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New Build Apartment for Sale in Palma de Mallorca City Centre | Cor 39: 8
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EUR 6,745,000
Mallorca
Mallorca's property market, Mediterranean lifestyle and world renowned coastal living through expert local insights and carefully selected homes.
Mallorca is one of Europe's most prestigious property destinations, renowned for its stunning coastline, picturesque villages, vibrant capital and exceptional quality of life. From luxury seafront villas and contemporary apartments in Palma to historic fincas in the countryside and elegant homes in sought after towns such as Deia, Soller and Port d'Andratx, the island offers one of Spain's most diverse residential markets. Combining year round living, international connectivity and enduring global appeal, Mallorca continues to attract discerning buyers seeking both lifestyle and long term investment.
Mallorca's coastline means different things depending on where a buyer looks. In the south-west, Port d'Andratx itself is more cove and marina than open beach, while Bendinat and Portals Nous combine small sandy coves with beach-club culture. In the north, Port de Pollenca offers a long, gently shelving sandy bay looking toward the Formentor peninsula, and Alcudia has some of the island's longest sandy beaches alongside its own marina at Port d'Alcudia. In the south-east, the character shifts to coves rather than bays: Cala d'Or's Cala Gran, Cala Esmeralda and Cala Petita, and the quieter coves around Santanyi and Porto Petro, are sheltered, small-scale and largely free of high-rise development.
The Serra de Tramuntana, a UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape inscribed in 2011, runs around 90km along Mallorca's north-west coast, up to 15km wide, and covers roughly 30% of the island's land area across more than 20 municipalities. It is the defining natural backdrop for both the south-west's prime coastal zone and the north's Pollenca/Alcudia area, shaping a terraced, mountainous landscape with no real equivalent on the flatter Costa Blanca.
Mallorca carries genuine Michelin weight: the 2026 Michelin Guide lists 12 stars across 11 restaurants on the island, including VORO in Canyamel (the island's only two-star restaurant, chef Alvaro Salazar) and nine one-star kitchens, among them Marc Fosh and Zaranda, both in Palma's old town. Marc Fosh - the first British chef to win a Michelin star in Spain - cooks in a former convent-turned-hotel on Carrer de la Missio, squarely in the Casco Antiguo. This is a materially different dining landscape to the Costa Blanca towns covered elsewhere in this series, where Michelin recognition is far sparser.
The south-west's marina infrastructure anchors its luxury positioning: Port d'Andratx's Club de Vela has 475 berths for boats up to 36m, with a further seven superyacht moorings (up to 30m) under construction; Port Adriano, roughly halfway between Andratx and Palma and designed by Philippe Starck, takes superyachts up to 100m. Palma's old town offers a different kind of leisure entirely: the 14th-century Gothic La Seu cathedral, the boutique-hotel-lined lanes of Sa Portella, and the Passeig des Born's luxury shopping. Golf is well established island-wide - Mallorca has 24 courses, 21 open to visitors, including Son Vida (the island's oldest, opened 1964) near Palma and Golf de Andratx in the south-west.
Palma Airport's own AEMET weather station gives Mallorca genuinely primary climate data, unlike the smaller towns covered elsewhere in this series: an annual average of around 18C, a January average high of 15.7C, an August average high of 30.2C, and around 2,800 hours of sunshine a year. Villa architecture varies by zone - contemporary, sea-view design in the south-west's Port d'Andratx and Bendinat; restored stone townhouses in Palma's old town and the north's village centres; and lower-density cove-side properties in the south-east.
Mallorca remains one of Spain's strongest performing luxury property markets, supported by limited supply, sustained international demand and a reputation as one of the Mediterranean's premier lifestyle destinations. Property values have continued to appreciate across much of the island, particularly in prime coastal locations and established luxury markets where demand consistently outpaces supply.
The island offers a highly diverse residential landscape. Palma provides a cosmopolitan city market with renovated historic apartments, luxury penthouses and waterfront developments, while coastal destinations such as Port d'Andratx, Puerto Portals and Port Adriano are internationally recognised for their exclusive villas and superyacht marinas. Inland villages including Santa Maria del Cami, Alaro and Binissalem attract buyers seeking traditional fincas, vineyards and a more tranquil Mediterranean lifestyle.
Luxury property remains the defining feature of Mallorca's market. Contemporary villas with panoramic sea views, historic country estates and architect designed residences continue to command some of Spain's highest residential values. Strict planning controls, limited coastal development opportunities and consistently strong international demand have helped preserve the island's long term capital growth.
Mallorca attracts buyers from across Europe and beyond, with particularly strong demand from Germany, the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, Switzerland, France and the Benelux countries. Combined with excellent healthcare, international schools, year round flights and a thriving cultural and culinary scene, the island continues to appeal to permanent residents, second home buyers and investors seeking stability, exclusivity and exceptional lifestyle quality.
| Type | Average | YoY |
|---|---|---|
| apartments | EUR 5,350/m2 | +9.2% |
| houses | EUR 4,800/m2 | +9.2% |
| villas | EUR 6,250/m2 | +9.2% |
Yes - there is no legal ban or restriction on foreign buyers. A 2025 proposal to restrict non-resident and corporate purchases was debated and voted down by the Balearic parliament in early 2026, and any such restriction would also face significant EU free-movement-of-capital obstacles.
Sources genuinely disagree, and this pack treats that as a real range rather than picking one figure. Palma itself is around 5,167/m2 (Idealista, May 2026, a historic high); Engel & Volkers' island-wide index shows houses at 4,722.77/m2 and apartments at 5,191.90/m2 (June 2026); a separate Steinbeis Transfer Institute study puts the island-wide average notably higher, at 7,370/m2. Premium south-west zones run far higher again - Port d'Andratx and Costa d'en Blanes are both among Spain's 10 most expensive residential districts nationally, at 8,921/m2 and 9,677/m2 respectively (Idealista, December 2025).
It depends on the lifestyle sought, not which is objectively best. Port d'Andratx and the south-west suit buyers wanting marina life and the island's highest-value property; Palma's old town suits buyers wanting a walkable, urban base with genuine Michelin dining on the doorstep; Pollenca and Alcudia in the north suit buyers wanting long sandy bays and a quieter, more traditional pace.
Not automatically, and this is a genuinely important point for buyers with a rental-income plan. Since 2022 the Balearic government has held a moratorium on new short-term tourist rental (ETV) licences across most of the island, still in force in 2026 - so a property without an existing licence generally cannot be newly licensed, and the practical route into short-term letting is to buy a property that already holds one.
Yes, substantially, in its established prime zones. Six of Spain's ten most expensive residential districts nationally are in the Balearics, three of them on Mallorca - a different league to the Costa Blanca towns covered elsewhere on this site, where even the pricier North Costa Blanca towns run at roughly a third to a half of Port d'Andratx's per-m2 level.
Yes, for buyers wanting Mallorca's south-east rather than the south-west's marina-and-golf axis or Palma's urban core. Cala d'Or and its neighbours Santanyi and Porto Petro are built around sheltered coves - Cala Gran, Cala Esmeralda and Cala Petita among them - rather than long open beaches, and the area remains largely free of high-rise development. It's a lower-key, more traditional alternative to the established south-west prime zones covered elsewhere in this pack; this pack's south-west price data does not apply directly to the south-east.
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