As England prepares to register its private landlords, a growing arrangement involving property owners and social housing providers exposes a legal divide between ownership, management and responsibility. For Jamaica and the wider Caribbean, the question is just as important: who should answer for a home when the person collecting the income is not the person running it?

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The land belongs to the family. Everybody knows it. Grandfather worked it. His children built houses on it. The…

Jamaica’s proposed Shared Community Bill could allow unpaid maintenance fees to threaten property ownership, while introducing stronger rules for gated communities.

Central Kingston’s ageing housing stock needs urgent renewal, with 26 units completed or under construction and unresolved land ownership issues threatening wider regeneration.

Homes are still selling, but buyers are asking harder questions, sellers are being forced to reconsider their expectations, and the dream of…

Jamaicans are spending millions buying apartments without always knowing the financial condition of the buildings they are entering. Behind the security gates…

KINGSTON, Jamaica, 6 October 2026 There comes a point when protecting homeowners can begin to look suspiciously like redesigning the entire property…

KINGSTON, Jamaica, 6 October 2026 Britain has a housing problem. Its answer appears to be more rules, more regulators, more licences, more…

Jamaica is widening its response to the housing shortage, with affordability, land titling, informal settlements and infrastructure increasingly being addressed alongside new construction. The challenge is no longer simply building more homes, but making them accessible and sustainable.

Thousands of Jamaicans have received titles since a startling 2021 estimate revealed that nearly four in every 10 land parcels were unregistered. But behind the paperwork lies a much bigger question about wealth, informal settlements and who can realistically afford a legal home.