continuously for the required statutory period, we also prepare and lodge adverse possession applications to have ownership formally recognised.

• Spouse-To-Spouse Transfers (Transfer Tax Generally Waived)
• Parent-To-Child Transfers (Waiver Available With Additional Steps)
• Noting The Death Of A Joint Tenant On Title
• Transfers From Estates To Beneficiaries
• Addition Or Removal Of Registered Proprietors
• First Registration Of Unregistered Land
• Adverse Possession Applications
• Lost Title Applications With Supporting Affidavits
• Caveat Preparation, Lodgement, And Removal