What the data says about Malta
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. 9 of them today.
Geography
Where is the biggest price gap in Malta?
The median home in Wardija asks €8,500,000; in Guardamangia it asks €75,000. Same island, 113.3× 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 Malta?
Going from 3 bedrooms to 4 adds €695,000 to the median asking price — more than any other step on the ladder.
What would make this wrong: A 4-bed house is not a 3-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 Malta?
Valletta asks €7,385 per m²; Gozo - Kercem asks €2,157. The same 100 m² flat differs by €522,800 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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Development
Where is Malta actually being built?
San Gwann accounts for 18% of every new dwelling proposed on the island — 820 of 4,629.
What would make this wrong: Proposed, not built. One large scheme can carry a whole parish, and a refusal or an abandonment leaves the number standing.
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The market
How concentrated is Malta's market?
Three agents hold 48% of everything advertised — 2,971, 1,793, 1,277 listings out of 12,657. 48 agents share the rest.
What would make this wrong: It counts adverts, not sales. An agency that lists everything it is asked to and one that sells everything it lists look identical here.
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The market
Do agents agree on what a house is worth?
499 properties are marketed by more than one agent here, and on 83 of them the agents quote prices more than 2% apart. Both figures are published as given.
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Supply
What is the cheap end of Malta actually like?
Only 830 of 7,632 homes for sale — 10.9% — ask €200,000 or less. The bottom of this market is thinner than most people expect.
What would make this wrong: Cheap homes sell fastest, so at any moment the bottom of the market is under-represented on any listings site, including this one.
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Renting out
Where does renting out pay best in Malta?
Floriana shows the widest gap between rents and prices at 10.6% gross, against 4.4% island-wide.
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This week
What has moved in Malta this week?
9,370 listings appeared, 25 had their price cut and 43 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, Barbados is Malta's closest match anywhere on this site — a median of $550,000 (£402,753) against €445,000 (£381,222), across 7,242 listings against 12,657. Put them side by side
What the same money buys elsewhere
The median Malta asking price, converted, against other islands' medians.
| Island | Their median | What Malta money buys |
|---|---|---|
| Samoa | WS$250,000 | 5.6 homes at their median |
| Dominica | $204,598 | 2.5 homes at their median |
| Belize | $235,000 | 2.2 homes at their median |
| Bahrain | BD 90,000 | 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.