Most people buy a second home backwards. They open a portal, sort by price, scroll through hundreds of listings, and slowly talk themselves into the one that looks closest to the dream. The home leads. The life adapts.
We think that is the wrong way round. So we start with a single instruction: define your Homebase.
Start with the life, not the listing
Before a single property matters, three questions do. How do you want to live — which place, which rhythm, which kind of mornings? How will you use it — a few peak summer weeks, long shoulder-season stretches, spontaneous escapes? And how do you want to invest — purely for the lifestyle, or with one eye on what the asset returns?
Answer those honestly and the right home almost selects itself. Skip them, and you end up owning someone else’s compromise.
What defining your Homebase actually means
It is not a wish list. It is a brief. You tell us the destination that pulls at you — southeast Mallorca, the French Riviera, somewhere still on our map. You tell us how much of the year you genuinely want to be there, and with whom. And you tell us which kind of owner you are.
From that brief, we match you to a defined share of a real home — not a block of time, not a points scheme. A home that fits the life you described, at a fraction of the cost and none of the year-round burden of owning the whole thing alone.
Lifestyle buyer or investor — they are not the same
A family looking for somewhere to gather every August has different needs from someone who wants a clean, well-structured asset that earns when it sits empty. We treat them as two different briefs, because they are.
For the lifestyle buyer, the questions are about light, space, beaches, and the people you will share it with. For the investor, they are about the structure underneath: how ownership is held, how rental income is split, how clean the exit is. Most people are somewhere in between — and the point of defining your Homebase is to find out exactly where you sit before you fall for a photograph.
Why this works better
One share puts you inside a home you would rarely buy outright — the right village, the right house, the quality you actually wanted — because eight owners carry it together. You own the asset, not a calendar. A local team runs everything: the legal structure, the bookings, the maintenance, the resale. You arrive and use the home.
Co-ownership only works when the match is right. That is why we ask you to define it first — so the home you end up with is the one you would have chosen on purpose, not the one you settled for at the bottom of a search.
Your move
Take five minutes and tell us how you want to live, use and invest. We will come back with homes that fit the brief — across Mallorca, Cannes, and the destinations opening next.
Define your Homebase, or explore the homes already open for co-ownership. And if you would rather watch it unfold first, join the Homebase Newsletter — extraordinary homes, owner stories, and the occasional shift in tax or law, only when it is worth your time.
