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Marco Lohmann at a café table in Mallorca

Palma de Mallorca · Estate agent

Behind every property lies a story.

I tell it to you in full, including the parts the brochure leaves out. For years I checked other agents’ listings on behalf of buyers. Today I am the one selling, and my properties go through the same check first. Only then do we talk about the price.

View properties How I work
0 Years in the property market My own firm since 2018, first in Germany, now in Mallorca. A long time on the buyer’s side.
0 Languages German, English, Spanish, Catalan. With you and with the other side.
€0 Extra cost for buyers Nothing beyond the purchase price. Who pays me is set down beforehand on the Role Sheet.
0 Documents with a date Every paper named with its date, including the missing one. Set out for every property.

01 — Properties

Properties with an open file.

A brochure shows what a house promises. Here you see what it can prove: which documents are in hand, the date of each and which are still missing. That is where things stand, and you check it before you ring me. Alongside, the kinds of houses I am currently looking for on behalf of my clients.

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On every property page

Ask the house.

On every property page sits a digital adviser with the file for that house open in front of it. Ask it whether the certificate of habitability, the Cédula, is in hand, and it gives you the date. Ask it what is missing, and it tells you. Even when the answer does not speak in favour of the house.

It answers only from the checked documents, in your language. What is not in them it does not invent; it passes the question on to me. So you do not have to take my word for what is on file. You look it up for yourself, on a Sunday evening if you like, instead of chasing by telephone on Monday.

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  • Is the Cédula in hand, and when is it from?
  • Which document is still missing for this house?
  • Is there a licence for holiday letting?
  • What does the Nota simple say about charges?

Answered from the file, with a date

Search request — off-market

Some houses never reach a portal.

Many owners in Mallorca do not want their house to appear on portals. You only hear about such properties through a search request: you tell me once what you are looking for. If something matches, I get in touch, by e-mail or WhatsApp, free of charge and without obligation. No account, no password, revocable at any time.

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    What it isYou describe once what you are looking for: area, type of property, budget, wishes. From that I set up a search profile and check every new mandate against it.
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    Off-marketHouses that are not meant to appear on portals I offer only to those whose search request matches. There is no other way to hear about them.
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    What it costsNothing. Buyers pay no additional fee with me, and that applies here too.
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    How I get in touchBy e-mail or WhatsApp, as you prefer. Only when something matches. No newsletter.
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    What it is notNo account, no password, no sale of your data. You can revoke at any time, for example by replying to the confirmation.
How I reach you
How may I contact you?
What you are looking for
Type of property, several possible
Buy or rent
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The film — two minutes

What a house can prove.

“A brochure shows what a house promises. I tell you what it can prove.” Two minutes on the method behind every property on this site.

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02 — How I work

Paperwork becomes a story.

What I spent years checking as an adviser to buyers is now the way I work. It consists of three building blocks, and all three are open on this page before we have even met. You can see at any time which paper is missing, whose move it is and what comes next.

This is what your file looks like
A terrace table above the sea with a tablet and a cup of espresso
01

The House File

For sellers

You bought years ago, the folder has grown since, and somewhere a sheet is missing. Seven questions about your house, no registration, and from them a finite list. Fourteen sheets, say: six you have at home, three I fetch, five have to be applied for. What takes longest depends on the house, so that is where we start, not with the brochure. You photograph your folder; I sort the rest. Every sheet gets its date. It is the same date your buyer will later see on the property page.

  • Nota simple
  • Cédula
  • Energy certificate
  • IBI
  • Community of owners
Start your House File in seven questions
A notebook with a checklist, a passport and coffee on a terrace overlooking the sea
02

Ready to Buy

For buyers

The house is found, the deposit contract is on the table, and then the tax number, the bank account and the power of attorney are missing while the deadline runs. As an adviser I saw where purchases stall: rarely on the house, usually on the preparation. That is why, with me, it comes before the first viewing. Eight questions, no registration, and you know in one sentence what is still holding you up. Plus six cards that explain what you need, when and what for, from the NIE number, your Spanish tax number, to the interpreter.

  • NIE number
  • Bank account
  • Lawyer
  • Form of purchase
  • Power of attorney
  • Interpreter
Check you are ready to buy in eight questions
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03

The Role Sheet

For both sides

Who actually pays you? Buyers are right to ask me that, and the answer belongs on paper. I see the estate agent in the German tradition: as an independent intermediary who, in the end, advises both sides properly. So that you do not have to guess whose side I am on in your case, there is one sheet before the first viewing: who I work for, who pays me, how much and when. Plus two lists of equal length, what I do and what I do not do. Filled in, printed out, signed by both.

  • Mandate
  • Fee
  • Limits
Read the Role Sheet

03 — My access

Your file. Look it up instead of asking.

As soon as we work together, you get your own protected area. Everything to do with your purchase or sale is kept there: every document with its date, every open task, where things stand. You see the same as I do, whenever you like, in the evening from abroad if need be. You do not have to ring me to find out where things are stuck. The area runs on newways.suite, software I developed myself. So I know what happens in it, down to the last line.

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    Upload documentsA photo of the folder is enough. The sorting is my job, not yours.
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    See where things stand at any timeWhich paper is in hand, which is missing, whose move it is. Without a phone call.
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    Sign with a tickRead the document at your leisure, accept it, receive a receipt. Without your tick, nothing is accepted.
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    In your languageGerman, English or Spanish. Set once, it applies to everything.
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Marco Lohmann, estate agent in Palma de Mallorca
A terrace table above the sea with a tablet, a cup of espresso and a pair of sunglasses

Marco LohmannEstate agent, Mallorca

04 — About Marco

Checked first. Then sold.

“For years I put other agents’ listings through their paces on behalf of buyers. Today I begin with my own.”

I have known the island since childhood, and I have followed the property market here for fifteen years. In 2018, after my years in the agency business, I founded my own property firm in Germany; for some years now I have lived and worked in Mallorca. Many of those years on the buyers’ side: I put other agents’ listings through their paces, supported clients in negotiations and also advised them against buying when the house, or their own situation, did not justify it.

Since I began acting as an estate agent myself, nothing has changed about the check, only the order: it now begins with my own properties. You do not have to take my word for that. For every property above, it states which paper is in hand, from when, and which is missing.

Add to that twenty years in the agency business. In Palma I run the agency newways.consulting, and with newways.suite I built the software in which your file is kept. I put this twofold expertise to work for you: anyone marketing a house or a development gets more than an estate agent from me; they get someone who also thinks about brand, presentation, sales and pricing strategy. I treat every engagement as a project, with a beginning, an end and a list in between. For legal and tax questions I work with lawyers and Gestorías on the island, the Spanish offices for dealings with the authorities and tax matters. What I am not permitted to answer, they answer.

05 — Testimonials

Three clients, in their own words.

Three responses from the years 2019 to 2024, quoted word for word. Nothing appears here that was not written to me in exactly these words.

★★★★★
“Mr Lohmann not only saw me through to the handover, he also guided the entire sale superbly.”
Maximilian Schmälzer
★★★★★
“A great deal of patience with us and a first-class result. Thank you.”
The Korf family
★★★★★
“Thank you for the successful completion in Palma. We now watch the sun rise over the sea every morning.”
Michael and Anna W.

06 — Frequently asked questions

What buyers and sellers ask first.

Short answers to what comes up at the start of every conversation, the question of my role first. For anything further, ask the adviser at the bottom right, or ask me directly.

You spent years as an adviser on the buyer’s side. Now you are an estate agent yourself. What has changed?

The role, not the method. As an adviser I put other agents’ listings through their paces on behalf of buyers and named what was missing. Exactly that check now runs before a property comes onto my books. The difference: back then, only the buyer who knew me got my check. Today it is open to view for every property, with a date, gaps included.

And the role is in writing. I see the estate agent in the German tradition, as an independent intermediary who advises both sides properly. The Role Sheet states, before the first viewing, who I am working for in your case and who pays me. If I am working for the seller, it says so there. Then you know, instead of having to guess.

Who actually pays you, and what does that cost me as a buyer?

For buyers there are no extra costs on top of the purchase price. That was true when I accompanied buyers as an independent adviser, and it is just as true today.

Who pays me, how much and when is set down in writing on the Role Sheet before the first viewing, together with two lists of equal length: what I do and what I do not do. Both sides sign it. You can read the blank sheet now, above under “How I work”. Filled in, it will be on the table later.

I do not understand the Spanish documents. How am I supposed to decide?

You do not need any Spanish to see what is in hand and what is missing. Take the Nota simple, the extract from the Spanish land registry. It shows who owns the property, how it is officially described and which charges are noted against it, such as mortgages or rights of way. With me, the date is given alongside, because the extract only shows the day on which it was retrieved. It should never be more than a few weeks old. For my properties you can see its date, and whether a new one has been requested.

The adviser on every property page explains, in your language, what a paper means and what it is for. What it does not know, it tells you, and passes the question on to me. Whether a house is legally in order is, in the end, for your lawyer to check. For the appointment at the notary I recommend a lawyer who speaks German and Spanish; I have one in my network. When you need one, and when you need an interpreter at the notary, is explained on two of the six Ready to Buy cards.

Which documents do I need to sell in Mallorca?

That depends on the house. Almost always among them: the land registry extract (Nota simple), the certificate of habitability (Cédula de habitabilidad), the energy performance certificate, the latest property tax bill (IBI), for flats the minutes of the community of owners and a certificate that the community fees are paid, building permits for anything that has been added on, and, for holiday letting, the ETV licence, the permission to let to holidaymakers.

Some of it you have at home, some I fetch, the rest is applied for. What takes longest depends on the house, so that is where we start, not with the brochure. A well-advised buyer asks for every one of these papers. I know, because for years I was that adviser. The House File tells you after seven questions which ones apply to your house.

How long does a purchase in Mallorca take, and where does it usually get stuck?

From the decision to the appointment at the notary, usually two to four months; if all the documents are in hand, it can be quicker. The time is rarely lost on the house but on the buyer’s preparation. First and foremost the NIE number, the Spanish tax identification number for foreigners: without it, no purchase deed can be notarised and no transfer tax declared. It is applied for at a Spanish authority or through a consulate, and the waiting time for an appointment varies a great deal.

Add to that the Spanish bank account and, if you do not want to travel over for every appointment, a power of attorney. If you deal with this before the search, you will not lose weeks later from the deadline in the deposit contract. Ready to Buy tells you in eight questions where you stand.

What costs come on top of the purchase price?

Property transfer tax, the notary, land registry fees and usually a lawyer. In the Balearics the transfer tax is tiered and depends on the purchase price. When buying from a developer, VAT and stamp duty apply instead.

The rates are set out in law. The binding figure for your case comes from a lawyer or a Gestoría, a Spanish office for tax and dealings with the authorities. I can put you in touch with both before you make an offer.

What does off-market mean, and how do I hear about such properties?

Off-market means: not offered publicly. Many owners in Mallorca do not want their house to appear on portals, with photos, price and location visible to everyone. Such properties are shown only to those whose search matches.

You therefore only hear about them through a search request. You describe once what you are looking for; if something matches, I get in touch, by e-mail or WhatsApp, free of charge and without obligation. No account, no password, revocable at any time. The form is further up under Search request.

Is your question not here?

Then ask the adviser. It knows how things are done in Mallorca and explains what each document is for. For anything personal, it passes you on to me.

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07 — Contact

Tell me your story.

Whether you want to buy, to sell or simply to find out where you stand. The first conversation costs nothing, takes half an hour and is held in Palma or by video, in your language. You do not have to sign anything or bring anything but your questions. What follows, depending on your situation, is a first assessment of value, an approach to the sale or a check of your documents. If you are looking, I listen first, until I have understood what you are really looking for. And if the honest answer is: not yet, then I say that too.

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