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Moving and working in Majorca

Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2021 9:47pm
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Mark52

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Hi I am looking to buy a property in Majorca around Santa ponsa area and appreciate prices are high so don’t mind being outside that area in a 30 mile radius but would also need to work . I have part owned a National cleaning company and currently the retail operations Director for another National cleaning company and have 27 years experience but had enough of the UK and was wondering if anyone had any advice please. 

Kind Regards 

Mark 

Hotoneinspain

Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2021 10:02pm

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Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2021 10:02pm

Mark52 wrote on Wed Sep 22, 2021 9:47pm:

Hi I am looking to buy a property in Majorca around Santa ponsa area and appreciate prices are high so don’t mind being outside that area in a 30 mile radius but would also need to work . I have part owned a National cleaning company and currently the retail operations Director for another Nati...

...onal cleaning company and have 27 years experience but had enough of the UK and was wondering if anyone had any advice please. 

Kind Regards 

Mark 

Mark having lived in Mallorca for 22 years. in the south west indeed my own business was in Santa Ponsa.

I might just mention...your is a highly competitive business almost every single estate agent and especially high end estate agencies offer or own a ..property service company usually of the best standard around...

Then there are a number of. Property Services companies..at all levels...but usually high end too...

Then there are a number of cleaning companies... usually private owned who emply maybe 4 or 5 ladies and run them around going house to house.

. and then there are the sole cleaners male and female who do maybe 3 or 4 or 5 properties a week ... 

After this...there are a number many in fact.. Ladies who ...Just do a bit of cleaning.!!

Really this market is well covered if not saturated

Just saying... The nissue with Mallorca ia while its a good place to open a business...everything you can think of...is already being done..."new Ideas that >People want..." is like searching for the smallest star in the sky 

Mark52

Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2021 10:30pm

Mark52

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Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2021 10:30pm

Hotoneinspain wrote on Wed Sep 22, 2021 10:02pm:

Mark having lived in Mallorca for 22 years. in the south west indeed my own business was in Santa Ponsa.

I might just mention...your is a highly competitive business almost every single estate agent and especially high end estate agencies offer or own a ..property service company usually of the best standard around......

...

Then there are a number of. Property Services companies..at all levels...but usually high end too...

Then there are a number of cleaning companies... usually private owned who emply maybe 4 or 5 ladies and run them around going house to house.

. and then there are the sole cleaners male and female who do maybe 3 or 4 or 5 properties a week ... 

After this...there are a number many in fact.. Ladies who ...Just do a bit of cleaning.!!

Really this market is well covered if not saturated

Just saying... The nissue with Mallorca ia while its a good place to open a business...everything you can think of...is already being done..."new Ideas that >People want..." is like searching for the smallest star in the sky 

Thanks for the information it’s appreciated but perhaps my message was somewhat misleading! Want I want to do is buy a property/ apartment in the area outright and work for someone within that industry or another. I’ve had and have the 6 figure salary along with two x wife’s and also a very grateful  member of AA but had enough of the UK and looking to relocate and was wondering if anybody knew of some employment and property purchases.

Hotoneinspain

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 12:04am

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Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 12:04am

Mark52 wrote on Wed Sep 22, 2021 10:30pm:

Thanks for the information it’s appreciated but perhaps my message was somewhat misleading! Want I want to do is buy a property/ apartment in the area outright and work for someone within that industry or another. I’ve had and have the 6 figure salary along with two x wife’s and also a very...

... grateful  member of AA but had enough of the UK and looking to relocate and was wondering if anybody knew of some employment and property purchases.

Aghh OK... 

Well, Mallorca is an amazing Island to live and earn good money...quite different to the mainland of Spain..

One question...how or perhaps why are you on THIS chat forum? if your plans are to relocate to Mallorca? 

You may or may not be aware. The cost of living...property taxes. Indeed living in general is very high in Mallorca.. Of the three main Island ..Mallorca is the most expensive .. .and as one German estates agent told me.. (and he was serious) a shade cheaper than Monte Carlo.

I believe Barcelona is now a little more expensive than Mallorca is...at least the City is. But Salary's are higher?

I knew that once I wanted to stop work and kick back ...my money was not going to last me long... even by downsizing... For me moving to the mainland was the only option of staying in Spain and having a good standard of living...with no need to downsize.

IF you can find employment in Mallorca...to cover your living costs...and a little extra to...your doing OK... There was a time I'd have said...

IF you can sell...

Apply to the yacht industry for a job as a yacht broker...But now even they are struggling...which I'm sure will pass sooner rather than later... If this appeals? Start at the top.... Camper and Nicholson's in Palma.

The only other way to make big incomes would be in Property Sales...again highly competitive and these days you need at least 2 Languages other than English, German and Russian.   

BUT, you know what... I'm a huge believer in  " just doing it "... and follow your heart. If you want it...You'll make it work for you.

That's what I did in 1999, everyone said I was crazy...giving up what I had...and financially It perhaps wasn't my best decision ...BUT there is more to life and my life over there was really good. 

Like you, I had the UK Lifestyle and while on paper I had it all.. I hated my life and I really needed to change...& I mean everything !.... 

I'm someone who...doesn't do regrets generally ...BUT Honestly; I have never regretted one day of my decision. Oh and there are really good AA meetings all over the S/W of Mallorca.

BUT, when the time comes to stop work ...Leave. Be brave and leave Mallorca. 

Move over to the mainland somewhere....Thats all.

Mark52

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 12:22am

Mark52

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Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 12:22am

Thanks so much for your message,I would love to talk more to you off line just to see if my financial position and work abilities would fit somewhere in Majorca 

it’s great to be able to follow ones dream but also sensible 

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Doris

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 11:24am

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Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 11:24am

Hotoneinspain wrote on Thu Sep 23, 2021 12:04am:

Aghh OK... 

Well, Mallorca is an amazing Island to live and earn good money...quite different to the mainland of Spain..

One question...how or perhaps why are you on THIS chat forum? if your plans are to relocate to Mallorca? 

You may or may not be aware. The cost of living...property taxes. Indeed living in general is very high in Mallorca.. Of the three main Island ..Mallorca is the most expensive .. .and as one German estates agent told me.. (and he was serious) a shade cheaper than Monte Carlo.

I believe Barcelona is now a little more expensive than Mallorca is...at least the City is. But Salary's are higher?

I knew that once I wanted to stop work and kick back ...my money was not going to last me long... even by downsizing... For me moving to the mainland was the only option of staying in Spain and having a good standard of living...with no need to downsize.

IF you can find employment in Mallorca...to cover your living costs...and a little extra to...your doing OK... There was a time I'd have said...

IF you can sell...

Apply to the yacht industry for a job as a yacht broker...But now even they are struggling...which I'm sure will pass sooner rather than later... If this appeals? Start at the top.... Camper and Nicholson's in Palma.

The only other way to make big incomes would be in Property Sales...again highly competitive and these days you need at least 2 Languages other than English, German and Russian.   

BUT, you know what... I'm a huge believer in  " just doing it "... and follow your heart. If you want it...You'll make it work for you.

That's what I did in 1999, everyone said I was crazy...giving up what I had...and financially It perhaps wasn't my best decision ...BUT there is more to life and my life over there was really good. 

Like you, I had the UK Lifestyle and while on paper I had it all.. I hated my life and I really needed to change...& I mean everything !.... 

I'm someone who...doesn't do regrets generally ...BUT Honestly; I have never regretted one day of my decision. Oh and there are really good AA meetings all over the S/W of Mallorca.

BUT, when the time comes to stop work ...Leave. Be brave and leave Mallorca. 

Move over to the mainland somewhere....Thats all.

Most of what you say is true. I also lived in/on Mallorca for 20 years and it’s true that the cost of everything is higher than mainland. But given the chance I would be back there in an instance. But, we only rent ant the cost of rentals, even small studios is astronomical. But the island is beautiful and I’m have to say, much prettier than mainland. More greenery, nicer beaches, a lot less windy and much more (in my opinion) I don’t dislike the mainland, but there is always somewhere better than somewhere else and my favourite place was the Calvia area of Santa ponca and  magalluf. As I say, only cost prevents us returning. 

hartcjhart

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 8:23pm

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Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 8:23pm

Mark52 wrote on Thu Sep 23, 2021 12:22am:

Thanks so much for your message,I would love to talk more to you off line just to see if my financial position and work abilities would fit somewhere in Majorca 

it’s great to be able to follow ones dream but also sensible 

Mark, I cannot help with your quest BUT I would suggest removing your number and sending it by PM,'search bots are all over the place looking for things like that'

Ray 1989

Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2021 5:30pm

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Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2021 5:30pm

Mark, Are you getting mixed up with Majorca and Mojacar. On a couple of occasions when I have mentioned Mojacar

to someone, they have replied " Yes, I have been to Majorca several times ".  Cheers, Ray.

Doris

Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2021 4:37pm

Doris

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Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2021 4:37pm

NO, he isn’t getting mixed up. He mentions Santa Ponsa, which is in Mallorca. Nowhere in this thread can I find the word ‘Mojacar’. 

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