Sources/Real Estate Board Jamaica

TIER B Regulator slug: reb_jm

Real Estate Board Jamaica

Name: Real Estate Board Jamaica — Jamaica business data (via Yard Registry)
Creator: Yard Registry

The Real Estate Board Jamaica (REB) maintains the public register of licensed real estate salesmen, dealers, developers, approved developments, and strata corporations under the Real Estate (Dealers and Developers) Act.

Linked businesses

Field attributions

0.85

Source confidence

—

Last ingestion

Provenance & governance

Source URL

https://reb.gov.jm/ ↗

Classification

Regulator · Tier B

License

Public records · Real Estate (Dealers and Developers) Act

Ingest method

Paginated HTTP GET across 5 register types (salesman, dealer, developer, development, strata) with 5s per-page pacing and SHA-256 deduplication.

Ingest cadence

Monthly

Robots policy

Honored on every fetch · 403/429 cause immediate termination · no full-page scraping

Confidence weight

0.85 — used in canonicalization scoring

Operational notes

6,825 registrants across 5 register types. The salesman and dealer registers contain individual personal data (names, emails, phones) collected under the Real Estate (Dealers and Developers) Act. Processing is conducted under Jamaica's Data Protection Act 2020. Only Active-status entities are surfaced in commercial intelligence products.

Canonical fields extracted

license_number full_name status register_type email phone

Only the listed fields are stored. No behavioral data, no cookies, no IP addresses, no full-page captures.

Operational transparency

Real, deterministic metrics from this source's recent track record. No marketing claims — just the numbers the platform's own scoring sees.

Composite

0.42

Reliability

0.50

Freshness

0.30

Stability

0.50

Enrichment value

0.00

Operational risk

0.00

Computed 2026-06-05 12:30:02 · methodology in score_source_confidence.py.

Composite score · last 30 days

2026-06-05 2026-06-05

Recent runs · last 14

What you see: these metrics are the same numbers used by Yard Registry's own scoring engine. They are deterministic, reproducible, and updated daily by scheduled jobs. See methodology and governance disclosures.

How this source contributes to the canonical graph.

Records ingested from Real Estate Board Jamaica are normalized (phone E.164, parish names, business-name cleaning), then put through the blocking and merge pipeline. When a record matches an existing canonical entity above the 0.92 confidence threshold, it is auto-merged and attributed via source_attribution. Below 0.92 and above 0.70 it enters the review queue. The Real Estate Board Jamaica source carries a confidence weight of 0.85 in this scoring.

Every JBIP canonical entity that contains data from this source can be traced back to it via the public profile page (when available) and via the /api/v1/entities/{canonical_id} endpoint.

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