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BALEARICS


The Butterfi elds’ villa is for sale for £2.95m through Hamptons (hamptons.co.uk)


Three-bed bungalow in Addaia with pool and full furnishings, €350,000 (hamptons.co.uk)


Four-bed, two-bath villa at Cala Llonga, €690,000 through Hamptons


Three-bed, three-bath villa at Cala Llonga for sale for €690,755 through Hamptons


“Last year, of 214 sales, the average price was €243,000 — 63 of which were bank repossessions, and the largest group of purchasers by nationality were the Spanish and British.”


A 60m2 one-bed apartment at Son Parc for €89,930, through Hamptons.


I take a deep sigh. It’s nothing like Mallorca or Ibiza,” says Sharon Butterfi eld, 62, whose fi ve-bed holiday home is on the market with Hamptons International for £2.95 million (pictured above, top leſt ). “T e only problem is that it is seasonal —


there are not enough fl ights in the winter. Guests want to stay in our home [let out for £5,000 per week], but they cannot get here.” T e relative lack of direct fl ights is a minor


downside for Menorca — but, that said, Monarch, Ryanair, Flythomascook, T omson, Jet2, EasyJet and BA CityFlyer run fl ights in the summer. Of course, you can also get the ferry


from Mallorca (one hour) or from Barcelona (3½ hours) or arrive by yacht like many, or even private aircraſt (as our property hunter, on page 29, wants to do).


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Two-bed apartments in Addaia cost €150,000 through Hamptons


Menorca has its fair share of celebrity


owners — actor, comedian and author Robbie Coltrane and Griff Rhys Jones, John Baldwin of Led Zeppelin and the Branson family — who tend to like the anonymity of the island. T e British market is dominated by two sectors, “the grey pound and 2.2 children”, says Hamptons International’s affi liate in Menorca, Colin Guanaria (hamptons.co.uk/international). Colin has been living on the island since


1973, running its most successful estate agency, Bonnin Sanso — newly affi liated with Hamptons — and while the market is slower than it once was, he still managed to do plenty of business last year. “Last year, of 214 sales, the average


price was €243,000 [£208,500], 63 of which were bank repossessions.


T e largest group of purchasers were the Spanish and British,” he says. “Two-bed apartments and three-bed villas


are my bread and butter, but there are 3,500 properties for sale on the island, and if you’re a seller you’ve got to be priced right to get an off er,” he adds. So there’s plenty of choice, depending on


your budget and tastes — there are even two islands off Menorca for sale (for €4 million and €6 million apiece). In Cala Llonga, a property sold in


April for €4 million, but you can also get a detached three- or four-bed villa with a pool and great views for around €690,000 (there are two pictured centre leſt ) that were worth around €995,000 at the market peak. Moving away from this exclusive hub, you can get more for your money: in Addaia, an


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