In recent years, many properties in the sought after residential areas of Mallorca have been refurbished by new owners.

It is important that the information about the purchase price, location, access and the building rights of the property is transmitted before the obligatory visit to the property. If the misgivings and doubts about buildability can not be completely dispelled, an architect who has been brought in will be of great help, since he usually knows everything about the development of land.

After a detailed preliminary discussion, you should let him hand over the printed construction law documents, as well as his interpretation of the buildability. In this context, one could ask him to illustrate by sketches the essential assignments of the building mass with access, view and sun areas. If the architect can then make concrete statements about the construction costs, then the package is complete and basis for a possible commissioning at a later date.

The existing building law on a property was issued by the respective municipality and is binding for all participants. The time of the Küngelei and the arbitrary interpretation of the building law by mayors and city architects in almost all communities is over, because the communities are legally and factually obliged to make the law for all the same, they are subject to the superior state rights. This sounds self-evident for Central and Northern Europeans, but for example, in Marbella, until almost a few years ago, through the free movement of the community, they were able to obtain almost any right to build. Mallorca is comparatively a model state today.

The previous arguments of the Spanish architects that they had good contacts and the building permit would be achieved without problems, was crucial for the client in the choice of the architect. Fortunately, architects today are more in need of design skills, service-friendliness, and planning-compliant design results.

The crucial question of all property owners willing to build, however, should be that after the buildability in connection with the construction law. Since usually the drafts of various architects worked out in the past for the many previous owners no longer exist and are seldom requested by the intermediary estate agents, usually no documents are available on the building feasibility. To make matters worse, today's construction law has changed in recent years in all municipalities and has also exacerbated.

Many forms of construction law of the different municipalities are in their actual form in their consequence to the property so different that many foundations in terms of ideas and wishes of the potential builders are not or very difficult to cultivate. Each property is to be built theoretically and factually, but with partial large reductions in terms of square meters. In Calvia, for example, parking spaces on the property must be taken into account, which greatly influences the square meters in terms of the actual development, ie living space, and therefore causes many projects to fail. So if you do not get informed in time, land can lose value after you buy it.

This means that you should compare not only the purchase criteria location and price, but primarily the buildability and the applied construction law. Many willing to build are desperate about the first draft results when they register that they have bought the wrong lot and have to make compromises again. This does not have to be.

The success of a finished house is not only the sum of all factors relevant to the construction, but first of all the uncompromising selection of the property and the knowledge of its building ability. Today there are many plots of second and third choice with prices of a 1ª plot. Who's next?