Moving to Mallorca / Majorca

29/01/2024

Three very different real estate options in the same window today (complete with reflections of me taking the pictures). 1 square metre is about 10 square feet, and 14,200 square metres is about 3½ acres.

You can see that you don't necessarily need a huge amount of money to live in Mallorca if you are prepared to make some choices. (There were plenty of places for over a million Euros, of course.)

Prices typically include the agent's fee, but you would need to add about 10% on top for taxes and notary's fees.

In addition, if a non-EU citizen were to buy the first property, they would probably require permission from the Spanish Ministry of Defence, due to a Franco-era law that doesn't allow foreigners to own land "near" military facilities, which in Mallorca means anywhere outside a built-up area. They could have just repealed this law when democracy came, but for some reason it was kept; they just had to remove EU citizens from "foreigners".

20/11/2023

My wife and I bought an apartment in Mallorca in mid-2017 and moved here in February 2020, a month before Covid. The lockdown gave us ample opportunity to explore the island, which we've continued doing ever since.

Since then I have found myself giving all kinds of advice to people who are visiting the island, and especially those who are thinking of moving here. So this page is a way to centralise that.

I'm happy to talk to anyone with plans to move to Mallorca, or just dreams. Feel free to ask questions. If you're getting more serious, we can schedule a video chat. If you are visiting the island then I'm happy to meet up for coffee, or be your guide for a few hours.

I am British by birth, but I haven't lived in the UK for over 40 years. I speak English, French, Dutch, Spanish and German (in descending order of fluency). My main profile page is here: https://www.facebook.com/nick.brown.2311.

What does this cost? It costs whatever you want to pay. I am comfortably retired and I don't charge for my time, because I enjoy meeting people and helping them realise their plans for a better life. All I ask is that, if you find my input useful, you make a donation — of whatever size seems appropriate — to a homeless charity here on the island.

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