housing deficit
Kingston, Jamaica — 1 December 2020 Jamaica’s property market entered 2020 with momentum. Transaction volumes were healthy. NHT loan demand…
In 2020 some $55 billion in housing was planned for St Catherine, the NHT leading. A snapshot of Jamaica’s supply strategy, and the perennial gap between a pipeline and a finished home.
Kingston, Jamaica — 1 September 2019 Catherine Estates in Bernard Lodge, St Catherine, is to be revisited and transformed into…
A 2019 groundbreaking in St Catherine marked the NHT’s record build-out in the parish that became Jamaica’s engine of housing supply, raising questions of infrastructure and quality.
Kingston, Jamaica — 1 June 2019 The government has increased the National Housing Trust’s individual loan limit from five and…
Kingston, Jamaica — 1 September 2016 The cost of building a home in Jamaica has risen consistently over the past…
Kingston, Jamaica — 1 June 2016 Jamaica’s property market expanded strongly in 2015, with house prices rising by an estimated…
Kingston, Jamaica — 1 January 2014 Residents from communities across Jamaica received registered land titles from the Housing Agency of…
Kingston, Jamaica — 27 February 2013 Homeownership in Jamaica has become increasingly unaffordable for those on middle and low incomes,…
Kingston, Jamaica — 1 March 2012 Jamaica’s economy has contracted for the fourth time in five years. GDP growth has…
Kingston, Jamaica — 1 September 2008 The National Housing Development Corporation, which has operated as the government’s principal housing development…
Kingston, Jamaica — 1 June 2007 Family land, the cultural and legal practice by which land is held collectively by…
Kingston, Jamaica — 1 March 2007 Jamaica’s housing market is in the midst of one of its strongest expansions in…
Kingston, Jamaica — 1 April 2006 In 2006, Jamaica’s construction sector was halted in its tracks by the recall of…
Kingston, Jamaica — 1 September 2005 Jamaica’s housing sector delivered more than forty thousand homes in the decade between 2000…