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The purchase price is only the beginning. Once the keys are yours, a Mallorca home settles into a rhythm of smaller, recurring costs: taxes, fees, utilities and the upkeep a second home in the sun quietly demands. None is dramatic alone, but together they define what it really costs to own here year after year. We are a boutique agency working the southeast — Ses Salines, Santanyí,...

So you have found the price of a villa in southeast Mallorca and you want to know the real, all-in number. Fair question, and one we answer every week for American buyers. The sticker price is only part of the story: on top of it you will pay taxes, a notary, the land registry, your lawyer, and a few smaller items. Together these are what Spain calls "gastos de compraventa," and for a resale home in the...

Key Takeaway for US Buyers: The ultimate exit strategy for a US seller in Mallorca requires executing forensic legal audits years before listing, pricing the asset for the ultra-luxury cash market, managing the 3% non-resident retention at the Notary, and utilizing elite FX brokers to repatriate massive USD wealth. Preparing the legal paperwork years in advance For the affluent United States investor,...

Key Takeaway for US Buyers: The Ley de Arrendamientos Rústicos governs the leasing of agricultural land in Spain. US owners of massive Mallorca country houses use this law to lease their olive groves to local farmers, ensuring the land is expertly maintained while legally protecting the estate from severe agricultural abandonment fines. The burden of massive agricultural maintenance For affluent United...

Key Takeaway for US Buyers: The Impuesto de Donaciones is the Spanish tax levied on living wealth transfers. For US expats, gifting cash or a Mallorca property to children triggers this aggressive Spanish tax, entirely ignoring the massive American lifetime gift tax exemptions and causing severe cross-border tax complications. The severe taxation of living wealth transfers For ultra-high-net-worth United...

Mallorca has some of the finest beaches and coves in the Mediterranean, and they could hardly be more different from one another. There are kilometre-long stretches of white sand and turquoise water, tiny coves hidden between cliffs, mountain beaches at the end of a ravine, and unspoilt corners you can only reach on foot. This is our honest guide, zone by zone, written by people who live on the island all...

Sa Calobra and the Torrent de Pareis make up one of the most spectacular landscapes in Mallorca, and in the whole Mediterranean. Deep in the heart of the Serra de Tramuntana (the municipality of Escorca), a small pebble cove opens at the end of a giant canyon, between walls of rock that plunge straight into the sea. This isn't your everyday beach day: it's an excursion, one of those natural wonders you...

Formentor is one of the most beautiful beaches in Mallorca, and one of the few that brings together sand, pine forest and mountains in a single view. Set on the spectacular Formentor peninsula, at the far northern tip of the island (in the municipality of Pollença), it's a stretch of fine sand beneath the pines, with calm water and views of the Serra de Tramuntana. But getting there has its tricks in...

Cala Santanyí brings together the best of two worlds: a beautiful golden-sand beach and, just a step away, one of Mallorca's natural icons, the Es Pontàs arch. It sits within the municipality of Santanyí, deep in the southeast, and is one of the easiest coves in the area to enjoy — well served and accessible, yet without losing any of its beauty. We'll tell you what it's like, how to get there and...

Cala Llombards is one of those coves that gives you everything that's good about southeast Mallorca without the difficulty of the others. Fine golden sand, turquoise water, pines, low cliffs and the classic fishermen's huts carved into the rock, in the municipality of Santanyí. It's unspoilt and beautiful and, at the same time, relatively easy to reach — which is exactly why it's a firm favourite among...