Mallorca Townhouse for Sale: A Design-Led Home in a Historic Market Town for €985,000
Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 3 en-suite Interior: approx. 229 m² / 2,465 ft² Lot: approx. 75 m² / 807 ft²
Amenities: Expansive roof terrace, private garage, open-plan living spaces, air-conditioning, underfloor heating, heat pump
Materials: Limewash, natural gypsum, expanded cork insulation, ecological cement, FSC-certified formaldehyde-free plywood, eco-varnished iroko, local clay brick, natural latex
Casa Gigi is a three-bedroom townhouse in Felanitx, a historic inland market town in the east of the island of Mallorca.
Restored by photographer Ana Lui, the house offers a very different version of Mallorca from the one most international buyers first encounter: not a gated villa, not a rural finca, and not a seasonal holiday house, but a real home in a real historic town, rebuilt with natural materials, low-tox construction, quiet interiors and a roof terrace above village life.
The property is available for sale, listed at €985,000, with longer-term rental also considered. Inquiries can be made through Francis York.
The setting in Felanitx, inland Mallorca and far removed from the resort circuit, is part of the appeal. It’s a working market town with its own rhythm, wine culture, galleries, artist residencies and old architecture that still feels lived in rather than staged for tourism.
When Ana first came across the townhouse in 2023, Felanitx was not somewhere she had seriously considered before. A friend had described it as one of Mallorca’s most up-and-coming villages, but what caught Ana’s attention was less about trend and more about character. “It’s still very authentic, the architecture is breathtaking, with houses dating back centuries.”
Ana describes Felanitx as the “real Mallorca”, a place with “a quiet self-confidence that a lot of the island has lost.” Casa Gigi sits in the centre of Felanitx, with the local market twenty metres from the doorstep and the rhythm of daily village life just outside.
The townhouse itself was originally an empty shell. When she first stepped inside, it had no roof, the façade was barely holding the structure together, and it was covered in pigeon poop.
But the bones were there: the proportions, the stone, the sense that the house could be opened up and rebuilt with more space, more air and more light.
“I think I saw it the way I see a frame through the camera,” Ana says. “I knew immediately where the morning light would land, and what the house could feel like once everything unnecessary was taken away.”
Casa Gigi is not Ana’s first restoration. Before it came Casa Mana, the Mallorcan finca many design lovers will have seen making the rounds online a few years ago, and a project that helped establish her eye for earthy materials, atmosphere, sustainability and slow living.
At Casa Gigi, Ana wanted to preserve what made the building a Felanitx townhouse: the proportions, the marès sandstone, the street presence of the façade, the original arches, the stone walls and the shell structure. The façade was restored using traditional techniques and in consultation with the town hall.
The new work came through light and calm. Spaces were opened up. The interiors were kept contemporary but quiet. Local materials were used wherever possible: barro clay bricks made in Felanitx for the roof terrace, windows by a local carpenter, marès stone from a local producer, and Spanish suppliers for mortar, limewash, bathtubs, sinks, taps and appliances. “So the new language is really the old language,” Ana says.
The phrase “low-tox” can sound like a modern wellness term, but at Casa Gigi it feels closer to restoration in the truest sense: bringing the house back to materials that breathe, age and belong to the place.
That philosophy also shaped the invisible parts of the house. Casa Gigi is not just styled with earthy colours and organic textures. It has been built that way, from the limewash and natural gypsum used instead of synthetic paints and plasters, to the expanded cork insulation, ecological cement, formaldehyde-free FSC-certified plywood in the kitchen, eco-varnished iroko windows, local clay bricks on the roof terrace and natural latex mattresses in the bedrooms.
Casa Gigi is arranged over three floors, with three en-suite bedrooms, open-plan living spaces, a roof terrace and private garage.
Ana says low-tox building meant roughly 30 percent more budget, because the healthier choices had to be carried through properly, not just added where they would be seen. That distinction matters. These are not decisions made purely for how a house photographs, or how it reads in a listing. They are decisions made for the person who will live there.
“Nobody stages a home with cork insulation, natural gypsum plasters or a formaldehyde-free kitchen,” she says. “You only make those choices when you expect to breathe that air yourself, every night, for years.”
“Health isn’t a specification,” she says. “It’s an atmosphere you can sense the moment you walk in.”
Much of the low-tox work is hidden inside the structure: insulation, plaster, joinery, finishes and materials chosen for daily use rather than appearance alone.
Inside, the rooms are quiet, but there is a lot to look at. Not decoration in the obvious sense, but surfaces: lime whites, wood, stone, clay, the grain of things, the way the light changes them through the day.
“When your materials are honest you barely need to decorate,” Ana says. “Texture does the work that colour usually does, and the light does the rest.”
That is really the feeling of Casa Gigi. The interiors are simple, but not blank. Most of the atmosphere comes from what the house is made of, and from the way Ana thought about light: where it enters in the morning, where the warmth settles in the afternoon, and how the rooms soften in the evening.
“A calm room is not an empty room,” she says. “It’s a room where nothing is asking for your attention, so you can finally hear yourself.”
That quietness inside is balanced by the life of Felanitx outside. Casa Gigi is not trying to remove you from Mallorca or place you behind gates with a distant view of it. Its romance is much more immediate. Ana describes life in the house as something that moves upward with the day. The main living spaces are where mornings happen: light, coffee, the sound of the street waking up, neighbours passing by, the local market twenty metres from the door, and a yoga studio nearby.
The bedrooms are quieter, cocooned for sleep. The roof terrace, laid with local clay brick, is where the day ends, with sunset over the rooftops of Felanitx. The historic market town is not background scenery. It is part of the experience.
“It’s the opposite of a gated holiday villa,” Ana says. “The house gives you calm; the town gives you life.”
For an international buyer, this may be the more interesting version of Mallorca now. The island is hardly undiscovered, and parts of it have become heavily associated with the familiar language of luxury tourism: villas, calas, beach clubs, summer crowds. Felanitx offers something quieter and harder to manufacture. It has markets, cafés, fruterías, neighbours, wine culture, galleries, artist residencies and a rhythm that continues all year.
“What people don’t see from the outside is that this authenticity is exactly what has become rarest — and most valuable — on the island,” Ana says. “Felanitx offers the thing the famous towns have already sold: a place where you can actually live.”
Felanitx sits inland in Mallorca’s east, close to Portocolom, Santanyí and the coast, but with the rhythm of a year-round working town. The local market is just twenty metres from the house, making daily life here feel more town-centred than resort-driven.
Casa Gigi was never conceived as a quick renovation for resale. Ana built it the way she would build for herself, which is why so much of the investment went into things that are not immediately visible: the insulation, the plasters, the joinery, the finishes, the air quality, the feeling of the rooms over time.
“Every material was selected as if we would live with it forever,” she says.
But Casa Gigi is also part of a larger body of work. After Casa Mana, and now Casa Gigi, Ana’s projects have become a way of exploring how old Mallorcan buildings can be restored with more care, more restraint and healthier materials. New projects are already waiting, and Casa Gigi is ready for the next person to live in it fully.
That is what makes the sale feel less like an ending than a handover. The house is finished, considered and ready to inhabit, but it still carries the attention of something made personally rather than commercially.
In Ana’s view, the rarity is not just aesthetic. It is documented material by material: the limewash, the natural gypsum, the cork insulation, the formaldehyde-free kitchen, the eco-varnished iroko windows. “Houses restored to this standard hardly exist on the island,” she says. “Most ‘natural’ houses are natural only in the photographs.” And she would know. After nearly twenty years photographing private houses, hotels and villas across the Balearics, Ana has seen how often “natural” is more of a look than a way of building.
The future buyer or renter she imagines is someone who understands that difference. Someone who has seen enough beautiful places to know when a house is only styled, and when it has substance underneath. Someone who cares about how they sleep, what they breathe, what they touch, and the story of the building they live in.
“They might come for the design,” Ana says, “but they’ll stay for how the house makes them feel.”
Casa Gigi is now listed for €985,000. For those interested in the property, or in discussing longer-term rental, inquiries can be made through Francis York.
All photographs courtesy of Ana Lui Photography.
