The National Police and the Government's Housing Inspection Service have detected an overcrowded and precarious dwelling in Manacor where, according to the occupants, up to 30 people had lived together at certain times.

The tourist rental employers' association Habtur has responded to the proposal by hoteliers in the Balearic Islands to modify the Tourism Law and use the Property Registry to control properties intended for medium-term rentals. The association of tourist homes considers it "surprising" that the hotel sector seeks to decide "once again" how an economic activity that is not theirs should be regulated.

This summer I noticed that young people go to the sea with a chair. And I'm not referring to young people who have ceased to be young, but to very young people. Some carry a deck chair, but most, a folding chair. You see them with the chair, but also with the umbrella, a large cooler, a basket with the picnic, lunch boxes and with clothes hanging from the umbrella. They set up on the rocks or on the beach as if they were at home. I like the attitude.

MÉS per Marratxí has accused this Tuesday the mayor of the municipality, Jaume Llompart, of keeping a public housing unit from Ibavi empty for more than two years in the urbanization of La Cabana, despite the housing access crisis. The complaint comes after an attempted occupation has once again placed this property at the center of political debate.

32.2% of homes sold in the Balearic Islands during the second quarter of the year were acquired by foreign buyers, the highest percentage in the entire State. This is according to the Real Estate Registry Statistics published this Tuesday by the College of Registrars, which places the Archipelago as the community with the greatest weight of international demand in the residential market.

The Government tightens the requirements to access the new public housing it is promoting in the Balearic Islands. The 323 Official Protection Housing units (HPO) that the Balearic Institute of Housing (Ibavi) will build next to the Velòdrom Illes Balears in Palma will require proof of a minimum of 15 years of legal residence in the Islands to be eligible. The development was already announced on March 30, and this Monday the Government and the Consell de Mallorca formalized the free transfer of the land.

It's only been a month since my friend Henry got his place, a rental apartment in Palma, and it has already become our Holy See: the meeting point, the safe space for the whole group. Maybe not the rest, but I knew from the start that it would be; it was enough for me to see how just two restored chairs and curtains fluttering in front of the stained glass window became a home. And deciding, at the last moment, to go there to watch the World Cup final confirmed it, like a revelation, just as spontaneous acts do. It seems we had needed this for a long time, a sanctuary for our sorrows and joys. A place that welcomes us, spontaneously, where we can relax and be the only thing we want to be: friends.

L’Auba, the property of the Majorcan painter and sculptor Joan Riera Ferrari, is back on sale. It is offered at a reduced price and with the possibility of being acquired "with all the author's memories and furniture", according to the note accompanying the real estate advertisement, which sets the price at 750,000 euros, 16% less than what was previously asked. The property, with 670 square meters built, six bedrooms and parking, is located near the Bandrís road, the slaughterhouse, and the municipal treatment plant. In fact, it was already put up for sale a few years ago, shortly after the artist's death, in May 2017.

The old Agricultural Chamber of Sant Joan has circumvented real estate speculation, will be rehabilitated and will be allocated to social housing for young farmers in the Pla de Mallorca region.

In the year 2000, 10 million tourists arrived in the Balearic Islands. In the year 2026, 20 million will arrive. For years, some political leaders tried to make us believe that tourist saturation was just a perception. Today, however, hardly anyone doubts that the Balearic Islands are suffering from a serious problem of overmassification.

The Balearic Islands are the autonomous community with the largest difference between the price of protected housing and that of second-hand free housing. According to the latest bulletin from the Observatory of Housing and Land, published this Wednesday by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda and corresponding to the first quarter of 2026, the average value of protected housing is 70.1% lower than that of used free housing, the highest percentage in the entire State.

New song against tourist overcrowding, land exploitation, the Balearic economic model, and real estate speculation. Pepet i Marieta have released Ses platges seran sempre nostres, a Mediterranean roots jota that reflects on some of the consequences of tourist overcrowding in Mallorca and the gentrification affecting neighborhoods and municipalities in the Balearic Islands. The song arrives at a time when the debate on the tourism model occupies a central space in Balearic current affairs, coinciding with the call for the 'Mallorca al límit!' demonstration, scheduled for this Sunday in Palma to denounce the effects of tourist saturation on the island.

The Government will open this Friday, July 17, the period for young residents of the Balearic Islands to apply for aid of 10,000 euros to buy their first home. The call is aimed at people up to 40 years old with a minimum of five years of residence in the Balearic Islands and for homes with a maximum price of 382,000 euros. The aid will also cover purchases formalized from January 1, 2026.

MÉS per Palma denounces that the Partit Popular government in Cort has decided to open the door to companies and investment funds being able to buy subsidized housing. This decision, in their opinion, turns protected housing into "a new business for large speculators and directly harms the citizens of Palma". As they detailed at a press conference, until now, this subsidized housing was reserved for families who needed a home to live in.

A resident of sa Pobla denounces that she cannot recover her grandmother's house, because, according to her, the man who was the elderly woman's caregiver continues to live there after her death. The family states that they have initiated legal proceedings to recover the property, as they need it for their mother, who has been recognized with a dependency of grade III and suffers from a neurodegenerative disease. "We filed the necessity claim in October 2025, because my mother needs this house and, almost a year later, we still have no response," assures the complainant. The Sa Pobla City Council has declined to provide information on this case to ARA Balears, citing the obligation to preserve the confidentiality of people attended by social services.

The Civil Society Forum presented a document this Wednesday to define the future economic model of the Balearic Islands. The text, which will be debated at the congress on November 13, advocates for a reduction in the weight of tourism in the Balearic economy and proposes measures to favor productive diversification, including the creation of a tax on large fortunes that, according to the Forum's own calculations, could raise up to 325 million euros annually.

Inca is the cheapest municipality in the Balearic Islands to rent a home, with an average price of 12.4 euros per square meter per month, according to a study published by the real estate portal Idealista.

Construction continues to increase in Mallorca, according to data provided by the College of Surveyors and Technical Architects of Mallorca, which has already approved 1,296 new homes on the island during the first half of the year, a 28.7% increase compared to 2025. These are the highest figures in the last five years and are expected to continue growing.

In an Ibiza where access to housing has become one of the main social emergencies, with runaway rents, inaccessible purchases and a growing number of residents forced to share flats and live in precarious conditions, the luxury real estate market is moving figures that seem from another reality. In this context, the real estate agency John Taylor has put two new properties in Mallorca on sale for a combined value of 57 million euros: an amount with which, in many municipalities on the island, an entire housing development or an entire neighborhood could be acquired or built.