What the data says about Barbados
Not opinions — arithmetic. Each of these came out of the registers and the listings themselves, and each links to the page it was computed from so you can check it. 6 of them today.
Geography
Where is the biggest price gap in Barbados?
The median home in Grenada asks $7,750,000; in St Philip, Oughterson, Vineyard it asks $52,410. Same island, 147.9× the price.
What would make this wrong: It compares what is on the market, not like for like. An area of large houses will always beat an area of flats, whatever the land underneath is worth.
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What things cost
Which bedroom costs the most in Barbados?
Going from 4 bedrooms to 5 adds $1,645,000 to the median asking price — more than any other step on the ladder.
What would make this wrong: A 5-bed house is not a 4-bed house with a room added — it is usually a bigger plot in a different place. This is the price of a different kind of home, not the price of a bedroom.
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What things cost
Where does a square metre cost most in Barbados?
St. Michael asks $8,761 per m²; Christ Church asks $5,931. The same 100 m² flat differs by $283,000 depending only on where it stands.
What would make this wrong: Only the listings whose agent published a floor area are in this, and agents measure differently. Condition and outside space are not in it at all.
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The market
Do agents agree on what a house is worth?
527 properties are marketed by more than one agent here, and on 111 of them the agents quote prices more than 2% apart. Both figures are published as given.
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Renting out
Where does renting out pay best in Barbados?
St Peter, Speightstown shows the widest gap between rents and prices at 9.5% gross, against 10.9% island-wide.
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This week
What has moved in Barbados this week?
91 listings appeared, 31 had their price cut and 9 went up. We read every agent's site overnight, so this is the week as it happened.
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The island most like this one
On asking price and market size, Malta is Barbados's closest match anywhere on this site — a median of €465,000 (£398,902) against $550,000 (£414,687), across 13,733 listings against 7,192. Put them side by side
What the same money buys elsewhere
The median Barbados asking price, converted, against other islands' medians.
| Island | Their median | What Barbados money buys |
|---|---|---|
| Samoa | WS$250,000 | 6.0 homes at their median |
| Dominica | $204,597 | 2.7 homes at their median |
| Bahrain | BD 90,000 | 2.3 homes at their median |
| Belize | $249,000 | 2.2 homes at their median |
Converted at the previous day's reference rates. It compares medians, not like-for-like houses — an island of flats will always look cheap against an island of villas.