The High Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands has once again set limits on one of the paths that landowners have historically used to try to obtain urban development rights on rustic land: arguing that the physical reality has already, in fact, turned them into city. However, the arrival of services, being surrounded by a road, or the fact that urbanization has gradually approached the property is not enough, in itself, to convert it into consolidated urban land, according to a recent ruling by the TSJIB.

He was manager for a brief period of the Palau de Congressos de Palma and, therefore, also knows public management. However, Josep Sintes has dedicated a good part of recent years to studying the phenomenon of the excessive increase in real estate prices, in which he currently works. Doctor in Economics, he has sent a proposal to all parliamentary groups in the Balearic Islands to find concrete solutions to the housing emergency, which he has named the Insular Framework for Territorial Equilibrium (MIET).

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.