July 2025

There’s a quiet revolution happening in Jamaica’s real estate market—and it might just flip everything you thought you knew about homeownership on its head. If you've ever glanced longingly at a newly built home and thought, "Too expensive for me", think again. In a surprising twist that’s playing out across Jamaica and echoing trends abroad, newly built homes are sometimes selling for less...

Jamaica’s residential property market enters 2025 with momentum. Infrastructure investment is reshaping access across the island. Tourism continues to anchor demand. Mortgage lending has resumed growth after a brief contraction. New homes are being built, new communities planned, and new capital flows directed toward land and housing. From a distance, the picture is reassuring. Look more...

“Buy land — because one day, the opportunity to do so will simply be a memory.” In Jamaica, owning land isn’t just a transaction — it’s a declaration. A declaration of independence, of vision, of intent to grow roots in soil that holds both cultural legacy and personal dreams. But in a market where price tags are climbing and prime locations are vanishing, those with a budget of J$10...

In Jamaican real estate circles, especially among old-time investors and family dinner-table “experts,” there’s a saying that gets tossed around like pepper in soup: “Real estate value double every 10 years.” You’ve probably heard it. Maybe you’ve even said it. But is it really that simple? Not quite. This so-called "10-year rule" has been paraded around the global property stage for...

Property has always been more than bricks and mortar. It is memory, aspiration, and investment layered together across generations. In Jamaica, the value of a home tells not only a financial story, but also a cultural one: how families live, how communities grow, and how design evolves to meet the island’s shifting demands. From the earliest Georgian townhouses of Kingston to today’s ocean-view...

It wouldn’t surprise most Jamaicans to hear that a significant number of buyers pressed pause on their home search last year. The truth? Nearly 70% of would-be homeowners took a step back. And who could blame them? The landscape was rough: prices were soaring like the Blue Mountains, mortgage rates played hopscotch, and property listings were as rare as ackee out of season. So, if you were one of...

Buying your first home in Jamaica isn’t just a milestone—it’s a rite of passage. Whether yuh a save from yuh partner draw or eyeing a nice likkle fixer-upper in Mandeville, the moment you say “Mi ready fi buy a mi own place,” everything changes. But let’s be honest—real estate in Jamaica can feel like a whole new language. Between navigating NHT benefits, mortgage approvals, and...

Standing there, on the edge of the Reading Peninsula, I found myself imagining what Kevin McCloud from Grand Designs might say. The sun danced off the water as I stepped out onto the vast construction site of The Pinnacle, Montego Bay's most ambitious residential high-rise project to date. As Dean Jones—Realtor, Chartered Builder, Project Manager, and Founder of Jamaica Homes—I’ve walked more...

For many Jamaicans, owning a home isn’t just about shelter—it’s about legacy. And for decades, we’ve been finding strategic ways to build that legacy, even when the odds were stacked against us. Whether it was boarding a ship to England in the 1950s, flying out to “foreign” in the 1980s, or doing back-to-back jobs in New York and Miami today—Jamaicans have a long history of going abroad,...

It seems every week there’s a fresh headline from abroad sounding the alarm about a potential housing market crash. Doom here, bust there — and if you’re scrolling social media or watching international news, it’s easy to assume Jamaica’s housing market is on the brink too. But let’s be clear: Jamaica’s story is not America’s rerun. Our housing market is on its own path — one built on...