The lack of affordable housing in Mallorca and across Spain is a mounting problem.
The lack of affordable housing in Mallorca and across Spain is a mounting problem.
Week In Review
Your seven days news round-up in Mallorca
Mallorca news that hit the headlines from December 27 to January 2.
Your seven days news round-up in Mallorca
This week, we talk about the cheapest places to buy a home, large property portfolios, citizen protests, civil society participation in debates, hotels opening in the low season, graffiti fines, free buses, and problems with recruiting staff.
Renting in Mallorca
At present, the popular real estate platform Idealista lists a mere 49 apartments for rent under 1,000 euros per month across the entire island
Balearic Government will allow the 'skeleton' of abandoned buildings to be used to create new public housing
This initiative seeks to bring these buildings into compliance, allowing them to contribute to the local housing supply at limited prices.
Almost a third of Balearic homes are not main residences
Half of the homes not used as main residences are unoccupied.
Reach for the skies - Taller buildings a solution to Palma's housing crisis
The government will be approving a raft of urgent measures.
General view of Palma's housing
General view of Palma's housing.
Mallorca week in Review
Foreign home buying, living in a container, Americans invasion, Richard Branson hotel requirements and Gary Barlow cruising to Palma are just some of the top stories this week.
Concern over rise in people living in caravans in Mallorca
High cost of rents and living forcing more and more people to live in caravans in Palma.
Mallorca non-resident property purchases to be limited
Entry of rental cars to also be restricted across the Balearics.
Tourism model in Mallorca makes people less well off
Housing problems and the high school dropout rate are directly linked to the tourism model.
Don’t pick on the foreigners!
Let’s not pretend all those second homes are owned by wealthy foreigners here for their “holibobs.”
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...
- Ryanair grounds 12 Spain routes over excessive airport taxes
- End of the Golden Visa....but there is a new way to live in Spain with few problems
- Nautical exodus from Mallorca
- The EU threatens the future of Mallorca beach bars
- Non-resident Britons and Americans buying a property in Spain face massive tax bill, PM announces
Comment
Mallorca’s housing crisis: Locals priced out
Mallorca is at a tipping point.
Patrick Czelinski25/10/2024 09:36