A Jamaican couple discovers that an affordable home does not necessarily mean affordable living as bills for electricity, water, groceries and maintenance pile up.

Today’s cartoon: Sean’s house fund is being shaken empty at the market. With inflation at 8.6 per cent, food up 12.4 per cent and a water rate application pending, saving for a home just got harder.

Today’s cartoon: the house is built, but there is nowhere to put it. The Prime Minister wants owners of idle land, including Jamaicans abroad, to offer it for social housing. Here is why land is the real bottleneck.

Jamaica needs an estimated 150,000 more homes. The Government has promised 70,000 housing solutions, but the NHT has completed about 21,000 homes in a decade, and Hurricane Melissa has since reset the scale of the problem. Here is what the numbers show.

Britain’s struggle to turn approved developments into completed homes offers a warning for Jamaica, where construction ambitions, infrastructure demands and the cost of building must increasingly be considered together.

From billion-dollar apartments overlooking Kingston Harbour to families being moved from vulnerable communities, a succession of housing announcements is exposing a deeper question about Jamaica’s future: Is the country simply building more properties, or creating places where ordinary Jamaicans can afford to belong?

KINGSTON, Jamaica — There is a troubling question hanging over Jamaica’s property market. As more homes are advertised in US dollars, luxury…

As UK homes sell below asking prices, Jamaica’s property market raises questions about negotiation, overpricing and opportunities for buyers.

What does a J$35 million home really cost in Jamaica? Explore deposits, legal fees, NHT funding, mortgage interest, maintenance and lifetime housing expenditure.

After struggling to sell his J$42 million house in Jamaica, Sean flies to Britain convinced that property investment overseas offers better opportunities.…