housing market
The artificial intelligence boom has produced a new and particular kind of property pressure in the United States. In the…
Private residential construction spending in the United States fell again in July, extending what has now become a sustained and…
Scotiabank Flags Rising Mortgage Stress in the Caribbean — and Plans to Take Full Control in Jamaica
Scotiabank’s parent company, the Bank of Nova Scotia, disclosed during its third-quarter earnings call on 25 August that mortgage impairments…
As the cost of a standard 30-year fixed mortgage in the United States approaches 7 per cent, a growing share…
Kingston, Jamaica, 2 September 2026 Single-family home construction in the United States declined in nearly every geographic category in the…
Kingston, Jamaica, 26 August 2026 American mortgage rates climbed again this week, reaching their highest level in three weeks after…
The collapse of China’s largest property empire offers a stark warning about debt, weak oversight and the risks carried by ordinary homebuyers
Two of America’s most celebrated pandemic-era property markets — Florida and Texas — have reversed course and are now leading…
The UK housing market is fracturing along regional lines in ways that the national average figure entirely obscures. The North West recorded annual asking price growth of 1.9 percent in August 2026 while London fell 3.1 percent, the capital’s largest annual August decline on record. Scotland, Wales, and the North East are all outperforming England’s south. The regional divergence reflects different affordability profiles, structural differences in housing stock, and the uneven impact of leasehold complications and investor withdrawal. For Jamaica, where regional differences in property market performance are similarly significant but far less documented, the UK data offers a framework for thinking about geography as a defining variable in property investment decisions.
The White House signalled this week that President Trump is considering a significant change to how home sale profits are…
After five consecutive weekly increases that pushed the 30-year fixed mortgage rate to 6.91 per cent — its highest level…
Kingston, Jamaica, 12 August 2026 San Francisco has reclaimed a title it briefly looked like it might have lost for…
Andy Burnham became UK Prime Minister on 20 July 2026, immediately raising the prospect of rent controls for England—the first sitting Prime Minister to do so. Against that political backdrop, the housing market data for the past month has shown prices barely growing at £299,253, mortgage rates remaining elevated amid global uncertainty, rents hitting record highs in six of nine UK regions despite slowing nationally, and the new administration launching a VAT consultation on social housing land. For Jamaican diaspora investors and housing policymakers, the convergence of political change and market fragility in Britain carries direct and immediate relevance.
Kingston, Jamaica, 12 August 2026 The American property market delivered another instalment of its defining 2026 paradox on Tuesday: sales…
Sales of new build homes in London fell 37 percent in the first half of 2026 compared with the same period a year earlier, according to property consultancy Molior. A record 4,629 new builds worth an estimated £3.5 billion remain unsold, the highest level ever recorded. British owner-occupiers have almost entirely withdrawn, leasehold concerns are deterring buyers, and international investor demand that once sustained the market has faded. For Jamaican developers and investors watching the premium property sector, the London data is both a warning and an illustration of what happens when new build supply outpaces real buyer demand.