Jamaicas property market hit roughly $99.3 billion in sales in 2025, growing through a Category 5 hurricane on the strength of rate cuts, NHT incentives and sustained foreign investment.

At the Vineyard Town key handover, the Prime Minister urged landowners and small builders to approach the NHT for financing and guidance on small housing schemes to boost supply.

Rents consuming nearly 58% of average take-home pay, a 150,000-unit housing deficit and a Bank of Jamaica rate that refuses to move — our July 2026 review maps the forces squeezing Jamaica’s renters and first-time buyers and asks what relief, if any, is on the horizon.

Kingston, Jamaica, 20 September 2026 The National Housing Trust has widened access to housing finance through a series of policy changes aimed…

The government’s first full fiscal year budget, tabled in May 2026, delivered on housing in ways that practitioners describe as the most…

Kingston, Jamaica, 30 June 2026Today marks the final deadline for National Housing Trust mortgagors still recovering from Hurricane Melissa to apply for…

The NHT will begin construction on 10,675 housing solutions in the current financial year, committing $50.3 billion as Jamaica tries to make inroads into a 150,000-unit housing deficit.

The government has committed billions through the NHT’s ROOFS programme and related initiatives in response to Hurricane Melissa’s housing destruction, with thousands of claims still being processed.

The NHT’s six-month mortgage moratorium for Hurricane Melissa-affected parishes is closing, with 36,000 accounts resuming payments and a final extension window open until 30 June.

Jamaica’s affordable housing gap remains stubbornly wide as private developers build for the upper market and NHT delivery struggles to match the scale of unmet demand.