Publication date: 5 February 2023 | Covering: January 2023 Monthly Briefing BOJ overnight rate holds at 7.00 per cent; sustained restriction entering…

Inflation above 10%, a war in Ukraine that sent commodity prices soaring, and a rate-tightening cycle that has fundamentally changed the mortgage mathematics: Jamaica’s housing market begins 2023 taking stock of a bruising year and looking for reasons to believe the worst is over.

Publication date: 5 January 2023 | Covering: December 2022 Monthly Briefing BOJ closes 2022 at 7.00 per cent; most restrictive policy rate…

Publication date: 5 December 2022 | Covering: November 2022 Monthly Briefing BOJ raises overnight rate to 7.00 per cent in November; highest…

Publication date: 5 November 2022 | Covering: October 2022 Monthly Briefing US Federal Reserve raises to 3.75–4.00 per cent on November 2…

Rate hikes, commodity prices at multi-decade highs, and the UK’s mortgage market crisis as a cautionary tale: Jamaica’s housing market in October 2022 is bearing the full weight of a global inflation shock that has changed the economics of borrowing, building and buying.

Publication date: 5 October 2022 | Covering: September 2022 Monthly Briefing US Federal Reserve raises to 3.00–3.25 per cent on September 21;…

Publication date: 5 September 2022 | Covering: August 2022 Monthly Briefing US Fed at 2.25–2.50 per cent after July 27 hike; Powell’s…

Publication date: 5 August 2022 | Covering: July 2022 Monthly Briefing US Federal Reserve raises to 2.25–2.50 per cent on July 27…

Russia’s war in Ukraine, global inflation at multi-decade highs, and a BOJ rate cycle that is compressing mortgage qualification: Jamaica’s housing market in July 2022 is absorbing shocks from every direction simultaneously.