If you want to sell, we introduce you by name to the licensed Bahamian brokerage that actually covers your end of the island, and you are never charged. If you let the place yourself, we will list it free in the island guide — your words, your photographs, your booking link, no commission, ever.
No price guidance appears anywhere on this site, because we hold no verified comparable sales for this island and will not pretend otherwise. Ask the brokerage for comparables and ask to see them.
The Bahamas is an unregistered land country: no state register of title, ownership proved by a chain of recorded deeds. On Eleuthera a great many parcels are family-held or generational, and a gap forty years back is found by the buyer’s attorney at exactly the moment it costs you the sale. If there is any question over how your title is held, start there, months before you think about listing.
Agents are licensed under the Real Estate (Brokers and Salesmen) Act 1995 and regulated by BREA. Commission is customarily 6% on developed property and 10% on vacant land, normally the seller’s. BREA prohibits net listings — where the agent keeps whatever they get above a figure you name. If anyone proposes one, that is your answer about them.
BREA states the assessment as one half of the Government VAT to each side, so a seller customarily carries 5%. On a net sale you can end up carrying all 10%. It is a commercial term, not a legal one, so it is negotiable and belongs in the Agreement for Sale in writing.
Proceeds leaving the country run through Exchange Control. If the purchase holds Approved Investment Status, the Central Bank’s published position is that a non-resident may repatriate, on application, income derived from the sale and any rental income. If it was never registered, that is a conversation to have with your attorney early rather than at closing.
A house that has been let, and can show what it let for, is a different proposition to one that cannot. Buyers at the top of this market are frequently buying an operating property, and the ones who are will ask. Get that history into a form somebody can read.
Approaching another broker’s live listing is not something we do, and on an island this size it would end the relationships this whole desk runs on. Come back when the listing ends — or if your agent is good, keep them.
What it is, roughly where, and what you are trying to do. That is enough to work out who should be looking at it. One person reads it and nobody else sees it.
No fee, no commission, no cut of your booking, no tier that costs more. Travellers contact you directly and you keep all of it.
The name, where it is, how many it sleeps, your own description and your own photographs, and however you take bookings — a link, a phone number, an email.
Sending it gives us permission to show it on this site and nothing further. It stays yours, and one email takes it down again the same day.
Your listing links straight to you. We are not an agent for it, we do not take the booking, and no money passes through us.
Why free? Because a guide that only lists whoever paid is not a guide, and because the thing this site is actually for is being the place people check first.
Send your place →Not for the introduction, not for the guide, not for anything on this site. If a purchase or a sale completes, the receiving Bahamian brokerage may pay a referral fee out of its own commission. That does not change the price of the property and it does not come out of your pocket.
Under the bilateral agreement between the National Association of Realtors and the Bahamas Real Estate Association, a foreign agent may refer business to a BREA-licensed broker or salesman and receive a referral fee of up to 25%. That is the ceiling and we do not go near arrangements outside it.
The fee is paid by the Bahamian brokerage to eXp Realty, not agent to agent, and reaches the agent through their commission agreement. It is documented by an executed referral agreement before anything moves.
We are not a licensed Bahamian brokerage and we do not practise real estate in The Bahamas — doing so without a BREA licence is an offence under the Real Estate (Brokers and Salesmen) Act 1995. We introduce you to someone who is licensed, by name. Your own Bahamian attorney handles the conveyance and the opinion on title.
Nothing on this site is legal, tax or investment advice. Figures are checked against government, regulator and Bahamian law-firm sources and dated; rates move at budget, so have them confirmed in writing before you rely on them. If you would rather no referral fee were involved at all, say so in your message and the introduction is made anyway.