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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31.5% of people looking to buy an apartment or house in the Balearic Islands are foreigners. This figure makes the archipelago the second province in Spain with the highest share of foreign demand for home purchases, according to data published by the real estate website Idealista.

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The first affordable housing in the Balearic Islands is now ready, and it's located in Manacor. In fact, the developer Grup Con Tu (based on Avenida del Torrent in Manacor) already made an initial visit to the media and early buyers in mid-February of this year. Now, a few months later, it has announced that this Monday, starting at 10:00 a.m., it will hold an open house to unveil its first completed 10-story building, located at 63 Avenida del Tren.

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A judicial commission on Thursday executed the eviction of a mother and her minor son who were living in one of the substandard apartments on Joan Miró Street in Palma. These apartments are owned by a local police officer who was sanctioned by the government for renting them out.

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Àngela Pons has been a volunteer for various causes since the 1970s, "when social services didn't yet exist." At that time, she was helping out at Can Gazà. She experienced the ravages of heroin, "a real scourge," and 14 years ago joined the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages in Mallorca (PAH), a free association that helps people struggling to pay their mortgages, rent, or facing eviction. Like many others, she selflessly dedicates her free time to defending the right to housing. "We're cooks, and I don't have any education. I had to work hard," she says, referring to skills she learned on the job, forced by the crisis generated by the real estate bubble and the rise in the Euribor, which left thousands of families homeless. "It seemed very unfair to me that, after years of paying the bank, they wouldn't give people a chance when the wealthiest people were getting their loans refinanced," she recalls of her early days. The worsening of the problem, which has become transversal and now extends to rentals, has led the association to expand its services. "Housing has become a inflated stock market product with which companies [investment funds and vultures] make a lot of money. Governments allow them to use housing for speculation instead of stopping the monsters and creating housing. In two years, they evicted 250,000 families," he criticizes.

]]> The editorial office of ARA Baleares overlooks a street in the noble area of Palma, a in the place filled with art galleries of all kinds, cafes cutesy, an antique dealer who isn't an antique dealer, and a real estate agency. Tourists love taking photos on this street. It's narrow, sterile, impersonal, but quite picturesque by Instagram standards. Sometimes I go out and walk around just to hear the comments of those who stop by the real estate agency, presented with all the clichés of Nordic luxury: standardizing white, light-colored designer furniture, Mac computers (Apple grants status), and ads on tablets. Everything digital, everything modern, everything neutral to the point of nausea. Art galleries don't garner nearly as much interest as the real estate agency. Both luxury homes and contemporary art are reserved for the wealthy, but everyone aspires to the former, and the latter only interests those who appreciate it, those who pretend to appreciate it, or those (to close the circle) who want to decorate their luxury homes.

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The 3 Mental Health entities (Estrella de Levante, Es Garrover Foundation, and Gira-Sol Association), the Grec (National Council of the Regions), and the regional government presented the new Shared Home Service this Thursday in Manacor. This new, subsidized service will provide housing and specialized support to 50 people with mental disorders. The goal is to guarantee this group access to a basic right and promote their autonomy and integration in all areas of society, with the help of professionals. This is all thanks to the agreement with the Ministry of Families, Social Welfare, and Dependency Care.

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MÁS por Palma has denounced that the implementation of the new Urban Planning Law on Strategic Residential Projects promoted by the PP and Vox will mean the loss of 1,000 public housing units in Palma's urban development areas, "a flagrant cut in the right to housing that favors large real estate developers and weakens public action."

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The artificial intelligence of Fotocasa's Predictive Rental Date Venues Index estimates that rental prices in Palma will fall by 4.8% between July and September 2025, placing the Balearic capital among the 19 Spanish cities where a downward correction in prices is expected, compared to the 26 where an increase is forecast.

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