From billion-dollar apartments overlooking Kingston Harbour to families being moved from vulnerable communities, a succession of housing announcements is exposing a deeper question about Jamaica’s future: Is the country simply building more properties, or creating places where ordinary Jamaicans can afford to belong?
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…
Across the Caribbean, property markets are moving at very different speeds. Yet from Kingston to Bridgetown, Georgetown to Nassau, one problem increasingly unites buyers: the amount paid for a house is not necessarily what that house will ultimately cost.
Property Market
KINGSTON, Jamaica, 28 October 2026. A growing number of British landlords are preparing to sell their rental properties as rising operating costs, taxation and…
A proposed law for Jamaica’s gated communities would let community corporations collect maintenance fees through the courts and, as a last resort, sell the home of an owner who refuses to pay.
KINGSTON, Jamaica — There is a troubling question hanging over Jamaica’s property…
Jamaica’s Senate has passed a Bill to regulate mediation, with possible implications for family land, inheritance and boundary disputes. The proposal does not replace legal title, estate administration or court proceedings where needed.
Mortgages & Money
Mortgage payments are rising, household budgets are shrinking and the dream of owning a home is being pushed further out…
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.