Jamaica’s property sector faces new regulations, housing recovery challenges, water supply constraints, commercial vacancies and growing affordability pressure.
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica is building a new north coast. Thousands of homes are rising across St Mary, St Ann,…
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica’s property market is sending mixed signals. Buyers are gaining negotiating power in Kingston and St Andrew.…
New homes, contested land, rising rents and billions in pension savings made this a revealing week for Jamaican property. Beneath the individual headlines was one persistent problem: demand for secure, affordable housing is running considerably faster than the country can supply it.
Jamaica’s housing market is producing an unusual contradiction in 2026. Mortgage lending is growing, demand for homes remains strong, diaspora…
Property Market
When slavery ended, Britain paid £20 million to slave owners and nothing to the people they had owned. We traced what Jamaica’s share came to, who collected it, which estates survive and what the ledger means for land on the island today.
Jamaica’s biggest landowner is not a planter family, a bauxite giant or a hotel chain. It is an office most Jamaicans have never heard of. Inside the state’s 45,000 parcels, the squatter’s 60 year clock, and the political fight over public land.
Five Caribbean islands sell citizenship with a condo. Jamaica sells property to anyone but has never sold a passport. Inside the passport trade, the US crackdown, and who is really buying the Caribbean.
Jamaica has 795 kilometres of shoreline. Just 4.5 kilometres is designated public beach. Who owns the rest, what the law really says, and what the new beach policy would change.
Mortgages & Money
Will Jamaican mortgage rates ease in 2027? A data-led look at BOJ policy, NHT financing, house prices and affordability.
RENTING
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A Jamaican earning the national minimum wage of J$17,000 for a 40 hour week makes roughly J$73,700 a month before deductions. Put that…
Diaspora & Migration
Britain promised to put right the wrongs done to the Windrush generation. Seven years after compensation began, about a third of decided claims have produced a payment, at least 66 claimants have died waiting, and the Home Office is still marking its own homework. A full accounting of what happened, what didn’t, and what could have been done better.