Sharing an apartment with strangers is no longer just an option for young people in the Balearic Islands. 64% of tenants looking for a room in the rental market of the Islands are over 35 years old, according to data from the real estate portal Pisos.com. The profile of those who share housing in the Archipelago thus moves away from the usual pattern of students or young people starting their independent life.

The debate over the two royal housing decrees of the Spanish government has ended with a parliamentary defeat for the Spanish government and the possibility of a snap election on the table. But, as a knock-on effect, the clash in Madrid also puts the housing model of Marga Prohens' Government against the ropes. In line with the position set by Genoa, the president has refused to apply the declaration of a stressed zone in the Islands, which would allow her to limit rental prices. This week, she rejected it again while defending "small property owners," as social protests grow and the left prepares for a possible campaign focused on mobilizing voters for housing.

A couple with two children, one of whom has a disability, had to face this week a situation for which no one is prepared: being evicted from their home. The eviction, scheduled in Palma, was suspended. It had already been postponed in July, when activists gathered in front of the building, and now the court has once again halted the eviction. According to Stop Evictions Mallorca, the new state regulation approved by Pedro Sánchez's government this week, which Vox, the PP, and Junts overturned in a debate in Congress that will go down in political history, was one of the legal arguments taken into account.

The ‘Maricarmen decree’ has already served as a legal basis to suspend at least four evictions in Mallorca in just a few days. The latest one was stopped this Friday morning in Palma, where the eviction of a family in a situation of social and economic vulnerability living at 44 Bisbe Cabanelles street, in the Pere Garau neighborhood, was scheduled.

The Mallorca Housing Camp will organize an advisory day this Thursday to help people whose rental contracts are about to expire to draft and send burofaxes to landlords to request the extension provided for in the housing decrees.

Ibiza has grown much faster than its housing. In the last 25 years, the island's population has increased by almost 83%, while the number of homes has done so by about 40%. The imbalance between both growth rates places the accumulated housing deficit at 43.18%, according to data from the Balearic Housing Observatory (OHIB).

The Mallorca Tenants' Union has called on residents to occupy the Plaça de Cort this Monday to show their discontent and demand "that there be not one more Maricarmen in the whole State." Thus, they join the demonstrations organized and called by Tenants' Unions across the State.

The real estate market crisis in the Balearic Islands leaves behind more surprising and unexpected situations every day. Exorbitant prices, offers that were unthinkable years ago, new housing models... The latest of these novelties has been the creation of a new market within the world of real estate agencies: room rentals. Although individuals have been renting out rooms for years to cover costs or to speculate, it now seems that the real estate sector has seen a new opportunity and has joined this market openly and without any scruples.

The Balearic Islands would need about 17,000 more homes to cover the population growth of the last 25 years, according to data from the new Balearic Islands Housing Observatory, a government tool that compiles 23 indicators on the evolution of the real estate market. As detailed this Thursday during its presentation, between 2000 and 2025, the population of the Islands grew by 46.3%, while the residential stock did so by 31.5%, a difference of 14.8 percentage points.

Real estate ownership is concentrating in fewer hands in the Balearic Islands. Official data confirm that owners of a single house or apartment are becoming fewer and, like pure communicating vessels, the group of multi-property owners is increasing. In less than two decades, the proportion of cadastral holders with a single urban property has gone from 64.78% in 2007 to 54.61% in 2026. Meanwhile, all brackets of multi-property owners up to 25 properties per person are growing, and the jump is especially pronounced among small and medium-sized holders.

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.

The question a young woman asked herself after seeing her grandmother's house in Son Espanyolet being demolished to make way for a new construction in foreign hands is, in reality, a collective, country-wide question. "Why couldn't I save my grandmother's house?" she wondered. Her lament could be that of thousands of people from other neighborhoods and many towns and cities in the Islands. Why are more and more families unable to preserve the houses that have been part of their history?

Javier Burón resorts to a simile to explain the housing problem as a public manager of the matter, with 25 years of experience in different regional governments. "We see how the lava advances and we are sitting on the terrace saying: 'Well, there's time.' When we have the lava on top of us, we'll see what we do.'" Author of the housing problem (Arpa Editors) and managing director of the public company for industrial land, housing, and territorial cohesion of the Government of Navarra, he is participating this Thursday, April 30, in Ca n'Oleo in Palma in a conference organized by the UIB on what is needed to have social and affordable housing.

The Platform Against Airport Expansion warns that expanding airports in the Balearic Islands could worsen the housing crisis and the over-tourism of the archipelago. In a statement, the organizations that make up the platform—including the GOB (Balearic Ornithological Group)—express "serious social concern" about the direction of Aena's airport policy, which—they claim—has the approval of both the Spanish government and the Balearic government. The activists recall that the Dora II Plan (2019-2025) already expanded the facilities, with more walkways, the widening of Terminals A and D in Palma, and increased parking capacity. But they warn that the future Dora III Plan (2027-2031) "is a ticking time bomb": it plans to allocate 600 million euros to Palma within a total package of 13 billion euros across Spain.

The Mallorcan band The Deaf Buffalos has released a new song, a direct and frontal attack on Airbnb and its consequences for the island of Mallorca and its inhabitants. Titled God bless AirbnbThe group includes lines and verses like "don't go to the beach, let the foreigner go, he's the king of the island, he's the one who gives us our bread," making a reference to tourist rentals. In fact, this is also the central theme of the music video, where the band members are seen in front of ETV signs, the identifying mark for properties intended for tourist rentals.

As the sun rises, the residents of Son Güells close their front doors to begin their workday. Son Güells is not a housing development, but a caravan settlement In Palma, which is beginning to take shape as a micro-neighborhood on wheels. The first quarter of the 21st century is ending, and living in a vehicle is just one example of the normalization ofhousing emergency that the Archipelago suffers. There are many more: living in shacks, abandoned buildings like the old Palma prison, apartments shared by several families, or rooms in houses where common areas have been eliminated and rented out.

The first prize in the Extraordinary Christmas Lottery, known as La Grossa, worth €400,000 per ticket and €328,000 net after taxes, would not be enough to buy a home in the Balearic Islands. According to average price data for the archipelago, an additional €178,313 would still be needed to reach the average price of €506,313 for a 90 m² property.²

The Es Fangar estate in Son Macià (1,000 hectares in the Manacor area, bordering the municipality of Felanitx) has gone back on the market for a slightly lower price than a few years ago. "The most expensive mansion in Mallorca," as several European media outlets have called it recently, is returning to the real estate market for 87 million euros (approximately 100 million dollars). It's worth remembering that the estate still belongs to German industrialist Peter Eisenmann, who bought it for just over 13 million euros in 2001 from the Bonnín-Armstrong family. After renovations, the planting of vineyards, and the creation of his own winery (which he had to build off-site, initially attempting to locate it in the Manacor industrial park without success), and controversies surrounding the closure of several public roads crossing the estate and passing in front of the houses, financial difficulties led to his sale. Downward

In 2020, Eisenmann put Es Fangar up for sale for €100 million, at €100,000 per hectare. This estate, dedicated to organic farming with wine production, breeding purebred horses, and organizing equestrian championships, occupies more than 0.27% of the island's surface area, covering over 1,000 hectares. The former president of the Eisenmann SE group, dedicated to the engineering industry, went bankrupt after rejecting acquisition offers from a Chinese group. The estate also has a helipad. Finally, in 2019, a winery was inaugurated in Felanitx, with an investment of €8 million, to market the organic wine produced from his vineyards. A 7,500 square meter space, 48 tanks with a capacity of 12,000 liters of red wine and a 20,000-liter tank for blending, as well as oak barrels, mostly French.

]]> To no one's surprise, Palma's anti-employment office has received only half a dozen inquiries since its opening. The experience of Castile and León (where the PP and Vox govern) should have alerted the mayor of Palma to avoid this embarrassing situation, created solely to appease their far-right partners. The PP caved and arrived—as is their wont—at a compromise: renaming the existing office with the word 'anti-employment' so that Vox could promote its message.

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The College of Notaries has developed a "very useful" tool that allows users to find out the real market price per square meter without falling prey to the prices set by speculators and real estate agencies. This is explained by a financial content creator.Esmeralda Gómez Lópezin a video on social media where he details the benefits of this new website.

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