BALEARICS
Eight-bedroom luxury villa in Cala Llonga, with separate staff annex, £4.75m from AK International Estates (
akinternationalestates.com)
Five-bed, fi ve-bath seafront Minimalist villa in Cap d’en Font, Sant Lluis, €1.3m from Engel & Völkers (
engelvoelkers.com).
area popular with families a few minutes up the northern coast, there’s a three-bed bungalow for sale for €350,000 (pictured leſt , top right). With a well-kept pool and full furnishings,
this property is being sold by an elderly British couple who are likely to be open to an off er, suggests Colin.
Aff ordable apartments Alternatively, there’s a 57m2
two-bed
furnished apartment, with a terrace, for sale on a nice complex in Addaia (also known as Addaya) for €150,000 (pictured leſt , bottom right). You can get a two-bed resale apartment
on the Vista Marina (Taylor Wimpey) complex for around €140,000. Or, my favourite, there’s also a 42m2
one-bed apartment on a charming and quiet little complex next door to the nearby golf course of Son Parc, with a large roof terrace and great views for only €70,000. A 60m2
one-bed apartment costs €89,930
(pictured far leſt , bottom), that would rent for £450 per week in high season, and £300 in low season. “Apartments in this location have letting licences (do check this whenever you are buying an apartment in the Balearics), and rent really well,” Colin says, adding that 310,000 Brits take holidays in private rented properties each year in Menorca. If you want somewhere a bit bigger, and maybe more suited to year-round location,
there’s the option of living in a village a little inland, such as Trebaluger, south of Mahon.
Village life T e Platts from Huddersfi eld bought a four-bed villa there in 2007, and spend six months a year in Trebaluger. “We came on holiday and were
captivated,” says Jim, 65, who works in logistics. “We preferred a year-round place to a tourist resort, and we love it here: there’s a local pub quiz, and it’s got a lovely slow pace of life. “We’ve travelled a lot, but it was the fi rst
place we wanted to keep coming back to.” T e Platts have no intention of selling, but
there’s another well-maintained four-bed villa, with a large pool, for sale in the village for £346,489. While many semi-retired people
spend several months a year in Menorca, permanent relocation can be an “easy” transition if you don’t need to earn a living there (jobs are thin on the ground). T e key is fi nding a gap in the market in Menorca if you are to run a business.
The business end of things Lindsay Mullen and Sheelagh Ratliff run one of the most popular rural hotels on the island, Biniarroca (
biniarroca.com), and say that off ering something unique is the key. “Our hotel is successful because we have a niche market in the Menorcan hotel world.
We were the fi rst to target the sophisticated adult market [children are not allowed],” says Lindsay, whose art adorns the hotel’s walls. “We attract guests who wish to
buy property and stay two or three days, alongside guests enjoying a week or two’s holiday.” Meanwhile the Baillies from
Banstead in Surrey moved to Alaior 12 years ago, and have brought up
their children, aged 20, 17 and 9, in a quirky, converted period property, which in the late 19th century housed an organ. T ey paid £130,000 for the house,
which now has four bedrooms and three bathrooms. It comes with plenty of land, perfect for Jonathan’s day job as a gardener. “We chose Menorca because it’s a very
affl uent little island, and because lots of British people live here, and love their gardens,” says Jonathan, 56 (pictured above). “We don’t miss much about the UK.
T e heathcare has been great here [it is contributions-based], and our 17-year-old, who is studying tourism in Mahon, is trilingual.” Other areas of the island that are most
in demand are small villages without hotels and with close-to-virgin beaches, says Francisco Arnau Lopez of Engel & Völkers Menorca (
engelvoelkers.com). “Such beaches are Alcaufar, Cala
Mesquida, Cala San Esteban, Binisafua and Es Grau [pictured on page 63].” §
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