Cayman Islands: Construction & Planning

The Real Estate 2025 guide to the Cayman Islands provides the latest legal information on the impact of disruptive technologies, proposals for reform, sale and purchase...

In a previous article, we discussed the current State initiatives that aim to deliver social and affordable housing in Ireland. In this update, we put one of these initiatives under the spotlight...

Off-plan purchases can be a rewarding way to invest in real estate as the value of the property could increase between the date you agree to purchase and the date of closing.

The process for obtaining planning permission for development of property in the Cayman Islands has been updated as a result of the latest revision of the Development and Planning Law and accompanying regulations (July 2015).

The recent House of Lords decision in Chartbrook v Persimmon, with Lord Hoffman delivering the leading judgment, confirmed that the rules for contractual interpretation remain...

In 1971, the Government of the Cayman Islands enacted the Registered Land Law. This Law introduced a system of land registration which is accurate, efficient, and simple. This system is similar in a number of ways to the registered land system in the United Kingdom and to the Australian Torrens System (invented by Sir Robert R. Torrens, an Australian who on the 27th of January, 1858, introduced a bill in South Australia which later became in Australia The Real Property Act).