Team & Partners

The real companies to build Belmont — a Chinese builder for the heavy work, Jamaican benchmarks to learn from, NHT to de-risk sales, and a verified local professional team. Score them all in the Vendor Scorecard.

The anchor — heavy build

Chinese Main Contractor · design-build

China Harbour Engineering Co. (CHEC)

The overseas arm of CCCC and the clear Chinese anchor: a Jamaica office since 2010, built the North-South Highway, and is now self-developing the 834-home Mammee Bay gated estate (St. Ann, 6 phases). Precedent: Jamaican developer Sygnus hired CHEC on a design-build contract (Dec 2024) — the exact model for Belmont.

834homes at Mammee Bay

15 yrsin Jamaica

Design-buildproven private-developer deal

checamerica.com · New Kingston office. ⚠ Confirm current contact before outreach.

Local build alternative & state off-take

Main Contractor (JA)

WIHCON

Jamaica's largest housing contractor/developer (~46,000 homes). Building The Estuary in St. James (NHT JV). The natural local builder or JV partner.

wihcon.com

De-risk sales

National Housing Trust (NHT)

Guaranteed Purchase / Developers Programme — off-takes units + low-cost financing. St. James has a 3,531-unit NHT pipeline — the single best way to secure sales before building later phases.

nht.gov.jm

State-build precedent

Complant (CCEC)

Chinese firm that built the Montego Bay Convention Centre (Rose Hall Rd, St. James) via China-EXIM. State/concessional model — not a typical private path.

Benchmarks — learn from the best

Premium · St. James

Rose Hall Developments

The in-market luxury benchmark — sells homesites/lots on the 7,000-ac Rose Hall estate, 15 min to the airport. Study their lot-sale + gated-community model.

rosehall.com

Build-and-sell scale

Gore Developments

"Largest residential developer in the Caribbean" — builds & sells finished gated homes, 50 yrs, NHT partnerships. The build-and-sell benchmark.

goredevelopments.com

The CHEC deal structure

Sygnus Real Estate

Investment-led developer that contracted CHEC design-build and sells serviced lots/income assets. Copy exactly how they structured the deal + capital.

sygnusgroup.com

Local professional team — verified against the boards

Discipline	Real firms (leads)	Verify with
Commissioned Land Surveyor subdivision plan	Gilpin McFarlane & Assoc. ↗	Land Surveyors Board / NLA
Civil / Structural / Geotech hillside is make-or-break	Jentech (geotech/soils) · Beckford & Dixon · Peter Jervis	PERB (Engineers Board)
Architect (MoBay)	Webster-Wright ↗ · GW Architects West	ARB
Quantity Surveyor	LSA QS · Michael Robinson · Richard Pouchet	JIQS / RICS
Sales Agency (diaspora)	Coldwell Banker JA · RE/MAX Elite (MoBay) · Keller Williams (Fairview)	REB member search
Legal / Conveyancing	HAWM Law · ConveyancingLawyerJA	General Legal Council
Environmental (EIA)	Conrad Douglas & Assoc. · Environmental Solutions Ltd	NEPA
Solar / Renewable	Ecopower Jamaica · Conserve It · APS	OUR / JPS net-billing
Property / Strata Mgmt the recurring operation	HoShing Realtors (MoBay) · Sagicor Property Services	Commission of Strata Corps

Firm existence ≠ current registration. Every name is a real firm with a live site; confirm each against its board (above) before contracting — that's what the Vendor Scorecard's "Verified" score tracks. Engineers' board = PERB (not PEBJ). Sources: gov.jm boards, NLA, NEPA, company sites.