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.
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.
There is a curious silence hanging over Jamaica’s property market.Not the silence of inactivity. Not the silence of recession. Not…
Hurricane Melissa, a shrinking economy, global conflict, and a housing crisis have transformed Jamaica’s real estate market. The result is…
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…
