Your seven days news round-up in Mallorca
This week dobbing your neighbour, what's a 'pourist?, car hire, getting rid of property cowboys, expropriating empty homes and water shortage.
"A responsibility for facilitating access to housing" - Balearic court rules in favour of expropriating banks' empty flats
The current Balearic government is expected to include this form of expropriation in new housing legislation.
Palma's British-run Social Club is coming down
Expropriated in order to be demolished as part of the work to redevelop the Paseo Marítimo.
Owners of Palma's Social Club hit out at "degrading treatment"
The club has to go as part of the Paseo Marítimo redevelopment work.
British-run Palma club has three weeks to vacate
Forced expropriation as agreement was not reached between the ports authority and the company.
Beachfront hotels and homes could be expropriated because of rising sea level
The Spanish government is understood to be drafting amendment to coastal regulations.
Order for the "urgent" expropriation of Palma's British-owned Social Club
Demolition of the nightlife venue was originally scheduled for November 2023.
Balearic government expropriation of apartments "a gimmick"
The government's housing policy will have the opposite effect to that which is intended.
Expropriation of apartments could result in lower rents
The Balearic government will expropriate 56 apartments belonging to banks and real-estate firms.
Northern News Spotlight
Pollensa will have to pay over two million euros for Guillem Cifre green area
This land was included in the town's urban plan of 1991.
- 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...”
- The 90 day rule does have some positive results in Spain!
- German low-season tourism in Mallorca set for a new record