Browsing: NHT Jamaica

Investment is up, yet the housing deficit endures. An honest look at whether the NHT’s structure, designed in the 1970s, still fits the Jamaica of today, and how it might evolve.

All eligible NHT contributors can now take their annual refund in cash, ending a split that favoured public sector workers. For would-be buyers, it is a quiet boost toward a deposit.

The NHT is expanding its Construction Scholarship from ten awards to fifty, investing in the engineers, architects and planners Jamaica will need to build its way out of a housing deficit.

While the world panics over recession talk and tech revolutions, Jamaica’s real estate sector is building its own future —…

In recent years, owning a home in Jamaica has often felt like a privilege reserved for the few. High construction…

A common criticism says the NHT does not build enough houses. But the law that created it framed it as a financier, not a builder. The real question is whether that founding purpose still fits.

Real estate has always been more than transactions on paper. In Jamaica, it is a story carved into limestone, etched…

The Government’s repeated drawdowns from the NHT raise a hard question: should money meant for housing balance the national budget? A look at both sides of a long-running tension.

The NHT spent $106 million maintaining an unsold Trelawny estate by 2019, a concrete look at what idle public assets cost the contributors who fund them, and a lesson in stewardship.

A historic Trelawny estate the NHT has tried to sell since 2015 is back on the market, a long-running reminder of what happens when contributor funds sit in a non-performing asset.