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

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

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.

A special retrospective spanning the full seventeen-year archive of the Caribbean Property & Investment Review — from the global financial crisis of 2009 through Guyana’s oil era and beyond, to July 2026.

Jamaica’s vacation rental sector enters the second half of 2026 with a long-overdue licensing framework advancing through the Ministry of Tourism, while Airbnb reports Caribbean as a standout global growth region, Tax Administration Jamaica intensifies enforcement, and housing affordability concerns push Parliament toward action.

Across apartments and houses, Jamaica’s rental market is operating with constrained availability and upward price pressure. For renters, the search for affordable accommodation has rarely been harder.

Kingston, Jamaica — 1 July 2026 The National Housing Trust has launched an Advance Deposit Loan for contributors aged 35…

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

Kingston, Jamaica, 28 June 2026Research published this year in the United States has found that 76 percent of American homebuyers…

Kingston, Jamaica, 28 June 2026American households spent the first quarter of 2026 extracting mortgage equity at record rates and encountering…

Kingston, Jamaica, 28 June 2026The United States is in the middle of a generational shift in how young people access…

Kingston, Jamaica, 26 June 2026 Jamaicans looking to rent a home for the first time are being confronted with a…

Kingston, Jamaica, 26 June 2026 Jamaica’s real estate development sector has been identified as a significant money laundering risk in…

For hundreds of thousands of Jamaicans living abroad, the question of returning home is never purely financial. It is emotional, generational, and deeply personal — and it is reshaping Jamaica’s property market from the ground up.

As Jamaica’s rental market grows, understanding the basics of tenancy law, from maintenance obligations to lawful eviction, matters more than ever for both renters and landlords.