The typical worth of an 80-square-metre flat within the Balearic Islands has gone up from €144,134 in 2015 to €397,593 in 2025. Credit score: Park Taeho. Inventive Commons
Authorities have agreed to reclassify rural land to permit extra housing to be constructed within the Balearic Islands. It’s one of many key adjustments within the deal struck between the conservatives and the far-right within the regional parliament. The proposal implies that so-called “transition areas” (at the moment classed as rural land) may now be redesignated as developable land, permitting extra properties to be inbuilt cities with over 20,000 residents.
It’ll be as much as the native councils to resolve, by full council vote, whether or not or to not reclassify this land. In Mallorca, seven cities may make use of the brand new rule: Palma, Calvià, Marratxí, Llucmajor, Alcúdia, Inca and Manacor.
Buildable land
As for land that’s already classed as developable, the brand new guidelines will extend construction rights to all Balearic cities with greater than 10,000 residents. In Mallorca, that features 17 cities: Palma, Alcúdia, Andratx, Calvià, Campos, Capdepera, Felanitx, Inca, Llucmajor, Manacor, Marratxí, Sa Pobla, Pollença, Santa Margalida, Santanyí, Sóller and Son Servera.
In accordance with the Housing Minister, José Luis Mateo, these adjustments to the decree intention to “make inexpensive housing extra accessible” in response to the housing emergency facing the islands.
In the meantime, Vox’s spokesperson within the regional parliament, Manuela Cañadas, expressed her satisfaction that the federal government had taken on board her occasion’s calls for. “We’ve turned a stopgap into an actual answer. This decree now gives long-term solutions, respects private freedom, boosts housing provide and makes proudly owning a house now not really feel like an not possible dream,” she stated.
She additionally harassed, “This isn’t simply propaganda,” including that to any extent further, extra cities within the Balearics could have the instruments to behave, extra land will likely be accessible for building, and extra individuals could have the prospect to seek out an inexpensive dwelling.
Rising costs
The typical worth of an 80-square-metre flat within the Balearic Islands has gone up from €144,134 in 2015 to €397,593 in 2025, in keeping with Fotocasa figures. That’s a 176% enhance within the worth of a normal flat in simply ten years.
The housing disaster is now pushing locals off the islands. Previously three years, a reverse migration has began, with island residents shifting to mainland Spain. The once-crowded components of Spain are beginning to empty into the locations that had been beforehand being deserted. Information from the Balearic Statistics Institute (Ibestat) confirms what many islanders are already feeling — that it’s now cheaper and simpler to dwell elsewhere in Spain.
Figures from the previous three years present that the Balearic Islands have solely gained 376 new residents from different areas in Spain. That’s a dramatic turnaround for a area that used to draw migrants from everywhere in the nation, notably throughout the tourism increase when many got here from the south of Spain to work.
