Limits on non-residents buying property in the Balearics on hold.
Limits on non-residents buying property in the Balearics on hold.
No limiting of the purchase of homes by foreigners in the Balearics
"Prohibiting or limiting the purchase of homes by non-resident foreign citizens or EU citizens is pure xenophobia."
Crunch vote on foreigners buying Balearic property this week
Call for express authorisation from the European institutions for restrictions on the purchase of homes by foreigners.
Over 2,800 homes in Soller are either empty or not used as main residences
The number of holiday rental beds is now more or less the same as the number of hotel beds.
Pollensa - Best of intentions but the housing imbalance has merely intensified
The level of sporadic occupation and the number of empty properties have increased since a report was published in 2018.
Spain’s Golden Visa expired on Thursday
The visas were approved by the centre-right Partido Popular government in 2013 after the bursting of the property bubble and until 2023 more than 14,500 permits for property investments had been registered.
The growing problem in the Balearics of the illegal marketing of second homes as tourist accommodation
A big challenge for the tourism authorities and inspectors, as these properties are "very difficult to control".
Over 50,000 golf tourists own homes in the Balearics
More than 200,000 golf tourists each year.
Yest another attempt to stop non-residents from buying homes, especially second homes in Mallorca.
Yest another attempt to stop non-residents from buying homes, especially second homes in Mallorca.
Push for Mallorca councils to ban property sales to non-residents
"If we want to ensure that Europe works, we pro-Europeans must ensure that people living in Europe can have a decent life regardless of where they were born or where they want to live."
Fresh call for limiting the purchase of flats by non-residents across Spain
PSOE socialists will be calling on the EU to give regions like the Balearics specific legislation to regulate the purchase and sale of second homes - prohibition, in other words.
Housing in Mallorca and the concerns for social conflict
A message of a video by a group of residents in Sencelles was: "They are throwing us out of our homes, out of our town and eventually out of Mallorca."
Airport woes, estate agent joy - Mallorca news round-up
Some of the stories that have been in the news over recent days.
Homes for Mallorca's residents ... in the north of Spain
While there is an emphasis on second homes, these developments could also provide main residences.
Two years residency in the Balearics before being able to buy a home
Podemos are proposing a series of measures to address housing problems in the Balearics.
State of alarm
Permission to go to second homes from Phase 1
There has been a rethink in Madrid about second homes.
- 5,000 passengers come ashore as Britain's biggest cruise ship docks in Palma
- The big U.S. exodus to Spain, Trump blamed
- The one-time attraction in Mallorca fallen into ruin
- Ryanair fined for refusing to compensate a passenger who landed in Mallorca three hours late
- Louis Vuitton taking over Palma's Bellver Castle