As churches receive public money for restoration and campaign against landlessness, Jamaica must ask whether religious property could also help address the country’s deepening housing crisis.

The Dominican Republic’s construction sector has reversed a five-quarter slump and is now expanding at nearly 15 per cent year on year, driven by credit growth and tourism infrastructure. The turnaround offers both a comparison and a lesson for Jamaica.

The UK housing market is fracturing along regional lines in ways that the national average figure entirely obscures. The North West recorded annual asking price growth of 1.9 percent in August 2026 while London fell 3.1 percent, the capital’s largest annual August decline on record. Scotland, Wales, and the North East are all outperforming England’s south. The regional divergence reflects different affordability profiles, structural differences in housing stock, and the uneven impact of leasehold complications and investor withdrawal. For Jamaica, where regional differences in property market performance are similarly significant but far less documented, the UK data offers a framework for thinking about geography as a defining variable in property investment decisions.

Across the Caribbean, marinas, branded residences, vast resorts and public housing projects are transforming the landscape. The real question is who this new Caribbean is being built for.

For generations, migration has been part of the Jamaican economic story. Britain, the United States and Canada offered education, employment, citizenship, family…

Nearly 850,000 rental homes have disappeared from Britain’s private rented sector over the past decade. As Westminster debates rent freezes and ever-greater…

Britain’s latest rent freeze proposal is about far more than rents. It raises a much bigger question: how much government intervention is…

Jamaica’s property market has traditionally been analysed through familiar local factors such as housing supply, mortgage availability, employment, tourism and economic growth.…

Kingston, Jamaica, 17 July 2026 Real estate continues to be regarded as one of the world’s most trusted long term investments, and…

UK buy-to-let lending rose in Q1 2026, with landlords securing 58,272 new loans worth £10.8 billion, higher than a year earlier despite elevated mortgage rates and the implementation of the Renters’ Rights Act. The data signals stabilisation rather than recovery, in a market restructured around larger, more professional investors. For Jamaican diaspora investors navigating the new landscape, the nuance matters more than the headline.