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The Cost of Living in Ibiza: Is It As Expensive As Everyone Says?

Ask anyone who has never lived in Ibiza whether it is expensive, and you will get a very particular kind of answer. It usually involves a figure plucked from a summer holiday, a cocktail at a beach club, and a taxi fare that looked wrong but turned out to be entirely real. The conclusion is […]

From Holiday to Home: How to Make the Move to Ibiza Permanent

Most people who end up living in Ibiza permanently did not plan it that way, they came for a holiday, then another. Soon familiar faces started appearing everywhere. Over time, they began noticing the island differently – the way it quiets in October, the way the hills look in spring, and the way a Tuesday […]

Poolside or Beachfront? Choosing Between Ibiza’s Two Great Lifestyles

It is one of the first questions serious buyers ask when they start looking at property in Ibiza – poolside or beachfront? Do you want to wake up to the sound of the sea, steps from the beach, with the Mediterranean filling the window? Or do you want privacy, space, pine trees, and a hillside […]

It’s Not All Raves and Beach Clubs: What Life in Ibiza Is Really Like

Mention Ibiza to most people and a fairly predictable set of images comes to mind. Beach clubs. Nightclubs. Superstar DJs. White parties. Sunsets over Café del Mar. It is, in the popular imagination, a place you visit for an experiential summer, rather than a place you live. Yvonne Anderson has lived in Ibiza for over […]

February Blog 2023 – Busy, Busy Balearic Islands

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 […]

April Blog – 2022, A Good Year to Invest?

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 […]

February Blog – Exclusivity for Sellers

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 […]

December Blog – Property Market Resilience

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 […]

November Blog – Unanticipated Gains

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 […]