Abstract
In developing countries worldwide, governments and citizens hold massive amounts of real property and unmovable assets that are hidden or underutilized. Citizens, particularly the poor, are unable to maximise economic output from real property. The situation in Jamaica is no exception to this problem in 2015. Against this background, the challenge is to design and implement a self-sustaining property information and valuation system which could generate both information and greater tax returns for the government land office. This has been an interesting and challenging experience. Not only did it lead to the discovery of a demand across all sectors of society for freely accessible information regarding land and property data, but it also provided an alternative for the private sector to create a transparent, user-friendly, mobile-accessible website that displays all of this data for free. This can be accomplished by using the advertising potential that lies within the value of real estate for sale and rent.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 29-31 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Volume | 31 |
| No | 6 |
| Specialist publication | GIM International |
| State | Published - Jun 2017 |