##Since its foundation in 1996, First Mallorca has offered competent service and innovative advertising strategies to those interested in the real estate market on the island. Over the years First Mallorca has built-up an enviable reputation for professionalism, global marketing and financial advice in relation to Mallorca Real Estate and its uncompromising attention to detail.
The company’s success is based on the productive combination of the passionate characters of the CEO Heidi Stadler, the professional and continuously trained departments and the balanced and well travelled co-founder Robert Maunder. The entire team enjoys working beyond the borders of perfection to further improve the overall Mallorca Real Estate product and services offered.
Heidi Stadler, the determined Austrian with a talent for languages and numbers drives the company into a constantly new direction, re-inventing the image of Real Estate continuously. Robert Maunder, the English gentleman with the sympathetic colonial touch and his extraordinary general knowledge stands out as a clever strategist and visionary. Both are united by their experiences of living abroad and the love for First Mallorca, which is much more than a money-making machine for everyone.
This inner connection and the results of Heidi’s style of management and Robert’s input are also felt by all employees. “Working at First Mallorca feels like being part of a big family”, is the unanimous opinion of the international multilingual team with experts from all areas such as the sales, marketing, IT, legal, financial and administration departments.
And maybe that is the secret of this success story: professionalism, motivation and a strong effort crossed with kindness, daring to be different and to follow a different path.
First Mallorca owns currently five offices and is planning to open up more in the short future.
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- our main office in Costa d’en Blanes
- our harbourside office in Puerto de Andratx
- our city office in Palma
- our harbourside office in Port Adriano
- our office in Es Pinar
If you wish to know a little more about the life of two pioneers, read the following:
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** Your motivation in**__life? It is LIFE itself! Each stage of life is an expression of our spiritual condition and wants to be lived. Good or bad without judgement, as it is the only necessary thing to do. It is all about seeking and taking opportunities, when the time for a change has come.
** What is the meaning**__** of life?** Learning about and discovering myself over and over again. Always being open minded and seeing situations in a different light, to realise that we are on the right path when the heart has found its place. When we rush and search to replace joy and love, it is not possible to be calm and recognize oneself.
** What is your goal?** As Life ends, to leave whole-heartedly knowing that I have lived the authentic life of Heidi Stadler and no-one else’s. To be present in Life, to do things completely, accept everything, be consistent and receive the deserved glory. What is your wish? Being understood and loved, creating my own freedom and reinventing myself to the last second of my life.
** What is your philosophy of life?** We must fear nothing, except our inner demons. Real adventures only happen in our minds. What are the most precious moments? Every moment I feel a strong bond or a deep inner connection to others, both in communication and where no words are needed. What is your biggest achievement? To be able to laugh at my foolishness, even when I started terribly clever.
What is home to you? Any place where I can relax and be present.
Are you a super-mummy? I will know that in a few years. Maybe it all comes down to a mixture. My children call me „Mama Leona“ (Lion Mummy) often I am wound up – funny and dancing on the table, but sometimes when they walk me up the garden path, we also dance a “Popscherlpolka”. I try to teach my children that life has different facets: nothing is impossible, but there are limits and rules!
What is your personal ritual? Every morning I meditate for a couple of minutes and concentrate on three points: control your thoughts, control your words, don’t judge. Every evening I then know what I have done wrong again. It is not an easy job! After 13 years of travelling and living abroad in Asia, Central America and Europe, Heidi Stadler has arrived and found her life, you can feel it!
The following will give you insights into Robert's life:
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From his earlier days living on the beautiful North Devon coast, located in the far South West of England, Robert Maunder, co-founder of First Mallorca, was well and truly a fishing and shooting country boy. In those days he couldn’t imagine living under the pollution of city lights and concrete. No television, no iPads, his life was outdoors in all weathers. The weather was not a factor. Until his early twenties Robert spent all his free time fishing or shooting on the farm, or with his pets, magpie, crow, rook and owl. He brought them up from either the egg or a few days old. They were free to fly, as they did of course but they never ventured far from Robert, because they thought of him as their father. It was not unusual to see Robert cycling on his bike with either a freshly caught salmon tied to his cross bar or a magpie clinging to his shoulder as he rounded the many bends of the Devon country lanes.
Though his feet were firmly in the North Devon mud and had his family of birds to look after, he did have a slight envy of those travellers up above him producing vivid aircraft vapour trials over his Atlantic coast en-route to London from the Americas.
Little did he know then that his rural peace, the flowing rivers, still lakes and the breaking seas would last only another 10 years before being replaced by world travel to big cities, jungles and tropical islands.
Robert loved fishing, he wrote articles for the national angling press. In the late 60s he opened a fishing tackle business, his trademark expression was “go fishing it’s fun”. But in all his articles and short stories he never failed to mention “when you are fishing you can think of nothing else ... fishing cleanses the brain”. Robert was early to recognise the advantage of using light fishing equipment when deep sea fishing and was soon winning worldwide competitions with revolutionary ABU Svangsta fishing rods and reels. “I think like a fish” was Robert’s secret to winning the world’s top international fishing competitions. But it was the beginning of his overseas travel, paid for by fish preferring his presentation of the bait.
Robert was an all-round sport fisherman; he ate well from the Devon salmon & trout rivers and loved the sweet taste of freshly caught flounders & bass from the river Taw estuary, his neighbours too. The course fishing lakes or ponds were the pearl of tranquillity, whereas the deep sea fishing trips required a strong arm and stomach but his favourite challenge was being perched on rocks side stepping the Atlantic swells and not knowing what would bite next. That was truly peace. The sound of breaking swell and salt air excluded the rest of the world.
Travelling to fishing competitions was beginning to unsettle Robert and in 1972 he left Britain’s shores arriving in Madeira on a cruise ship with his car to collect his thoughts.
That was the start of over 20 years of building a reputation in the tourist industry which took him to expand or develop tourism programmes in North & West Africa, Sri Lanka & the Maldives, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and exciting Far East cities. His employers were based in Zurich and sometimes fell off their chairs at his far distant methods – “but in the days of slow communication I had time to be proved right”, he states with a smile.
During his life abroad Robert bought property in two Balearic Islands and in 1995 Robert came back to the Balearics to liquidate those assets and return to the Far East. But instead he and Heidi Stadler stayed to established First Mallorca and have since expanded the company to be the leading real estate agency on Mallorca. Whilst expanding First Mallorca two little fishermen, Timothy & Julian arrived into the world and now their daddy has taken up the fishing rod once again, well 3 rods, to fish off the rocks from their weekend home in Sant Elm.