MÁS per Palma has presented two proposals to "stop real estate speculators" and to only allow the purchase of homes for residential use or social rental in the city, along with a tax increase for those who make "speculative sales." The pro-independence party has criticized the PP and PSOE for being "incapable" of implementing "any truly effective measures to curb speculation in this area" and warns that the problem "is not caused by technical reasons but by a lack of political will," as MÁS explained in a statement. "The data is outrageous, and the Administration has legal tools to provide solutions. What is lacking is political courage," stated the spokesperson for MÉS per Palma, Neus Truyol. In this regard, she pointed out that Palma should not be a place where "a few profit, nor a dead end for the majority," and therefore asserted that "homes are for living in, not for speculation."

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.

In Alaior, 56 families have faced eviction from their rental apartments on Avenida de la Virgen del Toro since the beginning of the year. The developer who built the building has gone bankrupt, leaving a debt of over €12 million. This situation has prompted the Mahón Court to put them up for auction. The tenants fear losing their leases and being forced to leave, but they are resisting. After knocking on every door of the Administration, they are clear that they will not give up. Currently, it is very difficult to find enough rental apartments to live in on the Menorcan real estate market.

The Balearic Islands government has convened the regional Housing Roundtable, comprised of public administrations, social, business, and professional entities, to report on the "shock plan" for housing, which aims to build more than 5,000 affordable homes.

As expected, the Nou Llevant neighborhood has become the flagship of the new Palma, which is the one that could emerge from urban planning regulations that disregard rural land and promote development without much, if any, consideration. New, in any case, there will be little: if anything, it will be a larger, more expensive, more crowded, more unlivable city, with increasingly blatant and difficult-to-bridge social class divides. As is often said about Palma these days: a city with all the drawbacks of large cities, and none, or very few, of their advantages. A city that over the last half-century has grown haphazardly, ignoring planning (when it has existed), at the mercy of speculative pressures, always under the tutelage and demands of the tourism sector.

The mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez, pointed out that any potential price increases in the city's transition areas would be due to "pure speculation" and warned that investing in these plots of land "is an absolute risk."

The recent Law on Urgent Actions Aimed at Land Acquisition, approved a few weeks ago by the Balearic Islands Government, will allow the construction of up to 37,432 new homes on rural land on 1,246 hectares of previously protected agricultural and forest land, according to calculations by the platform "Mallorca para vivir, no por" (Mallorca for Living, Not for). This is the automatic reclassification that municipalities will be able to carry out in the so-called Transition Areas (TAs). The figures provided by the entity correspond to a study carried out in seven of the most populated municipalities in Mallorca: Palma, Llucmajor, Manacor, Inca, Marratxí, Calvià, and Alcúdia. Until now, these zones were intended to curb urban sprawl and reserve land for basic infrastructure and facilities. However, the new regulations radically modify this function, allowing construction with densities of up to 225 inhabitants per hectare.

MÁS por Palma has called on the mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez, to specify the city neighborhoods that will be affected by the Catalan government's Land Acquisition Law, which they consider a "urban development coup" and a "gift" to large real estate developers. "Palma cannot be allowed to be a Monopoly game where speculation reigns and families have to survive." The city is for "living," not for "making developers rich," they stated.

Real estate agencies are dream factories: like Hollywood, but smaller. Or we can consider them, depending on how you look at it, a first step toward living the way Hollywood stars are supposed to. It's curious that, in the age of social media and algorithms, real estate agency windows still display photos of the type they sell: houses, apartments, and building plots (an adjective that has lost much of its meaning because now almost all of them are buildable). But these windows must be effective, because they achieve what they want, which is to attract attention. This is at least the effect they give when we see people stop in front of these windows and open their eyes for a while, sometimes for a long time, in front of the advertisements, which are generally A4 sheets hung on the glass with a suction cup. The sheets in question usually have a printed photo, as well as the main details of the property for sale: location, square footage, room layout (if there is more than one, per room), amenities (if there are any in the house or in the area), and, of course, what everyone wants to see, what everyone wants to know and understand: the price. And this is where a truly important change has occurred.

Real estate agencies have found a new niche market to exploit in the Balearic Islands: fishermen's cottages (casitas varadero). While the Balearic Islands are experiencing an unprecedented housing crisis and residents are finding it increasingly difficult to buy a flat or house to live in, speculators have found a new tool to speculate.