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The UDC has announced plans to build more than 20,000 homes across Jamaica, with approximately half targeted at southwest Jamaica for post-Melissa reconstruction. In St Elizabeth, property owners are not yet celebrating. They are asking what UDC land acquisition means for what they already own, and forming legal working groups to find out.
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Governor-General Sir Patrick Allen has urged Jamaicans to transform the country’s celebrated resilience into collective action as communities…
Jamaica’s bauxite and alumina export earnings are projected to rebound 24 per cent to US$760 million in 2026, despite a steep first-quarter production decline. The recovery in this key industrial sector has direct implications for construction materials supply, rural property investment, and the country’s economic momentum heading into the second half of the year.
Hospitals and health centres are rarely regarded as architectural triumphs. Yet these are the buildings we depend upon at our most…
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See MoreFrom geopolitical tensions and energy prices to global shipping routes and climate risk, Jamaica’s property market is being shaped by forces well beyond the island’s borders. Understanding them is no longer optional for buyers, sellers or developers.
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Jamaica has the money and the housing pipeline. What it is running short of is builders. A Senate debate has put the construction skills crisis on the record, and the consequences for housing delivery and property prices are real.
Kingston, Jamaica, 22 July 2026 Spain has proposed a radical policy response to its housing…
The Trelawny Municipal Corporation has vowed to take land grabbers to court after notices and stop orders failed to halt illegal development on land earmarked for public infrastructure. The case has implications for planning enforcement across Jamaica.
Kingston, Jamaica, 22 July 2026 International geopolitical instability is channelling wealthy buyers into European property…
The Caribbean real estate market is valued at US$1.87 trillion and growing, yet Caribbean developers continue to face persistent difficulty securing viable development financing. The gap between market scale and available capital is one of the region’s most significant structural challenges and a direct contributor to housing undersupply across Jamaica and the wider Caribbean.
