Mallorca · Apartments and Communities
The legal, community and building checks international buyers should complete before purchasing a Mallorca apartment.
Confirm whether each element is privately owned, an annex to the apartment, common property for exclusive use or merely used informally. The legal classification affects control, maintenance and resale.
Minutes can reveal disputes, water ingress, lift works, façade repairs, rental restrictions, unpaid debts and planned assessments. Review several years where the building’s condition or project history warrants it.
Removing walls, enclosing terraces, altering façades or moving services may require community and municipal permission. Compare the current layout with authorised plans and investigate recent work.
The completion documents should include the appropriate community-debt position, while known assessments, defects or disputes should be allocated clearly in the private contract.
Community rules may restrict activities, while tourism law imposes separate requirements. Both positions must be checked.
The answer depends on timing, resolutions and the purchase contract. Address it expressly before signing.
No. It may be common property assigned for exclusive use, which creates different rights and maintenance obligations.
Have the title, community documents, alterations, debts and intended use checked before paying a deposit.