The Palma City Council has definitively approved the statutes and bases of the compensation board for the Son Ximelis Strategic Residential Project, a situation that opens the way to the urbanization of 143,649 square meters, where 1,080 homes can be built, according to municipal data. Of the total, 530 homes will have some type of public protection. The project had initial approval, but final approval was necessary to step on the accelerator.

The former Metropolitan cinemas from the Palma neighborhood of Pere Garau They will be transformed into a nine-story multi-service center housing a local police station, a daycare center, a library, a primary healthcare unit, and parking spaces. The winning design in the ideas competition was the preliminary architectural project submitted by Joan Fortuny and Martí Sanz, as announced by the mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez, at the press conference following the Governing Board meeting held this Wednesday. The building will combine concrete with wood and features flexible spaces adaptable to the multitude of uses planned for the building. It will have three underground levels, which will be used for parking and storage, and six above ground – including the roof – where the various municipal services will be located.

The private faculty promoted by the Catholic Foundation CEU San Pablo has achieved the reclassification of the land of the former Riskal, on Antonia Martínez Fiol Street in Palma, in just 9 days (two of which were weekends). The publication in the Official Gazette of the Balearic Islands (BOIB) of the agreement of the Governing Council of September 25 confirms the impressive speed with which the promoters of this training center have obtained not only the change of use of the land, but also the full authorization to carry out the faculty where the degrees in Medicine, Nursing, and Nursing will be taught.

The Balearic National and International Real Estate Association (ABINI) described this Monday as a "scandal" and expressed its "deep concern and indignation" because the Management Company for Assets from Bank Restructuring, Sareb, is keeping 50 plots of land in the Balearic Islands blocked, with the capacity to build 583 homes.

Dozens of people gathered this morning outside Palma City Hall to express their rejection of the Land Acquisition Law approved by the Parliament. Under the slogan "Whoever loves Mallorca, does not destroy it," dozens of residents of Palma neighborhoods, such as Son Sardina, have demanded that the Court not implement the possibility of building on rural land without exhausting the developable land.

Law 4/2025 on urgent actions aimed at obtaining land through strategic residential projects in the Balearic Islands came into force this Thursday. The regulation, which allows for the automatic rezoning of hundreds of hectares of rural land for housing and which increases pressure on developable land, was published in the BOIB (Official Gazette of the Balearic Islands) early this morning.