Why does it take so long to build new homes in Mallorca?
In addition to the bureaucracy, there is a shortage of construction personnel.
Airport woes, estate agent joy - Mallorca news round-up
Some of the stories that have been in the news over recent days.
Thousands of properties in legal limbo may receive a Balearic government amnesty
Large numbers of properties have been in limbo for years.
Building development in the Balearics
Projects can be delayed for years because of the tangle of regulations.
Government plans massive simplification of Balearic bureaucracy
Regulations have to be cleaned up. "Citizens perceive that procedures can take forever."
Hotel Formentor still lacks reconstruction licence
Three licences in all are pending, one related to the hotel façade.
Environmentalists denounce Hotel Formentor work - again
GOB maintain that no licence has been granted for the hotel reconstruction.
Hotel Formentor to finally get its reconstruction licence
The licence has been pending a report from the environment ministry.
"If you don't want the Hotel Formentor to be rebuilt, then say so"
Opposition parties at Pollensa town hall are being challenged.
Construction of new Hotel Formentor should be stopped, say environmentalists
Authorisation couldn't have been given for total demolition and reconstruction.
700 hectares of developable land to be eliminated
An "unprecedented" limitation to growth of building in Mallorca.
Holiday rentals causing increase in Sa Pobla building licences
Sa Pobla has experienced a holiday rentals' boom.
Hotels
Soller issues licences for eight interior hotels
During the state of alarm, planning procedures have been quicker.
Construction
Developers worried that building licences won't be issued
In Palma, only urgent licences are being processed.
Construction
Urgent measures wanted to reduce Palma building licence delays
The planning department at the town hall grinds to a halt at certain times of the year.
Urban planning
Terraferida calling for suspension of building licences in Deya
Deya has 1,138 tourist accommodation places; the resident population is only 617.
Property
Building licences for new homes up 40%
There were more licences for apartment building than house building in 2019.
Hotels
Town halls' bureaucracy slowing down hotel building projects
Town halls can take up to eighteen months to process building permissions.
- Britons cash in on the outgoing Golden Visa in Spain to beat the 90 day rule
- After a holiday in Mallorca Richard Gere moves to Spain
- Laura Hamilton: “I’ve always loved Mallorca, I just wished I’d bought here earlier...”
- Russian-owned Black Pearl in Mallorca
- Noel Gallagher sold his Ibiza home because of his neighbour - James Blunt