From provocative property advertising to research on attractiveness and major misconduct cases, a global investigation asks what real estate agents are really expected to sell, and where Jamaica should draw the line.

Is Jamaica heading for a housing crash? New international forecasts offer perspective as local buyers confront rising property prices and affordability pressures.Editorial note: The Fannie Mae forecasts concern the United States. Jamaica-specific conclusions are presented as analysis, not as predictions derived from those forecasts. The article follows the supplied Jamaica Homes News editorial brief, with local housing supply and affordability placed at its centre.

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New homes, contested land, rising rents and billions in pension savings made this a revealing week for Jamaican property. Beneath the individual headlines was one persistent problem: demand for secure, affordable housing is running considerably faster than the country can supply it.

The Church of Christian Compassion in West Philadelphia opened Compassion Senior Living, a $20 million, 38-apartment building where one-bedroom rents range from $900 to $1,300 depending on income.

Trinity Uniting Church in North Albury has sold for $1.1 million to the dentist next door, after seven religious groups and three developers showed interest in the 2,750-square-metre site on Mate Street.

A Beauce entrepreneur bought two rural Quebec churches, one for about $50,000, planning about 20 short-term rental units in one and housing for workers in the other, while warning that such projects need deep pockets.

A Spokane church sold its 1905 downtown building after its insurance quote tripled from $16,000 to $48,000 a year; as renters, it now pays about $3,000, part of a wider rise in church building costs.

Relocating Coopers Pen residents helps 99 people. A Gleaner editorial argues Jamaica’s real squatting crisis, up to a third of the population, needs the kind of cross-party commitment no government has sustained in 50 years.

St Vincent’s Church in Sunday’s Well, Cork, a 170-year-old protected Gothic church on 0.58 acres, is back on the market at €375,000, half its 2018 price, after University College Cork pulled out of a deal.