Removals to Mallorca

A move to Mallorca is not a single journey. Your home travels overland to mainland Spain, crosses to Palma by ferry, and clears Spanish customs before it reaches your door, and since Brexit that final part carries paperwork it did not used to. Williams & Yates manages the whole of it for high-value households moving to the island, and for the PAs and household managers who arrange these moves on their behalf. Known in English as Majorca, the island holds a long-settled British community across Palma, the southwest coast and the north. This page sets out the practical side of getting a home there, and how we take it off your hands.

Mallorca’s prime residential areas each bring their own delivery considerations, and part of planning a move here is knowing them before the day rather than on it.

• Son Vida, the established villa and golf enclave above Palma, sits behind private roads and gated access that need arranging ahead of delivery.
• Port d’Andratx and the southwest, taking in Andratx, Camp de Mar and Santa Ponsa, is a belt of marina-side and hillside homes, often on steep or narrow approaches.
• Deià, Valldemossa and the Tramuntana north coast are reached by narrow mountain roads and tight village streets that a full-size removals vehicle cannot always enter, so a smaller shuttle vehicle may run the final leg.
• Pollensa and Port de Pollensa in the north are long popular with British families and mix town-centre and rural finca addresses.
• Palma old town has restricted-access and pedestrianised streets where larger vehicles need permits and timed access.

Your coordinator plans the final delivery around the access at your specific address, whether that means arranging estate clearance, a permit for a restricted street, or a shuttle vehicle for a mountain village. The point is that the day itself is calm and planned, not improvised at the gate. The same team handles moves across the wider Balearics, including our removals to Ibiza.

Since Brexit, household goods moving from the UK to Mallorca cross an EU customs border and are treated as an import into Spain. If you are relocating your main residence, you may qualify for Spain’s Transfer of Residence relief, known as franquicia por traslado de residencia, which allows used household goods and personal effects to enter free of Spanish import duty and VAT, subject to the conditions set by AEAT, Spain’s tax authority.

The relief covers your personal household goods, furniture and personal effects. It does not cover items bought recently or held for resale. To qualify you must be transferring your habitual residence to Spain, must have been habitually resident outside the EU for at least twelve consecutive months before the move, and the goods must have been owned and in personal use for at least six months. Your coordinator advises on eligibility as part of the plan, and you can read more in our guide to Transfer of Residence relief.

Timing is the part people underestimate. Your NIE, the Numero de Identidad de Extranjero, is your Spanish foreigner identification number, and it is needed to clear your goods. If your consignment reaches Palma before your NIE is in place, your belongings can be held in bonded storage at your cost, so your coordinator keeps your consignment and your paperwork in step from the survey onward. The documentation typically includes your passport, your residency documentation, your NIE once issued, a detailed itemised inventory that we compile as we pack, and proof of your UK and Spanish addresses. Your coordinator will also advise on the empadronamiento, the municipal registration at your Spanish town hall that forms part of the customs paperwork. Balearic imports clear through Aduana Palma de Mallorca, and we coordinate the Spanish clearance and the local gestoria that handles it through an established in-country network, with your coordinator remaining your point of contact throughout.

Around the household itself, your coordinator handles the surrounding detail as part of the same service. Secure storage is available in the UK and on the island where a gap in dates calls for it, all-risks cover protects your consignment in transit and in storage, and for families relocating with pets we manage the post-Brexit requirements, including the official Animal Health Certificate, microchipping and rabies vaccination.

For vehicles, importing to Spain involves the ITV roadworthiness inspection and Spanish registration, and your coordinator advises on the requirements for your particular vehicle.

On arrival, our move-in assistance runs from unpacking and furniture placement to reinstating the pieces we dismantled. For relocations arranged by an employer, the same coordination extends through our business removals service.