Websites accused of permitting illegal holiday lets in Mallorca
The Mallorca Hoteliers Federation doesn't believe that EU regulation will provide a definitive solution to illegal lets.
Marga Prohens with Héctor Gómez in Palma.
Marga Prohens with Héctor Gómez in Palma.
Balearics wants EU to help combat illegal holiday lets
The Balearics receives more than 15 million tourists throughout the year.
Holiday lets in Mallorca
“Illegal” holiday lets to tourists are hugely unpopular and against the law
Your home, your castle in Mallorca
“Home owners should be allow to rent their homes to tourists as long they pay tax on their earnings and meet the necessary standards”
Protest graffiti against holiday lets in Palma, Mallorca
Graffiti from some years ago opposing holiday lets in Palma.
Illegal holiday lets in Mallorca and the Balearics will be sealed off
The emergency housing decree was due to have been approved on Friday.
Balearic tourism minister: Tourism of excesses law "can be greatly improved"
The tourism of excesses law "has not been able to stop those negative and viral images that we all know".
End of Mallorca's tourism season - time to protest
When EU tourism ministers gather in Palma, they can expect to be greeted with protests.
Balearics wages war on illegal holiday rentals starting in Mallorca
Objective is one of the Council of Mallorca's main policies.
Your weekly news catch-up in Mallorca
The stories that made the headlines this week in Mallorca.
Week in Review: Bumper season, affordable homes, illegal holiday lets and free water
The stories that made the headlines this week in Mallorca.
Tourists dragging suitcases through Palma
Tourists dragging suitcases through Palma.
Image of a swimming pool at a vacation home in the Balearics
Image of a swimming pool at a vacation home in the Balearics.
To add to an unsatisfactory situation, we have all this business with tourists supposedly staying with friends and family
To add to an unsatisfactory situation, we have all this business with tourists supposedly staying with friends and family.
The party is over in Mallorca!
Maximum fines of 30,000 and owners will lose tourist licence.
Fines of 1.36 million euros for two Palma buildings used for illegal holiday lets
The two buildings in Palma have been operating without the necessary licence.
Your seven days news round-up in Mallorca
Social imbalances caused by tourism, new hydrogen plant in Lloseta, tourism talk, fines for illegal holiday lets, housing crisis, squatters and rural luxury contamination...
- Greece and Portugal cash in as Spain says adios to Golden visa
- Ryanair to base 16 aircraft at Palma airport this summer, an investment of $1.6 billion and supporting 7,000 jobs
- Mallorca set to welcome back young British seasonal workers
- Residents furious in Palma NO-GO area
- Weekend weather: No masking the fact that carnival could be a wash-out
Comment
Are 36% of homes in the Balearics really illegal holiday lets?
The housing minister has said that there are some 235,000 illegal holiday let properties in the Balearics.
Andrew Ede22/10/2023 09:14