For Developers and Investors in Mallorca
When the property is a project rather than a home, the things that matter change: a scope that can be repeated, a programme that holds, and a finish level chosen for whoever comes next. Describe the property and what you intend to do with it, and we pass the request to renovation and building companies that work to that kind of brief.
Predictability is worth more than the lowest number
On a home the budget can move a little. On a project the budget is the thing the project is, so the useful question stops being what the work costs and becomes how confident anybody can be in what the work costs. A quote with three unpriced assumptions in it is a worse quote than a higher one with none.
That points at how the job is investigated rather than at how it is priced. Opening up a sample of the property before the scope is fixed, establishing what is structural rather than assuming, and pricing the services as replaced rather than as retained are all ways of buying certainty early with money that would otherwise be spent late and unplanned.
The other difference is the finish. A property being sold or let is specified for durability and for a broad taste rather than for a particular one, and the companies used to that work will say so plainly if you ask them. A finish chosen for its owner and a finish chosen for a market are different specifications at similar cost, and choosing the wrong one is expensive in a way no quote shows.
What tends to matter on a project rather than a home
- A scope written tightly enough that two companies price the same thing
- Investigation before the scope is fixed, not after
- A programme with named dates and a stated consequence for missing them
- Payment staged against progress rather than against the calendar
- A specification that can be repeated on the next property
- Materials with supply that will still exist in six months
- A finish level chosen for a buyer or a tenant
- Documentation and installation certificates kept as they are issued
- Phasing where several units are being taken on at once
- Somebody responsible for the technical side from the beginning
How a project of this kind is usually set up
The order matters most at the front, where the cheapest decisions live.
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Establish what the property is
Structure, services and condition, investigated rather than assumed. This is the step that decides whether the rest of the numbers mean anything.
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Fix the specification
Write it once, in enough detail to be repeated. A specification you can hand to a second property is worth the time it takes to write the first.
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Price it properly, several times over
Same document to every company. On a project the spread between quotes is information about how each one has read the risk.
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Agree the programme and the reporting
Dates, stages, and what you are told and when. A programme nobody reports against is a wish.
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Hold the scope during the work
Changes made after the strip out are the expensive kind, because they undo work already paid for. On a project they also move the date, which usually costs more than the change.
The scopes this usually means
Complete refurbishment
How your request reaches a company
Mallorca Renovation is a comparison service. A request for a renovation project goes to the renovation and building companies on our list; they quote the work and carry it out, and any agreement is between you and the company you pick.
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Describe the job
Tell us the property, roughly what you want and where it is. Photographs and a rough plan help, though neither is required.
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We match it
The request goes to companies that work in your area and take on this kind of job at this size.
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They quote you
Each company contacts you directly with its own price, timing and approach. We do not set any of it.
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You compare and choose
Put the quotes side by side and take the one you want, or none of them. Using the site costs you nothing.
Can the same company take on several properties?
Many can, and there is a real advantage in it once a specification exists: the second property is quicker to price and quicker to build than the first. Ask about capacity honestly, because a company running three of your projects at once is a different proposition from one running its first.
How is the programme actually held?
By what is agreed before work starts. Named stages, a reporting interval, and a written position on what happens when a date moves. None of that is unusual to ask for and all of it is hard to introduce halfway through.
Is it worth opening up the property before pricing?
On older property, almost always. The cost of a sample opening is small and the cost of discovering the same thing after the scope is fixed is not. It also gives every company the same information, which is what makes the quotes comparable.
What finish level should a rental property have?
Durable rather than delicate, and neutral rather than particular. The specific answer depends on what the property is for and is worth putting to the companies quoting it, since they have seen what survives a season and what does not.
Get project quotes you can compare
Describe the property and the specification once, and let several companies price the same document.