Property lawyer in Ibiza for buying and selling with confidence

What a property lawyer does for you in Ibiza

A purchase in Ibiza involves the estate agent, the seller, the notary, the Land Registry, the tax office, the town hall, the Consell d'Eivissa and, often, a bank. None of them represents you. The agent is usually paid by the seller on completion and the notary is a neutral public official. Your lawyer is the only professional whose job is to protect you and connect all the pieces.

Stage	What we do	Why it matters
Before the offer	Land Registry extract, Cadastre, listing review	Confirms who owns the property and what is registered
Reservation	Review or draft the reservation document	Keeps the fee refundable if checks fail
Due diligence	Licences, rustic land, coast, debts, community, rental licence	Finds illegal works and hidden debts before you commit
Arras contract	Negotiate conditions, deadlines and retentions	Protects your 10% deposit
Preparation	NIE, bank account, power of attorney, mortgage review	Lets you buy remotely and on time
Completion	Check the deed, attend the notary, control payments	You pay only against a clean title
Afterwards	Transfer tax, Land Registry, utilities, IBI	The property is registered and fully in your name

Every type of property in Ibiza

• Villas and fincas: rustic land category, licences for every building, pools, wells, cisterns, septic systems and access. See buying a villa or finca in Ibiza.
• Apartments and townhouses: community of owners, debts, levies and the ban on holiday rentals in apartments. See buying an apartment in Ibiza.
• Coastal homes: public domain, easements and what can be renovated. See coastal property in Ibiza.
• New builds and off-plan: licences, bank guarantees and delivery. See new builds in Ibiza.
• Plots: whether and what you can build, under the island plan and the municipal rules. See our planning lawyers.
• Businesses and commercial property: restaurants, beach clubs, shops and hotels. See commercial property in Ibiza.

Due diligence that fits Ibiza

In Ibiza the gap between what is advertised and what is legal can be large. We compare the Land Registry, the Cadastre, the town hall planning file and the property itself, check the island plan and the rules of the municipality, and confirm whether any tourist rental licence exists and what it covers. Everything goes into a written report with clear options. See legal due diligence in Ibiza.

Contracts that protect your deposit

We rewrite the reservation and the arras contract around your position: refund of the deposit if due diligence or the mortgage fails, a realistic completion date, retentions for debts and for the non-resident tax if the seller lives abroad, and seller warranties on licences. See arras contract review.

Selling property in Ibiza

We also act for sellers: preparing the documents buyers will ask for, negotiating the arras contract, cancelling mortgages, calculating capital gains and the municipal plusvalía, and recovering the 3% retention for non-residents. See selling property in Ibiza.

Buying without travelling

With a power of attorney signed in your country or at a Spanish consulate, we obtain your NIE, open the bank account if needed, sign the contracts and complete at the notary on your behalf. See NIE and power of attorney. For the full process, read our guide to buying property in Ibiza and the purchase costs and taxes.

Ibiza.law is the Ibiza practice of Castell.law, with more than twenty years of experience advising international clients on Balearic property.