Winchester Estate, Kingston Jamaica Vacation Rentals

Winchester Estate is a secured residential development situated within walking distance from Kingston's major retail hub, Half Way Tree and Jamaica's business district, New Kingston. Winchester Estate is a gated community with remote access. There are two uniformed security guards on the complex 24 hours. These guards work in conjunction with a rapid response security company that has overall responsibility securing the complex. There is ample parking with marked personalized parking as well as a visitor parking area.

This vacation rental complex was built in 2006. The complex consists of two residential buildings, both four storeys, which together house a total of fifty residential units, thirty six on Block A and twenty-four units on Block B comprising super studios, one bedroom and penthouse luxury units. The development is disposed over a site containing an area by survey of 66,659 square feet. Site improvements include guard house, asphalt paved driveway and parking areas, automatic entrance and exit gate, reinforced concrete block walling and soft landing.

Banking, shopping,petrol stations and other domestic requirements are located within walking distance at both Half Way Tree and New Kingston. The area benefits from the provision of the full range of urban services such as paved roads, street lighting, cable television, garbage collection, mail delivery, telephone, Internet, cable TV, domestic water, electricity supply, police and fire protection. Public transportation passes in front of the property on Hope Road.

Winchester Estate is situated on the south-western side of the junction of Winchester Road with Hope Road, and approximately 100 metres east of Half-Way-Tree Square which forms part of a very busy commercial and commuter centre. Being located in the central "uptown" area, Half Way Tree is an important commuter centre with arterial roads leading to more or less all points of the compass; Papine (with the main campuses of the University of Technology and the University of the West Indies ); Hagley Park and Molynes Roads; Cross roads and "Downtown Kingston". There is also a wide variety of shops, pharmacies, restaurants and recreational facilities available at nearby New Kingston and the Half Way Tree Nucleus. For example, the property is within walking distance from the Half Way Tree Transport Centre- a state-of-the-art transport hub. The breath-taking centre sits on over 18,500 square metre, and accommodates 101 Jamaica Urban Transit buses only, that ply 63 routes between the Corporate Area, Portmore and Spanish Town. The centre boasts over 17,000 square metres of commercial space that includes 17 shops, four kiosks, a food court and 17 public toilets. The centre is be complemented by a 26-storey twin towers in the near future. The new hub uses a modern integrated management system to enhance operations and provide real-time scheduling of all buses entering and leaving the centre. The new Kingston area is home to all the major financial institutions in Jamaica- including seven commercial banks, four building societies and three merchant banks.