Kingston, Jamaica, 30 August 2026. TSB and several other British lenders raised their fixed mortgage…

Nationwide Building Society closed out last year by cutting mortgage rates to their lowest levels…

Three major British lenders, Nationwide, Virgin Money, and Santander, raised their mortgage rates within days…

JMMB Bank customers who use their Visa debit cards for international purchases will face a…

The National Housing Trust has confirmed its peril insurance premium will hold for another year. JN Bank has a new managing director. And Jamaica is beginning to move away from large-value Jamaican dollar cheques. Individually each development is modest. Together they describe a property and mortgage market in the middle of an institutional transition.

For every US dollar Jamaica earned from merchandise exports in 2025, it spent approximately US$4.55 on imports. Tourism and remittances keep the wider structure standing. But behind the attractive façade is an economy increasingly dependent on things made somewhere else.