tranq tranquerThat is exactly how I bought my rural property 9 years ago (elderly parents retiring to a care home and four disinterested middle aged city kids with young families) and how my German neighbours (celebrity chefs) bought their derelict property, now renovated, last year. I live here, they don't. The rest of our neighbours are mostly elderly Mallorquins, and when they go their properties will be sold (most likely to foreigners) to divide between the kids.

So the CEO of a giant hotel group bringing trillions of tourists to saturate Mallorca, whilst banking all the bucks says ‘oooooh, not us ….’ Shock horror! It’s all the fault of those naughty home owners, renting their houses out. So annoying - and those tourists will spend their money in local restaurants, shops, supermarkets and bars!!!! Depriving Mr fat cat CEO of yet more trillions. The cheek of it! ALL tourists should, in fact, be spending their hard earned dosh in all inclusive, money guzzling mega hotels - owned and totally controlled by Mr Greedy CEO. That explains it all! Wow thanks for telling us.

Stephen NivenEither you don't live here or if you do it must be in the middle of a city. Those dozen kids you speak of either know before hand who will get the family house or squabble amongst themselves till its sorted out. Occasionally they opt to sell and share the cash, that is how I was lucky to buy my first windmill. Look around, there are no vacant derelict houses in the countryside. They have all gone long ago. Any you do see will be earmarked for a family member, it will not be for sale. The 80's and 90's was the time to get them, before the young Mallorcans realised their race to the cities was not actually the way to go and reversed their thinking. If they need cash they may sell the odd plot of land for an exorbitant price to a foreigner to build another mushroom on, ( slap in the middle of the land so forever removing it from agriculture) but they won't sell the family home and finca.

TDThanks, I was about to inform her then I saw your comment

I would love to see a place for motorhomes to be able to legally park in the major resort areas where one can dump toilet and grey water. One only needs around 30 pitches per resort at the back of resorts. Having driven down and back to England in a car this year, and stayed in Cala Millor legally, it was one of the best holidays over the past 35 years in the resort. I prefer self catering to be able to have more freedom, rather than tied to hotels and meals. I would NEVER stay in All Inclusive. My wife passed away just over 9 years ago, and I brought the love of my life, my small dog with me, and we had a great time together. All inclusive on the whole can kill the local economy, where people can just stay in the hotel for their stay in Mallorca, rather than getting out to support local businesses on the island. I plan to come back next year to Cala Millor again, but in a motorhome, and stopping through France on route several times, and if need be, using a hotel or apartment hotel in the resort that will be dog friendly for my stay if I can not stay in my motorhome. I would leave nothing but footprints, and take nothing but photos in a motorhome, but also support the local economy where I can.

So let me see, elderly Mallorcan couple who never contributed much beyond a dozen kids and a few surplus sheep, drawing state pensions and requiring health care 24/365 die off and the kids sell the parental home to estrangieros for €'000,000 which they then spend in the local economy, then the offshore buyers employ architects, builders, caretakers etc. for more €'000,000 into the local economy, visit a property that no sane Mallorcan would want to live in (and which would otherwise be derelict, costing the local authorities money) for a few weeks a year, spend more money on restaurants, shops and services, and are zero burden on health or local services. And 2nd home-owners are a bad thing?

Ulla JacksonI believe tranq was being sarcastic.

Time for the All Inclusive Hotels to realise other have lives as well. You are hand in hand with improper politicians!

Bryan AdamsI meant to give you a thumbs up!!!

Ulla, it's called sarcasm. Look it up in the dictionary!