Browsing: NHT housing

It seems every week there’s a fresh headline from abroad sounding the alarm about a potential housing market crash. Doom…

With NHT loan limit increases just weeks away, Jamaica’s housing market enters June with rising pre-emptive demand, continued construction momentum, and steady BOJ patience.

Jamaica’s housing sector digests the budget’s NHT reforms as construction pipelines stay active, diaspora interest grows, and the BOJ holds rates at 7% into April.

PM Holness’s budget announces NHT loan limits raised to J$7.5m and a new 5% rate band, reshaping Jamaica’s affordable housing landscape for the 2023/24 fiscal year.

As BOJ holds rates at 7% and inflation edges lower, Jamaica’s NHT becomes the indispensable lifeline for first-time buyers locked out of commercial mortgage markets.

Jamaica’s housing market closes 2022 and enters 2023 with strong demand, but rising commercial mortgage rates and construction cost pressures are testing affordability.

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