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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.

England’s new Renters’ Rights regime is about to make landlord registration a much bigger part of renting. But what happens…

The demolition of homes at Cooper’s Pen in Trelawny has reopened a difficult question that sits beneath Jamaica’s housing debate:…

A British study has exposed a growing fear about paying rent and mortgages after work ends. Jamaica may face an even sharper version of the same problem.

Santander has launched a mortgage in the United Kingdom that requires first-time buyers to put down as little as two…

Jamaica’s modest pension payments and rising housing costs are creating a retirement problem that few families have properly calculated

Jamaica should stop treating its most sought-after high schools as names on a league table and start seeing the housing, transport and child-safety questions gathered around their gates.

Andy Burnham became UK Prime Minister on 20 July 2026, immediately raising the prospect of rent controls for England—the first sitting Prime Minister to do so. Against that political backdrop, the housing market data for the past month has shown prices barely growing at £299,253, mortgage rates remaining elevated amid global uncertainty, rents hitting record highs in six of nine UK regions despite slowing nationally, and the new administration launching a VAT consultation on social housing land. For Jamaican diaspora investors and housing policymakers, the convergence of political change and market fragility in Britain carries direct and immediate relevance.

Kingston, Jamaica, 12 August 2026 The American property market delivered another instalment of its defining 2026 paradox on Tuesday: sales…

Property is rarely just concrete, steel and a handsome view. It is debt, risk, regulation, ambition and, occasionally, an optimistically…

Scammers are renting Airbnb properties legitimately, then secretly re-listing them online without the owner’s knowledge. One of four distinct property fraud schemes RAJ has had to warn Jamaicans about in 2026 alone.

Scammers are renting Airbnb properties legitimately, then secretly re-listing them online without the owner’s knowledge. One of four distinct property fraud schemes RAJ has had to warn Jamaicans about in 2026 alone.

Ask ten Jamaicans and there may be ten different answers. For one, it is a secure job, a family and…

Jamaica does not simply have a fertility problem. It has a crisis of affordability, confidence and stability – and no…

Jamaica’s declining birth rate has generated an important but difficult national conversation—one involving relationships, housing, employment, migration, gender and the…