Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Hellshire View, the Shooters Hill scheme near Portmore promoted as “623 housing solutions” with first units expected by November 2023, has been placed in receivership. The project lender appointed a receiver and notified the Housing Agency of Jamaica, a partner in the scheme, by letter on October 9. Two-bedroom detached houses are still listed from J$17.2 million and still marked as under construction, after delays blamed on difficult rock, extra excavation and retaining-wall costs.
The HAJ says agreed prices will be honoured for buyers who signed contracts and paid deposits, and receivership does not automatically mean cancellation. But the receiver’s mandate, a funded construction timetable and a new handover date have not been made public. For families who paid deposits and missed their handover dates, the question remains: when does a promised home become a key in the door?
In inked watercolour on a warm orange-red wash, a flustered man in a suit and hard hat tumbles backwards over a rolling barrel labelled “RECEIVERSHIP”, still clutching a paper marked “DUE NOV 2023”. Behind him, bare concrete house frames sit on jagged rock under a sign reading “623 HOMES PROMISED”, while weary Jamaican buyers look on above a caption strip: “STILL WAITING”.
Read more: Hellshire View Placed in Receivership as Buyers Await Homes
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