Real estate media in Es Cubells

The area

Es Cubells is a village in name only: a small church on the cliff edge, a handful of houses and one of the steepest coastlines in Ibiza dropping several hundred metres to the sea. What surrounds it is farmland and pine, and what sits in that farmland are some of the most private estates on the island.

Buyers who look at Es Cubells are looking for silence and land. Parcels are large, neighbours are distant, and the road network is deliberately awkward, which keeps day traffic away. The houses tend to be white rendered volumes with wide covered galleries and terraced gardens, often with a second building for guests, and increasingly with amenities — courts, gyms, guest pavilions — that a coastal plot simply cannot fit.

Filming here is an exercise in scale. The cliffs are so tall that a ground camera reads them as ordinary, so the aerial work has to establish height and isolation before anything else. We usually fly out over the drop at first light, when the rock still holds colour and the air is calm, then work back through the property as the shade moves across the galleries.

Our Es Cubells production covered a two-villa estate with a private tennis court set into a natural shelf between the houses — the kind of detail that only becomes visible, and only becomes valuable to a buyer, once you see the whole parcel from above.