The Homebooker agency in the Balearics

Question 1

What sets the Balearics apart from other Mediterranean markets?

Accepted Answer

The proportion of foreign buyers, and the level at which they buy. Close to three sales in ten closed in 2025 with a buyer from another country, some 4,370 transactions across the archipelago. Germany supplies 39 % of those buyers, the United Kingdom 9.4 %, and seven in ten live inside the European Union. Those buyers from elsewhere are not aiming at the entry level. Their acquisitions cross the 500,000-euro mark in 42 % of cases, while neither Madrid, nor Andalusia, nor Catalonia reaches one foreign purchase in four above that same mark.

Question 2

Which island to buy on, depending on the plan?

Accepted Answer

Ibiza for intense seasonal use, Mallorca for a lasting presence. The Ibizan upper end tightens onto a ribbon of coast, heavily contested each summer and markedly quieter the rest of the year. What you buy there is an address whose use fits into a few months. Mallorca carries a year-round life: fifteen minutes separate the international airport from the residential quarters west of Palma, international schools are there, and the city does not close in winter. Its market also runs deeper, so it resells more readily in the south-west, and is narrower but irreplaceable inside the listed range.

Question 3

How is a property vetted before it is put forward?

Accepted Answer

The ground first, the file second, and never the reverse. What gets measured on site: which way the house turns, how high it stands over the water, how many minutes truly separate it from the first sand and the first shop, what surface the road ends on, and who occupies the plot next door. None of it can be read in a listing. Then the file: does what stands match the plans lodged, what easements burden the land, where the water comes from, where the waste water goes, and if the property is to take guests, which licence and which registration number it carries. A point left without an answer is announced as one.

Question 4

What is a property worth when it comes with its letting licence?

Accepted Answer

It is worth appreciably more, and the gap is not closing. The number of tourist letting places has been fixed across the whole archipelago since February 2022. None come into being: a place passes with the property in a sale, or emerges from a pool fed solely by owners relinquishing theirs. The mechanics differ from island to island. Mallorca redistributes by draw and makes licences issued in 2026 untransferable for five years, which raises the price of older ones. Palma closed every new place on its territory in February 2026. Ibiza works by strict exchange, one place activated against one struck off.

Question 5

Should you view in summer or out of season?

Accepted Answer

Both, and for opposite reasons. Summer puts the area to the test: how many cars go by, where you park, what carries to the terrace, how many people walk down to the cove, and whether water and power hold when the island's population doubles. February's calm says nothing about 15 August. Winter judges the house: damp, heating, the state of walls and joinery against the salt, how the access track holds up in rain. On older properties inside the Mallorcan range, that visit is the one that teaches most. Coming twice, at opposite points of the year, beats a single extended stay.

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