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Bishop Joseph Gontrand Décoste of Jérémie told Aid to the Church in Need that gangs have forced the closure of 40 parishes in Port-au-Prince and 25 more elsewhere, while Catholic schools have been burned or turned into gang bases.

Kingston, Jamaica, 5 August 2026 Global institutional investment in residential real estate rose nine per cent in the first half…

Kingston, Jamaica, 5 August 2026 While London’s property market falls and England’s overall price growth remains subdued, Northern Ireland has…

Kingston, Jamaica, 4 August 2026 The global luxury property market has spawned an industry worth $67 billion that barely existed…

Saudi Arabia remains one of the world’s busiest real estate markets, with office towers, new communities and vast infrastructure projects…

Britain’s housing market is being compressed from two directions. Rising oil prices associated with the Iran conflict are intensifying inflationary…

UK private rents rose 3.3 percent in the year to June 2026, reaching £1,388 per month on average, as the market cooled from its 2023 peak but remained structurally undersupplied by 25 percent relative to pre-pandemic levels. The data confirms that slower rent growth is not the same as improved affordability. For Jamaica, where equivalent rental data does not exist, the UK’s comprehensive market intelligence points to what is possible when housing policy is built on evidence.

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.

American homebuilders pulled back sharply in July, starting construction on 12.4 per cent fewer homes than in June and missing…

A Melissa-damaged Montego Bay resort is reopening in 2028 under Marriott’s flagship brand instead of simply being repaired, part of a much larger regional all-inclusive expansion push.

Nearly 850,000 rental homes have disappeared from Britain’s private rented sector over the past decade. As Westminster debates rent freezes…

The UK government has delivered only 23 percent of its 1.5 million homes target in the first twenty months of Parliament, with annual completions running well below the level required. Planning reform, construction costs, and mortgage market volatility are all contributing to the shortfall. Jamaica, which operates without a national housebuilding target and has no systematic measure of its own supply deficit, should take careful note of what happens when housing ambition outpaces delivery.

Kingston, Jamaica, 22 July 2026 UK asking prices fell 1% in July 2026 to an average of £372,359, the largest…

Kingston, Jamaica, 22 July 2026 Spain has proposed a radical policy response to its housing affordability crisis: a 100% tax…

Kingston, Jamaica, 22 July 2026 International geopolitical instability is channelling wealthy buyers into European property markets with increasing force in…