Caribbean: Economic Freedom Rating, 5-Yr Change

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Cuba	-21.70%
Bahamas	-3.23%
Haiti	-3.18%
Jamaica	-1.21%
Belize	-1.03%
Barbados	0.00%
Dom. Rep.	1.32%
Trinidad & T.	2.07%

Caribbean: Economic freedom index, 5-year change

Increased economic freedom is strongly associated with high GDP growth, and therefore with rises in residential property prices. Changes in a country’s score on the Heritage Foundation’s freedom index are calculated by the Global Property Guide to produce a 5-point rating:

• Greatly Improved
• Improved
• Nuetral
• Worse
• Much Worse

Source: Calculated using figures from The Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal

Statistics for the Caribbean. Statistical work in the Caribbean is weak, and house price statistics are almost non-existent. The partial exception is the US Virgin Islands, which benefits from a multiple listings system.