Balearics Islands Visitors – Are We Saturated? A leading British newspaper recently reported that the Balearics are set to join the island of Lanzarote in limiting the number of visitors they accept to avoid saturation during popular holiday periods. A bold and unusual concept but will it really happen?   According to reports in the […]

2022 – A Good Year to Invest in a Spanish Property? Ibiza was, and most likely still is, on course for a bumper, post-covid summer season in 2022 before the war in Eastern Europe cast its dark global shadow and hope for its resolution has to be at the forefront of everyone’s minds.   The […]

Advice For Sellers – Exclusivity & the Benefits Exclusive is a word used often in Ibiza, due to the island’s reputation for the luxurious and unique. Homeowners hoping to sell, however, may not see an advantage in giving the right of exclusivity to one agent when they could be free to ‘shop around’ and sign […]

Property Market Shows Resilience Going Into 2022 As we come to the end of the year experts are pondering the performance of the property market in the Balearics and are making predictions for 2022.   In the decade up to 2020 there was continued growth in both sales and prices, peaking in 2017, ten years […]

Unanticipated Gains for Island Property Market Latest Balearic Islands property data indicates that the market is defying earlier pessimism over possible long-term consequences of the pandemic by continuing its upward trend.   Total house sales in the second quarter of 2021 showed an annual increment of 158.42%, with a quarterly rise of 42.19%, according to […]

Ibiza Property News   Lower Mortgage Rates Boost Market Recovery   Figures published by the Association of Spanish Notaries, showed 71,275 new residential mortgage agreements during the first quarter of 2021, a rise of 18.7% when compared to the same period of last year and representing an upward trend that looks set to continue when […]

New Interest in Ibiza Property Market   Real estate agents in Ibiza are reporting a renewed surge in interest with buyers from the Spanish mainland, Italy, and the Netherlands particularly keen to own property on the island.   The time span between viewing and completing on sales is also getting shorter than before the pandemic, […]

Post Brexit Changes for UK Buyers   The beginning of 2021 has seen the implementation of changes for British citizens looking to invest in Spanish property. For prospective buyers, a new understanding of regulations in a post-Brexit Europe is invaluable if they are to pursue their dream of home ownership. Buying property in Ibiza remains […]

The Golden Visa Scheme – Explained Following the finalisation of Brexit many UK owners of Spanish property, have been detrimentally affected by new immigration and travel legislation. British citizens who have traditionally divided their time between the UK and Spain now feel unable to spend as much time visiting their second home as they would […]