Author: Jamaica Homes News

Kingston, Jamaica, 16 July 2026 The Government says work is continuing to acquire land needed for the proposed Port Antonio Bypass, as preparations advance on one of eastern Jamaica’s largest planned transport infrastructure projects. Officials say the process includes ongoing consultations with affected landowners to ensure that compensation is handled fairly and that property rights are protected. Speaking during the opening of the rehabilitated Caenwood Road in Portland under the Shared Prosperity Through Accelerated Improvement to our Road Network, SPARK, programme, the Ministry with responsibility for Works said the bypass project has reached approximately six per cent completion, with much…

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.

Jamaica recorded 549 seismic events in 2025. Most went unfelt, but the figure is a reminder that the island builds, buys and insures on shaking ground.

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.

Across eleven years and seventeen IMF publications, a portrait of Jamaica emerges that is far more complex than either its critics or its cheerleaders allow. This is what the full archive actually reveals — about the economy, the property market, and the country’s future.

A complete analysis of Jamaica’s nineteen-month BOJ Payment System Data Bulletin series, June 2024 to December 2025. JAMCLEAR-RTGS volumes reflected sustained interbank activity, POS transactions grew as card adoption accelerated, and cheque usage declined structurally — together tracing the arc of Jamaica’s payment modernisation programme.

A complete analysis of Jamaica’s seventeen-month BOJ ABM Performance Bulletin series, December 2024 to April 2026. Hurricane Melissa triggered seven consecutive months of uptime non-compliance, the permanent loss of eleven Scotia Bank machines, and a 137-machine fleet refresh programme — the largest in the series. Rural uptime finally recovered above 95% in April 2026.

A complete analysis of Jamaica’s seventeen-month Bank of Jamaica Remittance Bulletin series, from December 2024 through April 2026. Fiscal 2025/26 became the first year to exceed US$3 billion in diaspora inflows, with corridor trends, regional benchmarks and housing market implications examined across the full dataset.

Housing Jamaica Today: Crisis, Aspiration and the Question of Home The years since 2020 have placed Jamaica’s housing challenge in sharp relief. A global pandemic reshaped where people wanted to live and how they worked. Prices climbed to levels that challenged even the aspirations of the formally employed. Climate risk sharpened. And the foundational questions — who can afford a home, whose tenure is secure, who owns Jamaica’s land — remained as urgent as ever, even as the island’s economy continued its long recovery and its property market caught international attention. The Pandemic Year: Dislocation and Unexpected Demand When Jamaica…

Jamaica’s minimum wage rises to $17,000 per week from July 1, 2026. For landlords, renters, and the broader housing market, the change has layered implications worth understanding.

From a hurricane-battered island clawing its way back to a landmark lawsuit over cannabis royalties, 2026 has tested every facet of the Marley inheritance. Today, on a street named for the island he never stopped singing about, a seven-foot statue of the man is unveiled in Liverpool — and the question is not whether the music endures, but what it is being asked to carry.

Kingston, Jamaica, 14 July 2026 The Urban Development Corporation has confirmed that plans are progressing for one of Jamaica’s largest public housing programmes in decades, with more than 20,000 homes proposed across Kingston, St. Catherine, St. Elizabeth and St. Ann. The initiative forms part of the Government’s wider housing and post Hurricane Melissa reconstruction strategy and is expected to gather pace following the establishment of the National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority. According to the Corporation, approximately half of the proposed homes will be built in southwest Jamaica, an area that suffered extensive damage during Hurricane Melissa. Officials say the programme…