Kingston, Jamaica, 24 September 2026 The national median down payment for American homebuyers climbed to $27,100 in the second quarter of 2026,…

Across the Caribbean, property markets are moving at very different speeds. Yet from Kingston to Bridgetown, Georgetown to Nassau, one problem increasingly unites buyers: the amount paid for a house is not necessarily what that house will ultimately cost.

Dear Editor, Jamaica’s housing conversation too often begins and ends with the number of houses being built. We celebrate new schemes, new…

There is one statistic about Jamaica’s housing market that should stop homeowners, policymakers and insurers in their tracks. Only about 20 per…

Five or ten years can make an enormous difference to the deposit sitting between a renter and the front door of a first home

For many Jamaican families, the family home is among the most valuable assets they will ever own. But when the homeowner dies,…

A British study has exposed a growing fear about paying rent and mortgages after work ends. Jamaica may face an even sharper version of the same problem.

Private residential construction spending in the United States fell again in July, extending what has now become a sustained and measurable retreat…

Scotiabank’s parent company, the Bank of Nova Scotia, disclosed during its third-quarter earnings call on 25 August that mortgage impairments in the…

As the cost of a standard 30-year fixed mortgage in the United States approaches 7 per cent, a growing share of American…