The broad residential shortlist — contemporary, classic and traditional Ibiza houses suited to shoots, campaigns, retreats and private events. Town houses, country houses, farmhouses and coastal houses across Santa Gertrudis, Santa Eulalia, San José, San Antonio and Ibiza Town.
“House” is the broader word on Ibiza. It covers contemporary white-box architecture near San José, classic Ibicenco town houses in Dalt Vila, traditional sabina-beam farmhouses in the Santa Gertrudis countryside and the coastal houses perched above the Mediterranean in the north. Our villa page is the detached-with-grounds selection and our finca page is for the 300-year-old rural architecture. This is the general landing for producers, stylists and planners searching generically for a house in Ibiza — a deliberately wide net.
Lovely Locations is a production-first location agency in the Balearics, working across shoots, events and brand experiences. We know this residential landscape — the houses that photograph well, the owners open to a full buy-out versus a hosted stay, and how ETV licence status, capacity, parking and access vary from property to property. When a booking needs more than the address, we can take on the production around it. Start with a mood board and a date, and we’ll come back with a ranked, honest shortlist.
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Sleek, low-slung residential architecture — poured concrete, frameless glazing, minimal whitewash, outdoor kitchens and infinity pools. The Phoenician-modular blueprint rebuilt for a 2020s lens. Best for brand campaigns, resort editorial and quiet, architectural interior stories.
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Traditional Ibicenco country houses — thick whitewashed walls, sabina-wood beams, olive-tree terraces and stone courtyards. Typically renovated for contemporary living while keeping the original bones. The architectural register that shoots read as “real Ibiza” rather than rental-listing generic.
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Houses sited for the sea — cliffside properties near Cala Jondal and Cala Salada, direct beach access, west-facing sunset terraces and the kind of horizon line swimwear, resort and jewellery campaigns are built around. Includes the best of the north-coast panoramas above Cala Xarraca and San Juan.
Shoot & stay →Villa on Ibiza usually means detached-with-grounds-and-pool. “House” takes in town houses in Dalt Vila, farmhouses in Santa Gertrudis, cliffside contemporary and compact coastal properties. When the brief isn’t pool-first, the house shortlist delivers options the villa page doesn’t.
Santa Gertrudis for rural heritage, Santa Eulalia for family-scale houses, San José for contemporary architecture, San Antonio for west-coast sunset, Ibiza Town for urban texture. Everything sits inside a 30-minute transfer window from the airport — multi-house shoot days stay lean.
Since 2022 Ibiza has suspended new tourist-rental licences. We prioritise ETV-licensed houses (Estancia Turística en Viviendas) where the paperwork is current, liability insurance is in place and the producer isn’t later chasing a grey-market listing. We track licence status as part of the shortlist.
Most of our houses sleep six to twelve, with the larger fincas going to sixteen or twenty. That matches the usual shoot day — talent, key creatives, and a lean crew on buy-out — without the scale of a twenty-plus villa. Hosted stays are available for shorter, contained briefs.
Every house on the shortlist carries a usable working kitchen, most have open-kitchen islands suited to food and lifestyle shoots, and the overwhelming majority have a pool, terrace and garden. The residential-grade set-dressing means fewer art-department vans and quicker turnarounds.
Locations, permits, transfers, catering, crew accommodation and weather-alternative — handled as one engagement. The island is small enough that we can move a shoot between two houses on the same day if the light or the brief asks for it. One schedule, one point of contact.
The rental market on Ibiza blurs the three words, so it helps to be precise. A villa generally means a detached property with grounds and a private pool — usually purpose-built for rental, often recent, and the default word used by rental sites and concierges. A finca is the traditional Ibicenco country house — thick whitewashed walls, sabina-wood beams, inner courtyards — rural by definition and often centuries old before renovation. House is the general residential term that covers both of those and more: town houses in Dalt Vila and the port quarters, family homes in Santa Eulalia and San José, contemporary architect houses near Es Cubells, small coastal properties above Cala Salada. When producers search generically for houses Ibiza or location house Ibiza they usually mean this broader residential pool — which is what this shortlist gathers.
Ibiza’s residential geography sorts cleanly for a location brief. Santa Gertrudis is the rural heart — olive groves, country roads, heritage farmhouses and the highest density of renovated traditional houses on the island. Santa Eulalia (east coast) delivers family-scale houses, a calmer registry and good east-light for morning beach work. San José and the southwest — around Es Cubells, Cala Jondal, Cala d’Hort — is where contemporary white-box architecture clusters, with the Es Vedrà silhouette as frame. San Antonio on the west coast owns the sunset terrace. Ibiza Town delivers urban texture: Dalt Vila’s UNESCO-listed walls, Marina Botafoch’s design language and the port quarters. Transfer between any two is usually twenty to thirty minutes, so multi-location days are practical on a small island.
In February 2022 Ibiza suspended the issue of new tourist-rental licences and the suspension runs to 2026 while the island finalises carrying-capacity studies. Existing ETV-licensed houses (Estancia Turística en Viviendas) continue to trade and must be renewed on a five-year cycle; any new let-for-days property without an ETV licence is operating outside the framework. The regime caps licensed houses at six bedrooms and twelve guests, requires a valid cédula de habitabilidad and €300,000 liability cover, and only detached properties qualify — apartments are excluded. For a producer this means ETV status is a real filter: a shortlist of licensed houses avoids mid-shoot complications and lets you answer crew and talent accommodation questions cleanly on the shoot schedule.
Ibiza location houses range widely, so the right fit depends on the brief rather than a rule of thumb. The island works year-round: high-summer light, clear spring and autumn skies, and a quiet, clean winter that suits slow-fashion, resort forward-season and interior-architecture work all sit on the same calendar — so dates follow your brief rather than a fixed window. Full buy-out tends to be cleaner than a hosted stay for anything with a crew, and we can arrange either. Pricing is on request and varies by project and each location.
Send us the brief, the date window, crew size and the register you’re after — contemporary, heritage, coastal, or a mix. We come back with three to five Ibiza houses ranked against the brief, with honest notes on light direction, ceiling heights, kitchen flow, pool orientation, ETV licence status and adjacent exteriors. Pricing is on request and varies by project and location.
Three overlapping terms. Villa usually means detached-with-grounds-and-pool, often purpose-built for rental. Finca means a traditional Ibicenco country house — thick whitewashed walls, sabina beams, rural setting. House is the widest category: it includes both of the above and also Dalt Vila town houses, family homes in Santa Eulalia and San José, and smaller coastal properties. If your brief isn’t pool-first or isn’t specifically after a 300-year-old finca, the broader house shortlist is usually where the right property lives.
Most of our houses sleep six to twelve guests in four-to-six bedrooms, which matches the ETV licence cap (maximum twelve guests, six bedrooms for a licensed detached property). Larger fincas go to sixteen or twenty when multiple buildings are combined. For a shoot, the sleeping count is usually less important than the usable daytime capacity of the terrace, living rooms and kitchen — which we cross-check against your crew size and set plan before shortlisting.
Across the island’s five main residential zones. Santa Gertrudis for rural heritage farmhouses; Santa Eulalia for family-scale houses and east-coast morning light; San José for contemporary white-box architecture and the southwest coast; San Antonio for west-coast sunset terraces; Ibiza Town for Dalt Vila and Marina Botafoch urban texture. Transfers between any two sit inside a thirty-minute window, so we often build a shortlist that covers more than one zone for a single shoot day.
Rates vary too much with house, season and scope for a single figure to be useful. The main drivers are season, the scale and weight of the production, and the booking model (hosted stay versus full buy-out). Pricing is on request and varies by project and each location — we come back with specifics once we’ve seen the brief, and if a house doesn’t fit your budget we say so up front rather than shortlist it optimistically.
Both. Many owners offer either model. Buy-out — no other guests, full access, overnight set-up, freedom to move furniture — is the default we recommend for any shoot with a meaningful crew, a campaign, or a multi-set day. Hosted stays can work for short, contained briefs (a half-day lookbook in one room, a micro-influencer day, a compact podcast shoot) and for retreats where the owner’s presence is actively part of the experience. We flag each house’s preferred model in the shortlist.
Effectively all of our houses have a full working kitchen, most have an open-kitchen island well-suited to lifestyle and food shoots, and the overwhelming majority have a private pool plus a garden or terrace. Every property also supports overnight stay, so crew and talent can sleep on location through the shoot week if the budget prefers that to a separate hotel. We list kitchen spec, pool orientation, blackout quality of bedrooms and overnight capacity on every shortlist.
We prioritise ETV-licensed houses (Estancia Turística en Viviendas) — the current Ibiza framework for legal short-term rental — and we confirm status before shortlisting. Since 2022 the island has paused the issue of new ETV licences while it finalises carrying-capacity studies, so licensed inventory is a real filter. Each ETV house carries the required €300,000 minimum liability cover; we additionally recommend the production side carry shoot-specific insurance (public liability, equipment, talent) and we can introduce brokers who understand Ibiza productions.
