The UK Social Housing Regulation Act 2023 received Royal Assent, introducing Awaab’s Law, which forces social landlords to fix hazardous conditions within strict timelines. Named after a two-year-old child who died from mould exposure his parents had repeatedly reported, the legislation carries profound lessons for housing accountability in Jamaica and across the Caribbean.

Kingston, Jamaica — 24 July 2023 The Administrator General’s Department is managing over $50 billion in property belonging to the estates of…

If you’re looking to get a building loan in Jamaica, here are the general steps people often follow: Choose a Lender: This…

The Episcopal Diocese of Newark is selling its Mulberry Street headquarters to the New Jersey Performing Arts Center for $3.85 million and moving into St Peter’s, a closed church it already owns in Livingston.

Some Jamaican properties are held on a long leasehold basis with an annual ground rent payable to a freeholder or head lessor who is separate from the occupying owner. When ground rent goes unpaid, or when the terms of the head lease are not observed, the freeholder may have the right to forfeit the lease — a potentially catastrophic outcome for an occupying owner who may be unaware that a ground rent liability even exists.

A New Hampshire executive pastor was jailed for 18 months after taking about US$130,000 from Journey Baptist Church over three years through unauthorised withdrawals and church credit card purchases to pay gambling debts.

Kingston, Jamaica — 19 July 2023 For family-owned businesses in Jamaica, estate planning is not a peripheral concern. It is the difference…

Anglican dioceses across the Eastern Caribbean are leasing church land for homes, businesses and farming, from pepper fields in Nevis to rental buildings in Antigua, to pay for restoring churches, some of them centuries old.

St Philip’s Anglican Church at Spring Creek in western Victoria, built in 1894 in memory of a squatter’s wife, sold at auction for $145,000 to a single bidder despite about 60 people attending.

The National Housing Trust is reminding contributors who earn $15,000 or less a week that they may qualify for a non-repayable grant of up to $3.5 million towards buying land, a house or building a home.