Housing
News, analysis and practical guidance on housing in Jamaica. Explore affordability, housing policy, new developments, social housing, construction, homeownership, renting and the issues shaping how Jamaicans find and secure a place to live.
Santander has launched a mortgage in the United Kingdom that requires first-time buyers to put down as little as two…
The investment is not charity alone. It is an attempt to repair the market on which the mortgage business depends.
There is an argument gaining attention in the United States that higher mortgage rates could, rather unexpectedly, improve housing supply.
Kingston, Jamaica, 18 August 2026. Seprod Limited, the manufacturing group behind household brands such as Serge, Supligen, Busta and Betty,…
Two of America’s most celebrated pandemic-era property markets — Florida and Texas — have reversed course and are now leading…
Andy Burnham became UK Prime Minister on 20 July 2026, immediately raising the prospect of rent controls for England—the first sitting Prime Minister to do so. Against that political backdrop, the housing market data for the past month has shown prices barely growing at £299,253, mortgage rates remaining elevated amid global uncertainty, rents hitting record highs in six of nine UK regions despite slowing nationally, and the new administration launching a VAT consultation on social housing land. For Jamaican diaspora investors and housing policymakers, the convergence of political change and market fragility in Britain carries direct and immediate relevance.
New research from Crisis and Citizens Advice has found that fewer than two in every hundred private rental properties listed in Britain are now affordable for people receiving housing benefit. With more than 100 renters a day seeking help, foodbank referrals up 80%, and the October Budget approaching as the last realistic opportunity to act, the findings expose a structural failure in the link between state support and the real cost of housing. The dynamics have direct resonance for Jamaica, where no equivalent support mechanism exists and where the gap between working incomes and housing costs is quietly widening.
Remote work is widening the housing search for some Jamaicans, allowing buyers and renters to consider communities beyond the traditional…
Kingston, Jamaica, 7 August 2026 The American housing market has fractured into two entirely different experiences, and which one you…
Kingston, Jamaica, 5 August 2026 Global institutional investment in residential real estate rose nine per cent in the first half…
UK house prices rose 2.7 percent annually to £271,000 in the twelve months to May 2026, according to ONS data, while Rightmove’s July asking price index recorded the largest July fall in fourteen years. Mortgage rate volatility, reduced transaction volumes, and growing buyer choice are shaping a market in deliberate recalibration. For Jamaican diaspora investors with UK holdings, and for Jamaica’s domestic market observers, the data carries specific practical lessons.
Jamaica’s post-Hurricane Melissa housing recovery is facing a major obstacle as unresolved land ownership issues continue to delay the delivery…
Nearly 850,000 rental homes have disappeared from Britain’s private rented sector over the past decade. As Westminster debates rent freezes…
Kingston, Jamaica, 22 July 2026 The United States housing market is producing a contradiction that has become familiar over the…
Jamaica has the money and the housing pipeline. What it is running short of is builders. A Senate debate has put the construction skills crisis on the record, and the consequences for housing delivery and property prices are real.