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Analysis
With approved and pending building applications valued at nearly $390 billion at year-end 2025, Jamaica’s development pipeline tells a story of sustained confidence that the post-Melissa construction downturn does not fully capture.
More than 32,000 expired and 10,500 cancelled listings sit behind the active surface of Jamaica’s MLS. Understanding why they failed to sell is one of the most important — and underreported — stories in the market.
When more than half of Jamaica’s listed residential lots are already under offer or contract, that is not a coincidence. It is a signal. A deep dive into MLS absorption rates and what they tell us about genuine market demand.
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Kingston, Jamaica, 29 June 2026Bankrate’s mortgage rate variability index, a measure of how much loan offers differ from one lender to the…
Kingston, Jamaica, 28 June 2026American market analysts are drawing attention to an unusual dynamic in the US housing market: the median price…
Kingston, Jamaica, 28 June 2026The United States government has declared June National Homeownership Month, and the White House’s proclamation, issued mid-June, outlined…
Kingston, Jamaica, 28 June 2026Research published this year in the United States has found that 76 percent of American homebuyers say they…
Kingston, Jamaica, 28 June 2026Homes near public transit in the United States save their occupants more than $8,000 annually in transportation costs,…
Kingston, Jamaica, 28 June 2026Global commercial real estate lending reached an all-time high in April 2026, according to data from JLL, the…
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