mortgages

Jamaicans hoping that borrowing costs will tumble over the coming months may need to temper their expectations, as a fresh…

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.

Jamaica’s banks are not imploding. Quite the opposite. They are well capitalised, liquid and profitable. But amid rising fees, customer frustration and tougher regulatory scrutiny, an older question has returned in a distinctly Jamaican form. Should faith and values have any place in the way financial institutions behave?

Jamaica has billions of dollars committed to housing and tens of thousands of homes somewhere in the development pipeline. But…

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.

Homes will be more expensive, but value will depend increasingly on resilience, access, title and whether ordinary Jamaicans can still afford to live in them

From Bernard Lodge to Montego Bay, the week revealed a property market expanding under pressure from finance, flooding, infrastructure gaps and unresolved land occupation

For Jamaicans hoping to buy a home in 2026, the final months of the year may offer something increasingly rare:…

Nationwide, Britain’s largest building society, is cutting mortgage rates across a range of products to offer what it calls the…

Kingston, Jamaica, 30 August 2026. TSB and several other British lenders raised their fixed mortgage rates earlier this year in…

Nationwide Building Society closed out last year by cutting mortgage rates to their lowest levels since September 2022, with brokers…

Three major British lenders, Nationwide, Virgin Money, and Santander, raised their mortgage rates within days of each other earlier this…

Five major British lenders, including HSBC, Santander, TSB, NatWest, and Principality Building Society, cut mortgage rates within days of one…

For the first time since October 2023, the cheapest tracker mortgages in Britain fell below the cheapest fixed rate deals…

Santander cut its UK mortgage rates to as low as 3.55 per cent last year in a move brokers linked…