Mallorca · Illes Balears · Licensed under Ley 5/2014
Mallorca's foreign population is predominantly German, then British and Scandinavian, and a great deal of its property is held through companies. Cases here are cross-border by default.
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Mallorca differs from the mainland costas in a way that shapes every instruction: a very high proportion of foreign-owned property is a genuine second home rather than a permanent residence, occupied for part of the year and empty for the rest. The owner is usually in Germany, the UK or Scandinavia when a problem arises.
That produces the island's signature case: something has happened to a property while nobody was there. Unauthorised occupation, unauthorised letting by a manager or caretaker, damage, or simply an owner who cannot establish what condition the house is in without flying over.
The second cluster is matrimonial and succession work with a cross-border financial dimension. Where a couple hold a Mallorcan property alongside assets in Germany or the UK, establishing what exists in Spain is frequently the missing piece rather than the whole picture.
The third is the marine and seasonal economy — the yachting sector around Palma, and the staffing that goes with high-value villa management. Verification of people entrusted with substantial property is a recurring instruction here in a way it is not elsewhere.
Palma and the southwest corridor where most foreign ownership concentrates, plus the island generally:
Proceedings for the island are heard at the courts in Palma, with the Audiencia Provincial de Baleares as the appeal court for the Balearic Islands. Property title is recorded across the numbered Registros de la Propiedad de Palma and the district registries at Inca and Manacor.
Two local points matter for foreign owners. The Balearics have their own civil law provisions in areas including succession, so advice given for the mainland does not automatically transfer. And holiday letting is tightly regulated here, with a licensing regime that makes the legality of a letting arrangement itself a frequent question in disputes.
Establishing who is in a second home, whether it is being let without authority, and what condition it is in.
What is actually held in Spain, for estates and matrimonial matters administered in Germany or the UK.
German and British lawyers who need Spanish evidence signed by a Spanish licensed detective.
Agents, managers, contractors and counterparties, checked before rather than after.
Mallorca, specifically
I'm not in Spain and I think something is wrong at my house. Can you check?
Where you own the property there is a clear legitimate interest, so yes. What can be established lawfully is what is visible from public space and what the records show — occupancy, apparent use, condition from outside. We cannot enter, and neither can anyone else without your authority.
Do you work with German clients and lawyers?
The instruction and the report run in English; the investigation and signature are Spanish and licensed. For German-language correspondence your own lawyer normally sits in the middle, which is the usual arrangement here.
My property is being let out and I never agreed to it.
That is a common Mallorca instruction and it is documentable: whether the property is being advertised, whether it is occupied and by whom, and whether any letting licence exists. Those facts are what your lawyer needs before acting.
Do you cover the whole island or only Palma?
The whole island. In practice most foreign-instructed work sits in the southwest corridor, but the north and the interior are perfectly workable.
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