Jamaica’s housing market is producing an unusual contradiction in 2026. Mortgage lending is growing, demand for homes remains strong, diaspora buyers are still active and the National Housing Trust is preparing thousands of additional mortgages and housing solutions. Yet sellers are increasingly discovering something uncomfortable: having a willing market does not mean buyers will accept any asking price. The latest…
KINGSTON, Jamaica August 6, 2026 — Sixty-four years after the Union Jack came down at the National Stadium, Jamaica is…
As Jamaica marks Emancipation Day 2026, the country stands between the sacrifices that built it and a new age of…
Jamaica’s property market has traditionally been analysed through familiar local factors such as housing supply, mortgage availability, employment, tourism and…
Rents consuming nearly 58% of average take-home pay, a 150,000-unit housing deficit and a Bank of Jamaica rate that refuses to move — our July 2026 review maps the forces squeezing Jamaica’s renters and first-time buyers and asks what relief, if any, is on the horizon.
Property Market
Artificial intelligence may be wildly overvalued. It may also become one of the technologies that quietly reshapes how property is designed, marketed, financed, built…
A long-running effort to regularise a large municipal property at Easington in…
Homes will be more expensive, but value will depend increasingly on resilience, access, title and whether ordinary Jamaicans can still afford to live in them
Prime minister calls for a “development-first” approach from parish authorities, arguing that Jamaica cannot tackle its housing shortage while viable projects remain trapped in lengthy approval processes.
Mortgages & Money
Five or ten years can make an enormous difference to the deposit sitting between a renter and the front door of a first home
RENTING
England’s new Renters’ Rights regime is about to make landlord registration a much bigger part of renting. But what happens when the property owner is not…
