Real occupancy, nightly rates and RevPAR from live Airbnb calendars across St. Barts’ north, east, south and west coasts — the data layer for underwriting a Caribbean vacation rental on numbers, not brochures.
St. Barts is a single 25 km² island rather than a set of regional markets, and it sits at the top of the Caribbean rate card: median ADR across the tracked listings runs above USD 1,000 a night, with the upper quartile above USD 2,000, on a short winter season and a September–October trough when much of the island closes. It is also a jurisdiction of its own — a French overseas Collectivité with its own tax code, freehold title through a notaire, 5% registration duty on purchase, no annual property tax on individual owners (an entity or trust not headquartered in France owes 3% of market value a year instead), and a mandatory rental declaration with the Collectivité before a villa is let. It is the smallest market we track, and calendar history here starts in April 2026 — four completed months — so the figures below are an early read rather than a long record. For-sale listings ranked by measured STR yield are coming; the market data is already live below.
320
Tracked Listings
12
Areas Covered
37%
Avg Occupancy
$1,472
Typical ADR
$545
RevPAR
Occupancy and ADR are observed from live Airbnb calendars across Apr 2026–Nov 2026 (320 tracked listings), shown in USD. ADR reflects asking prices; upcoming months show booking pace to date and typically rise as the month approaches.
The north shore — Flamands, St Jean, Lorient and Pointe Milou, the airport side and the island’s densest cluster of rental villas.
4 areas tracked
The windward end — Grand Cul-de-Sac and Petit Cul-de-Sac out to Vitet, quieter, more spread out and more exposed.
3 areas tracked
The southern side — Gouverneur, Lurin and Toiny, the least-built coast, each bay reached by a single road.
3 areas tracked
Gustavia and Corossol — the harbour town and its western approach, where yacht-season demand lands. The smallest of the four buckets by listing count.
2 areas tracked
Live Airbnb performance by area — occupancy and typical nightly rate (USD) from tracked calendars, all property sizes blended.
| Area | Region | Listings | Occupancy | Typical ADR | Est. Monthly Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flamands | North | 62 | 39% | $1,395 | $13,000 |
| Petit Cul de Sac | East | 55 | 34% | $1,097 | $9,532 |
| St Jean | North | 47 | 37% | $1,422 | $13,107 |
| Grand Cul de Sac | East | 32 | 37% | $1,765 | $16,742 |
| Gustavia | West | 28 | 35% | $1,020 | $8,729 |
| Lorient | North | 25 | 36% | $858 | $8,035 |
| Lurin | South | 19 | 42% | $2,355 | $21,666 |
| Vitet | East | 15 | 37% | $1,254 | $8,856 |
| Toiny | South | 13 | 35% | $941 | $8,179 |
| Gouverneur | South | 13 | 38% | $4,679 | $43,993 |
| Corossol | West | 6 | 56% | $1,443 | $17,315 |
| Pointe Milou | North | 5 | 41% | $2,774 | $20,129 |
Calendar-observed occupancy per month. Upcoming months show bookings already on the calendar and fill further as dates approach.
Studio
35% occupancy
$705 per night
36 tracked
1 bedroom
38% occupancy
$454 per night
91 tracked
2 bedrooms
38% occupancy
$890 per night
82 tracked
3 bedrooms
36% occupancy
$1,541 per night
47 tracked
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Yes, and without a nationality or residency condition — a non-resident buyer takes full freehold title in their own name or through a company, with a French-system notaire handling title, funds and registration. The thing to plan around is the Collectivité’s right of pre-emption over transfers under Article L.O. 6214-7 of the CGCT, which empowers it to require transfers of land and related company rights to be declared and then to pre-empt by reasoned deliberation within two months — and the protection that article gives buyers with sufficient residence on the island does not extend to a non-resident purchaser. Ask your notaire whether the declaration regime is currently in force and what it does to your closing timetable.
It is a declaration regime rather than a discretionary licence. Since May 2019 every vacation rental must be declared to the Collectivité on its declaloc platform, which issues a 13-digit registration number that Airbnb and other platforms require on the listing; failure to declare is subject to an administrative fine under Article 125 bis of Saint-Barthélemy’s Code des contributions — confirm the current amount with the Collectivité. A national registration number (NER) was due in May 2026 and has been deferred to late 2026, so confirm the current form of the obligation with the Collectivité. Brixfox does not verify registration — no listing shown here is asserted to be declared or permitted.
The Collectivité has its own tax code and levies no income tax on rental income, no taxe foncière and no taxe d’habitation on individual owners, so for an owner who is tax-resident elsewhere the rent is taxed in their home country and the local charge is the 5% taxe de séjour on guest payments, remitted monthly. Entity ownership is the exception: a legal entity, trust or grouping that is not headquartered in France and holds property on the island owes an annual taxe sur la valeur vénale of 3% of market value, declared between 1 January and 31 March each year — enough to exceed the net rental yield outright, so do not assume a holding company is cost-neutral. The exception that catches people is the five-year rule: someone who relocates to the island but has been resident under five years is still treated as a French tax resident on worldwide income. Take advice in your own country of residence as well as locally — “no income tax” does not do the underwriting for you.
On purchase, registration duty is 5% of declared value, and with notaire and registry costs buyers are typically quoted 6–7% of price all-in. On resale, the Collectivité’s own capital-gains tax applies to non-residents as well as residents on property located on the island: 35% if you sell before the eighth year of ownership, 20% after, with a 10%-per-year abatement running from year eight. Short holds are expensive here, so the exit assumption matters as much as the yield.
The season is a winter one — roughly mid-December to April, with the Christmas–New Year fortnight the peak and September–October the trough, when hurricane season closes a meaningful part of the island’s supply. Calendar tracking here begins in April 2026 and covers four completed months, so this page shows a fragment of a year rather than a proven record — and no part of the December–April high season is inside that window at all; the peak is entirely unobserved. It is also the smallest market we track (1,533 listings, 1,133 with occupancy data), and much of the island’s villa business is brokered off-platform, so read Airbnb-derived figures as one view of the market rather than the whole of it.
Freehold under French civil law (pleine propriété), acquired through a French-system notaire who verifies title, holds the funds and registers the deed. There is no nationality or residency restriction: any buyer, regardless of passport or tax residence, can hold title directly in their own name or through a company/SCI — but note that a company, trust or grouping not headquartered in France triggers the 3% annual taxe sur la valeur vénale on market value (see the tax section), so entity ownership is not neutral here. Saint-Barthélemy has no leasehold regime comparable to Bali’s and no equivalent of Mexico’s trust structure — neither carries over here. The one structural feature a remote buyer must plan around is the Collectivité’s statutory right of pre-emption over property transfers (Article L.O. 6214-7 of the CGCT, a land-protection power whose conditions turn on the parties’ length of residence on the island): the article empowers the Collectivité to require transfers of land and related company rights to be declared and then to pre-empt by reasoned deliberation within two months of that declaration, and the protection it gives buyers with sufficient island residence does not extend to a non-resident purchaser. Ask a St Barts notaire whether the declaration regime is currently in force, and what it does to your closing timetable, before committing to a closing date.
Short-term letting requires a declaration, not a discretionary licence. Since 1 May 2019 every vacation-rental owner in Saint-Barthélemy must register the property with the Collectivité on its declaloc platform (saint-barthelemy.declaloc.fr) and is issued a registration number — a 13-digit number that booking platforms including Airbnb require on the listing. Failure to declare is subject to an administrative fine under Article 125 bis of Saint-Barthélemy’s Code des contributions; confirm the current amount with the Collectivité. Every stay attracts a taxe de séjour of 5% of the net nightly price, collected by the owner, hotelier or intermediary and remitted monthly to the Collectivité’s treasury. Guests on a rental contract of more than six months, and seasonal workers on an employment contract, are exempt from the taxe de séjour — that exemption does not by itself remove the obligation to declare the property. The Collectivité’s own portal notes that a national registration number (NER) for furnished tourist rentals, originally set for 20 May 2026, has been deferred to the last quarter of 2026 — the paperwork is in transition, so the current requirement must be confirmed with the Collectivité at the point of purchase. Brixfox does not verify registration status: nothing on this page states or implies that any individual listing is declared, registered or otherwise permitted to let short-term.
Saint-Barthélemy has had its own tax code since 2007 and mainland French tax rules do not apply by default. Acquisition: droits de mutation (registration duty) of 5% of declared value, plus notaire and land-registry costs — buyers are commonly quoted 6–7% of price all-in. Holding: no taxe foncière, no taxe d’habitation, no local income tax and no local wealth tax on an individual owner. The exception is entity ownership: a legal entity, trust or grouping that is not headquartered in France and holds immovable property or real rights on the island owes an annual taxe sur la valeur vénale of 3% of market value, declared between 1 January and 31 March each year, and the 3% applies where no declaration is filed. On the values this market trades at, that charge would exceed the net rental yield outright — structure the purchase with a St Barts notaire before assuming a holding company is neutral. Rental income: the Collectivité levies no income tax on it, so for a genuinely non-resident owner the rent is taxed where that owner is tax-resident, not on the island; the operating charge that does bite locally is the 5% taxe de séjour on guest payments. The five-year rule is the trap: under Article LO 6214-4 of the CGCT, introduced by the organic law of 21 February 2007 and applicable since 15 July 2007, someone who moves to the island but has been resident under five years is still treated as a French tax resident and taxed by France on worldwide income, with credit for local tax — so “St Barts has no income tax” is a statement about the Collectivité, not a promise about a given buyer’s position. Exit: the local tax on real-estate capital gains applies to residents and non-residents alike on property situated in the Collectivité, at 35% on a sale before the eighth year of ownership and 20% thereafter, with a 10%-per-year abatement running from year eight, so the charge tapers away over roughly the following decade. Companies with an establishment on the island pay the annual flat CFAE. Confirm all of this with a St Barts notaire and with a tax adviser in the buyer’s own country of residence before underwriting a net yield.
St Barts runs the northern-Caribbean winter pattern: demand concentrates from mid-December to April, with the Christmas–New Year fortnight the single most expensive window of the year and January–March holding rates well above the annual mean. Late summer and early autumn are the trough — September and October sit inside hurricane season and a material share of villas, restaurants and services close outright, so low-season occupancy reflects supply withdrawal as much as weak demand. Our own calendar history opens in April 2026, so no part of the December–April high season is inside the tracked window — the peak is entirely unobserved in our data. This shape is the market’s known seasonal structure, not a curve we have observed at all; treat every annual occupancy, ADR and RevPAR figure on this page as a warm-season measurement extrapolated forward, not as a recorded year.
Smallest market tracked: 1,533 Airbnb listings, of which roughly 1,130 (74%) carry occupancy stats — one in four tracked listings contributes no performance data, so region-level figures must be read alongside their listing counts. Around a third of tracked listings (497 of 1,533) also have no coast assigned and are excluded from the four regional cuts, and the West bucket in particular rests on a few dozen listings; island-wide figures include the unassigned listings, regional figures do not. Calendar history begins in April 2026 — four completed months. There is no multi-year trend here, and no part of the December–April high season is inside the tracked window, so annual occupancy, ADR and RevPAR figures are warm-season readings extrapolated forward and must not be presented as proven performance. ADR is derived from asking prices on Airbnb calendars, not settled transactions, and a large share of St Barts villa business is brokered off-platform. Airbnb-derived figures are one view of the market, not the whole of it. This is an ultra-premium market with a very wide rate distribution (median ADR around USD 1,040, upper quartile above USD 2,080, and a top decile clearing USD 4,000); a small number of large villas move any mean. Prefer medians and always show the comp count.
Brixfox does not verify short-term-rental registration. No listing on this page is stated or implied to hold a valid meublé de tourisme declaration or to be permitted to let short-term. Saint-Barthélemy is a French overseas Collectivité with its own tax code — mainland French property, income and wealth-tax rules do not apply by default, and rules from other Brixfox markets do not carry over. The Collectivité holds a statutory right of pre-emption over property transfers (Art. L.O. 6214-7 CGCT), which affects transaction certainty and timing. Ownership, registration and tax details are general information current as of August 2026 and are not advice. Confirm with a St Barts notaire and with a tax adviser in your own country of residence before underwriting. There is no for-sale catalog for this market yet — nothing on this page is an offer of property for sale.
Brixfox tracks live Airbnb availability calendars across St. Barts and derives occupancy, ADR and RevPAR from observed bookings — the same engine behind our Bali, Portugal, Dubai and Spain markets. It is real market data shown in USD, not survey estimates.
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