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Cabinet approval advances a US$756.9 million Montego Bay development, but separate regulatory clearance is still required before casino gaming can begin
A law born in 1881 can still transfer the ground beneath a registered owner’s feet. The question is not whether Jamaica should erase adverse possession, but whether it can rebuild it for the country that now exists.
Kingston, Jamaica, 24 August 2026. Marriott International has signed an agreement to convert the former Catalonia Montego Bay into a 522-room…
From cleared development sites and missing titles to mortgage relief and a new ethical code, Jamaica’s property week exposed the uneasy machinery behind the national dream of ownership.
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See MoreUK private rents rose 3.3 percent in the year to June 2026, reaching £1,388 per month on average, as the market cooled from its 2023 peak but remained structurally undersupplied by 25 percent relative to pre-pandemic levels. The data confirms that slower rent growth is not the same as improved affordability. For Jamaica, where equivalent rental data does not exist, the UK’s comprehensive market intelligence points to what is possible when housing policy is built on evidence.
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Jamaica wants its diaspora to return and invest. But what happens when a lifetime’s work is left exposed to squatting, intimidation and a system that acts only after the damage is done?
For many Jamaicans overseas, building a home back home is not merely a property transaction.…
Jamaica is famous enough to sell the dream, trusted enough to host foreign investors and welcoming enough to open its borders—but apparently not influential enough to secure equal treatment for its own citizens.
There is an argument gaining attention in the United States that higher mortgage rates could, rather unexpectedly, improve housing supply.
The most dangerous defect in a new home is not always the crack that can be seen.
Kingston, Jamaica, 18 August 2026. A group of Ghanaian investors has taken the Nigerian government…