housing development

Kingston, Jamaica, 18 August 2026. Seprod Limited, the manufacturing group behind household brands such as Serge, Supligen, Busta and Betty,…

Jamaica’s property news this week was less concerned with polished kitchens and infinity pools than with something considerably more fundamental,…

The Prime Minister’s call for greater efficiency across Jamaica’s public service was not presented as a real estate policy. Yet…

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.

Every bag of cement, every sheet of steel, every imported appliance now carries the shadow of global trade conflict. For Jamaica’s construction sector and the buyers waiting for new homes, the tariff era has real consequences.

With residential lots showing the highest absorption rate of any property category in Jamaica and development land attracting both local and diaspora investors, the land market is one of the most telling indicators of where Jamaica’s property sector is heading.

The NHT will begin construction on 10,675 housing solutions in the current financial year, committing $50.3 billion as Jamaica tries to make inroads into a 150,000-unit housing deficit.

A new 34-unit apartment project in Montego Bay reflects the growing residential developer interest in St James as the city’s economy continues to expand beyond tourism.

An $9-billion NHT-backed housing development in St Thomas brings both scale and resilience requirements, as Jamaica tries to rebuild with stronger homes than the ones Melissa destroyed.

Government intervention in Jamaica’s cement market reflects how seriously the state is treating housing delivery as an economic and social priority.

Kingston, Jamaica, 26 June 2026A new mid year housing market update from Redfin and the National Association of Realtors paints…

As Jamaica’s hurricane relief programme moves forward, containerised housing units are providing temporary shelter for families displaced by Hurricane Melissa, while raising longer term questions about safe land use.

As Jamaica’s rental market grows, understanding the basics of tenancy law, from maintenance obligations to lawful eviction, matters more than ever for both renters and landlords.

Kingston, Jamaica, 24 June 2026Total regulatory costs tied to building a typical single family home in the United States now…

Jamaica’s Urban Development Corporation has outlined plans for over 1,200 new homes, inland township rebuilding and climate-resilient construction standards as the country moves from recovery to transformation.