The collapse of China’s largest property empire offers a stark warning about debt, weak oversight and the risks carried by ordinary homebuyers

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

A series of property disputes involving adverse possession, contested declarations and claims of fraud has renewed concern about the security of landownership…

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

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

Property is rarely just concrete, steel and a handsome view. It is debt, risk, regulation, ambition and, occasionally, an optimistically constructed swing…

For generations, migration has been part of the Jamaican economic story. Britain, the United States and Canada offered education, employment, citizenship, family…

Fraud prevention is essential. But repeatedly sending genuine overseas clients to notaries is not the only way to achieve it. Jamaica needs a property system that is just as rigorous, but far more intelligent.

The Caribbean real estate market is valued at US$1.87 trillion and growing, yet Caribbean developers continue to face persistent difficulty securing viable development financing. The gap between market scale and available capital is one of the region’s most significant structural challenges and a direct contributor to housing undersupply across Jamaica and the wider Caribbean.

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