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Jamaica does not suffer from a shortage of intelligence, ambition or qualified people. It suffers, too often, from something considerably…
Nearly 850,000 rental homes have disappeared from Britain’s private rented sector over the past decade. As Westminster debates rent freezes…
Jamaica is intensifying efforts to increase the number of registered land titles across the island, a move that could strengthen…
The first quarter of 2026 carried the particular emotional weight of a milestone approached. Jamaica’s winter tourism season was tracking…
Kingston, Jamaica, 16 July 2026 The Government says work is continuing to acquire land needed for the proposed Port Antonio…
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.
From the North-South Highway’s contested toll concessions to the long-established Chinese-Jamaican community and the newer mainland business wave, Jamaican feelings about Chinese investment defy any simple answer.
Jamaica’s housing sector has entered the second half of the year with a mix of encouraging opportunities and emerging challenges,…
Rents consuming nearly 58% of average take-home pay, a 150,000-unit housing deficit and a Bank of Jamaica rate that refuses to move — our July 2026 review maps the forces squeezing Jamaica’s renters and first-time buyers and asks what relief, if any, is on the horizon.
Kingston, Jamaica, 5 July 2026 The American housing market in the summer of 2026 occupies a peculiar position: prices are…
Jamaica is increasingly on the radar of international property investors and diaspora buyers seeking a foothold in one of the…
With remittances accounting for roughly 20 percent of Jamaica’s GDP and diaspora buyers providing critical demand at every price point from residential lots to luxury villas, the connection between overseas Jamaicans and the property market is structural, not incidental.
From the apartment-dense corridors of St Andrew to the land-rich parishes of St Elizabeth and the resort-driven markets of St Ann and St James, Jamaica’s property market is not one story. It is fourteen.
With nearly three-quarters of Jamaica’s remittances sourced from the United States and over a million Jamaicans living there, shifts in US immigration enforcement are not just a human story. They are a property market story.
Kingston, Jamaica, 30 June 2026. Forty-three million people are working remotely while living outside their home countries. Their average stay…