A full-service location agency for photo shoots, film productions, brand campaigns and private events across Mallorca — scouting, negotiation, permits, production-day management, and one dedicated contact from brief to wrap.
Lovely Locations is a working location agency in Mallorca. We represent more than a hundred vetted fincas, villas, design hotels, beach clubs and architect-led estates — and we run the production-day operation that turns a great address into a shoot that actually wraps on time.
Our clients are producers, creative directors, event planners and agencies who need Mallorca handled. We take a brief, return a curated shortlist, negotiate terms with the owner, confirm permits with the relevant ayuntamiento, manage the day with a local representative on-site, and settle the paperwork after wrap. One contact, one set of rates, no surprises.
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You brief, we shortlist. Three to five Mallorca locations inside 24 hours — availability-checked, with real photos, floor plans, capacity notes and honest pros and cons. You book direct or through us.
Scouting scope →
A Mallorca-based representative on-site for the full call sheet. Owner liaison, access, parking, neighbour diplomacy, noise and curfew windows, damage walkthrough before and after. You focus on the shoot; we keep the location happy.
On-day scope →
End-to-end: multi-location scouting, municipal film permits, AESA drone coordination, local crew, transport, accommodation, catering partners and on-set management. The service producers hire when they want Mallorca handed to them complete.
Full scope →Every represented location has been visited, photographed and load-tested by our team. We know which finca has three-phase power in the outbuilding, which villa’s driveway won’t take a 7.5-tonne truck, and which clastra holds the afternoon sun until seven.
Owners are pre-screened for shoot-readiness: insurance posture, neighbour relations, realistic pricing and a track record of honouring call sheets. You never arrive at a location that quietly forgot to tell the neighbours you were coming.
We handle the ayuntamiento filing — Palma, Calvià , Sóller, Pollença, Manacor — plus AESA drone applications when needed. Each municipality wants a different form, window and set of insurance proofs; we know which one.
A local rep in the owner’s language, familiar with the property’s quirks, removes the friction that kills shoot days. Neighbour calls get answered in MallorquÃn; catering truck access is solved with the caretaker, not the call sheet.
Two or three Mallorca locations in a single shoot week means coordinated call times, staggered setups and route planning between the Tramuntana, Palma and the east coast. We sequence the logistics so crew and kit arrive in the right order.
Contracts, damage deposits, public-liability insurance requirements and post-shoot walkthroughs are our job — not a producer’s end-of-day scramble. Owners sign our paperwork; you sign one agreement for the whole scope.
Our core service is location representation: we hold an inventory of shoot-ready Mallorca properties — countryside fincas in Porreres and SantanyÃ, cliff villas around Port d’Andratx, design hotels across Palma, 16th-century farmhouses in the north, and contemporary estates in the Tramuntana. Inside that, we do three things: scouting against a written brief, owner negotiation on rates and terms, and on-the-day site management. A producer can engage any single service or the full stack. Most campaign clients choose the full service; editorial and lower-budget photo shoots often engage scouting only and handle the day themselves.
We’re transparent about industry norms without quoting a specific number, because every brief sets its own scope. The Balearic-Spanish location market broadly works on an agency commission applied to the location fee — usually somewhere in the standard 10–20% range seen across Europe — plus a separate day-rate for on-site representation where required. All services are invoiced with Spanish IVA (VAT) applied at the prevailing rate for non-EU clients and under reverse-charge rules for EU business clients with a valid VIES number. Location fees, crew day-rates and permits are invoiced separately to the agency fee, so you see each line. No hidden mark-ups on venue rates.
Mallorca’s 53 municipalities each run their own film-permit process, and Palma is materially different from Calvià , Sóller or Manacor. We file for still photography, film and commercial permits with the relevant ayuntamiento, coordinate with the Mallorca Film Commission where applicable, and handle AESA drone authorisations including the 8 km exclusion around Palma-Son Sant Joan and the temporary restrictions around the 2022–2026 airport modernisation works. For privately-owned fincas, permit needs are usually limited to road-use or public-space elements; we scope this at brief stage so nothing becomes a surprise on day one.
Online platforms are fast at producing a long list but slow at producing a confirmed shoot. An agency does what a search box cannot: cross-check real availability against shoot dates, apply taste to the shortlist, negotiate a non-standard request like a 4am call time or a helicopter landing, and arrive on the day in person if something goes sideways. We also take liability off your risk ledger — contracts are ours, damage deposits run through us, and post-shoot disputes get resolved before they become invoices. That’s the difference between a listings site and a location service.
Tell us the brief — shoot type, dates, mood, approximate crew size and whether you want scouting only or a full production wrap — and we’ll come back in 24 hours with a Mallorca shortlist plus a scoped cost sheet. The shortlist is free; fees only apply once you choose to engage us on location, day-rate or full-service scope.
We charge in two layers: an agency fee applied on top of the location fee (broadly consistent with the 10–20% commission range standard across European location agencies) and — where required — a day-rate for an on-site representative. Location fees themselves are set by the owner and passed through at cost. All invoicing is in EUR with Spanish IVA applied per standard rules. We scope every job before confirming so you see the full cost sheet, not a headline number.
Standard turnaround is 24 hours for a brief received before noon CET. For tighter asks — a scout required inside 48 hours for an unplanned shoot — we confirm feasibility inside two working hours and come back with a shortened shortlist the same day. Availability is confirmed with owners in real time; we don’t send options we can’t actually deliver on the dates you need.
A local producer on-site from load-in to wrap: owner liaison, access coordination, parking, neighbour diplomacy, supervising moves of furniture and styling, enforcing the pre-agreed curfew and noise windows, and walking the property with the owner before and after the shoot. The rep is the single point of accountability for the location so your 1st AD and production coordinator can stay on the call sheet.
Soft holds are free for up to 7 days on most locations. Once the date is confirmed, a standard deposit (typically 30–50% of the location fee, owner-dependent) secures the booking. Cancellation terms vary by owner and are disclosed in writing before confirmation — we don’t bury them in footnotes. Force-majeure clauses are standard and reviewed jointly with your production insurer where relevant.
The production does. Most Mallorca locations require a standard production policy (commonly €1–3 million public liability, though owner-specific) and we confirm the exact threshold during scoping. Where a production doesn’t travel with its own cover, we can connect you to a Spanish broker who insures short-run shoots. We do not resell insurance — there’s no margin in it for the client.
Yes. We work regularly with crews splitting a schedule between the Balearics and mainland Spain, and coordinate with sister agencies for Ibiza- and Menorca-side locations. That means one brief, one coordinator and consistent paperwork across islands — the same applies for producers pairing a Mallorca shoot week with an Ibiza overflow day.
Yes — municipal film permits (Palma, Calvià , Sóller, Pollença, Manacor, Santanyà and the smaller ayuntamientos), coordination with the Mallorca Film Commission, and AESA drone authorisations including the Palma-Son Sant Joan 8 km exclusion zone. Lead times vary by municipality — some issue inside a week, others want 15 working days — so we scope permits at brief stage rather than at shoot-week.
