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Jamaica is intensifying efforts to increase the number of registered land titles across the island, a move that could strengthen property…
Kingston, Jamaica, 22 July 2026 The average interest rate on a 30-year fixed purchase mortgage in the United States reached 6.74%…
Jamaica’s annual inflation rate hit 6.7 per cent in June 2026, its highest level in more than two years. For buyers, sellers, landlords and developers, the implications run deeper than the headline figure suggests.
Kingston, Jamaica, 22 July 2026 The United States housing market is producing a contradiction that has become familiar over the past…
OPINION
Encouraging offshore signals have revived talk of a Jamaican oil future. The honest answer is that the island is a long way from any such thing, and its land should be watched regardless.
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JAMAICA Diaspora
With remittances accounting for roughly 20 percent of Jamaica’s GDP and diaspora buyers providing critical demand at every price point from residential lots to luxury villas, the connection between overseas Jamaicans and the property market is structural, not incidental.
GLOBAL ANALYSIS
See MoreWith approved and pending building applications valued at nearly $390 billion at year-end 2025, Jamaica’s development pipeline tells a story of sustained confidence that the post-Melissa construction downturn does not fully capture.
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Kingston, Jamaica, 16 July 2026 The Government says work is continuing to acquire land needed…
Cash-rich Chinese buyers are reshaping Harare’s high-end housing market. It is a story about capital seeking safety, and a caution about who gets priced out.
A London-listed explorer has topped up its working capital while it hunts for a partner to drill off Jamaica’s south coast, keeping the island’s long oil question alive for another season.
On a multi-hazard island, seismic risk quietly sets the terms of home insurance and the standards to which houses should be built. Here is how it works, and why it matters to owners.
Encouraging offshore signals have revived talk of a Jamaican oil future. The honest answer is that the island is a long way from any such thing, and its land should be watched regardless.
Guyana has become one of the world’s fastest-growing economies on the back of offshore oil. Jamaica cannot copy it, but the lessons for land, wealth and housing are real.
Family & Relations
For years, many property owners in Jamaica enjoyed a market that seemed almost unstoppable.Homes attracted…
