Our services
What we do, what it costs, and what it commits you to
Homebase works for owners and buyers of second homes in Mallorca. Below is every service we offer, why it exists and how it is paid for. Nothing is bundled, and nothing is hidden until the end.
Seller services
For owners who want to sell
A home listed with six agencies has no owner of its story, so nobody invests in telling it. Months pass, the price comes down, and the only thing that changed is that everyone lost. Every service below exists to break that pattern.
Step one
Valuation and readiness review
Why: most owners are told a price, not shown one.
We establish what the home is, what it needs and what it would realistically net after commission, plusvalía, the gain and the retention. You get the number you actually keep, and a list of what stands between the house and a sale.
Fixed fee, quoted first
Step two
Preparing the home
Why: buyers discount for every unknown they meet.
Condition, paperwork, permits and licences resolved before the first viewing. Photography, film, floor plans and the brochure made once and made properly — and owned by Homebase, not scattered across six agencies with six reference numbers.
Fixed fee, or folded into the mandate
Step three
Master Agent mandate
Why: everyone else in a sale is paid on the sale happening.
You appoint us to run it. We select and manage the agents, run the viewings so you are not on a plane for each one, hold one narrative across every channel, and put a net-proceeds calculation behind every offer — after costs, not before.
Success fee at completion
Step four
Co-ownership structuring
Why: one house, one buyer, is one market.
The same prepared home offered to a second market: up to eight co-owners, through a Spanish S.L. or directly on the deed. Investors are assembled first, and the sale completes only when the places are filled. You may keep one or more shares on the same terms as everyone else.
Success fee at completion
Reach
Selected channels and the agent network
Why: the big firms’ advantage is not better agents, it is reach.
Our own channel, a network of agents where the buyers actually live, and paid placement in front of buyers abroad. A ring-fenced share of our fee goes straight back out into that placement rather than into our margin.
Included in the mandate
Also available
Clearance, storage and logistics
Why: selling a lived-in home is a physical job, not only a commercial one.
Emptying, storing, shipping or selling what does not go with the house — coordinated through Homes in Mallorca so you do not have to manage it from another country.
Fixed fee, quoted first
Before anything else
Technical and legal survey
Why: a buyer who finds a problem discounts twice what it costs to fix.
An architect goes through the property and establishes what is actually there and whether it is legal: built area against what is registered, extensions and pool, building and first-occupation licences, cadastral match, and anything that needs regularising before a sale. Delivered as a written report you own.
Fixed fee, paid to the architect
Before and after
Third-party valuation report
Why: your own number is an opinion until someone independent signs it.
An independent valuation of the home as it stands, and a second one of the home as it would be after a planned upgrade. Two numbers, from someone with no interest in the outcome — which is what makes them usable with a buyer, a bank or a co-owner.
Fixed fee, paid to the valuer
If something is missing
Regularisation and permits
Why: most problems on this island are paperwork, not concrete.
Where the survey finds something out of order, the same architect can put it right: licences, certificates, cadastral corrections, the permits for a planned upgrade. Solved before a buyer ever sees it.
Project fee, paid to the architect
The survey, the valuation and any regularisation are carried out by the specialists in the Homebase network under their own name, and they invoice you directly. We coordinate; we do not mark their work up.
Buyer services
For people buying here
You are buying in a market you do not live in, in a language you may not speak, under a legal system you did not grow up with. The work is to remove the guessing, not to add enthusiasm.
Finding it
Search and shortlist
Why: the listings you can see are not the whole market.
We work from what you are actually trying to do rather than a portal filter, and bring homes that fit — including ones not publicly listed. Every home in our own collection comes with condition, permits and numbers already on the table.
No charge to the buyer
Checking it
Due diligence coordination
Why: the notary represents nobody and the agent sells the house.
We put you with a lawyer who acts only for you, and we run the process around them: registry, licences, debts, community minutes, the survey. You get one point of contact instead of five.
Your lawyer bills you directly
Owning part of it
Buying a share
Why: a whole house is not the only way in.
Up to eight co-owners in one home, structured before anyone signs, with usage, costs, voting and resale written down in advance. The same house, at the share of it you actually need.
No charge to the buyer
Moving in
Move-in-ready delivery
Why: a house you cannot use for a year is not a holiday home.
Furnishing, works, licences and the practical set-up handled before the keys, so the home works from the first day. Where you want to put your own mark on it, our local team runs the project.
Fixed fee or project fee
Paying for it
Finance
Why: timing rarely lines up with liquidity.
Introductions to bridge and completion finance through advisors who work with foreign buyers in Spain every week.
Advisor bills you directly
From abroad
Buying without being here
Why: most of our buyers are somewhere else.
NIE, power of attorney, viewings on film, and a lead agent on the ground who is the same person from first question to keys. You travel when it is worth travelling.
Included
Owner services
After the keys
This is where most of the island stops and where the actual work starts. A second home is used a few weeks a year and stands empty for the rest. Left alone it does not hold still — it gets worse, and it loses value.
Ongoing
Property and ownership management
Why: distance is the enemy of a well-kept house.
Maintenance, gardens, pool, suppliers, inspections, insurance, the annual filings and the paperwork that comes with owning in Spain. One team on the ground, one report to you.
Monthly fee
Ongoing
Rental and guest management
Why: an empty house earns nothing and still costs.
Listing, pricing, bookings, guests, cleaning, the tourist tax and the reporting — run through Homebase Booking. Short lets where the licence allows it, mid-term where it does not.
Share of rental income
Project
Renovation and upgrade
Why: the value in most Mallorca homes is unrealised, not absent.
From a refresh to a full renovation: plans, permits, contractors, budget and site management, with the owner approving at the points that matter and nothing else.
Project fee
Co-owners
Co-owner administration
Why: shared ownership fails on administration, not on people.
The booking calendar, the cost split, the voting, the accounts and the reporting, run on one system so nobody has to chase anyone. The cap table is digital and always current.
Included in management
Later
Selling a share
Why: the exit has to exist before people will enter.
A share can be sold on. We handle valuation, finding the incoming owner, the approval process in the shareholders’ agreement and the transfer, without the other owners having to do anything.
Success fee at completion
Ongoing
Reporting for owners
Why: an owner abroad should not have to ask how the house is doing.
What the home earned, what it cost, what was done to it and what is coming — on a fixed rhythm, in writing, without having to request it.
Included in management
How we are paid
Four ways, and we say which one before we start
Most of this island is paid only when a sale happens, which quietly decides whose advice you get. We use four models, and the one that applies to your job is agreed in writing before any work begins.
No charge
The first conversation, and a view on whether the home suits what we do. If it does not, we will say so and that is the end of it.
Fixed fee
Work with a defined start and finish — a valuation and readiness review, preparing a home, a clearance. Quoted before we begin, invoiced on delivery, and it stands whether or not a sale follows.
Success fee
Paid out of the proceeds when a sale completes, at the rate set in the mandate. On Mallorca the market runs 4–6%, with 5% the usual starting point. Nothing is due if nothing sells.
Monthly or share of income
Ongoing management and rental. A fixed monthly fee for looking after the home, a share of income where we are letting it. Cancellable on notice.
Third parties bill you directly and we do not mark them up: your lawyer, your tax advisor, the architect, the finance advisor. Where we introduce them, you know who they are and what they charge before they start.
The agreements
Two documents, and neither of them traps you
Owners are right to be careful about what they sign. So the first document commits you to nothing at all, and the second one has an end date written into it.
First
The Gentleman’s Agreement
A statement of intent, in plain language, that we will explore a sale together. No cost to you, no exclusivity, no obligation on either side to proceed. It sets out what we intend to do, an indicative value for planning, and the two routes the home could take — sold whole, or shared between up to eight co-owners.
Either party can step away at any time, for any reason, without cost or penalty. It exists so the work can start before anyone is committed.
Non-binding · no cost
Then, only if you want to
The Conditional Purchase Agreement
This is the one with terms. An agreed price, exclusivity for a defined period, the commission, the ownership structure, and the conditions that have to be met before anything completes — enough co-owners, the shareholders’ agreement signed, due diligence done.
It names the advisors on both sides and who pays for what. If the transaction is not completed within the period, it expires by itself: no termination fee, no penalty, no tail.
Binding · time-limited · expires on its own
We are happy to send a specimen of either document, with the commercial terms removed, before you commit to anything. Ask, and it comes by email the same day.
For partners
Agents, and the specialists around a home
Homebase is the agents, architects, builders, property managers, lawyers and finance people who already do this work here — and the systems that let us work as one.
Agents and agencies
Two ways to work with us: inside the model as an Agent Partner, or under your own brand as a Collaboration Partner. Your name on every listing you bring, and the economics set out in the open.
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Lawyers, tax advisors and specialists
Every buyer here is a Spanish transaction and a home-country tax position at the same time. We are looking for advisors who know Spain and one other country properly. You appear under your own name and bill your client directly.
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