A steady stream of Trinida­di­an in­vestors is look­ing north to Bar­ba­dos, not just for sec­ond homes, but for stronger re­turns, US-dol­lar in­come and a re­al es­tate prod­uct they say is in­creas­ing­ly dif­fi­cult to find at home.

That shift was on dis­play on Thurs­day evening when Bar­ba­dos-based Alt­man Re­al Es­tate Group part­nered with lo­cal en­ti­ty Hart and Co Re­al Es­tate Ltd to host an in­vestor-fo­cused show­case at the Brix Ho­tel in Port-of-Spain, in­tro­duc­ing two ma­jor de­vel­op­ments to the lo­cal mar­ket.

At the cen­tre of that push is Zoe Hart, CEO of Hart and Co Re­al Es­tate Ltd, who has spent the last two years po­si­tion­ing Bar­ba­dos as a vi­able out­let for Trinida­di­an cap­i­tal.+