New real estate speculation scandal in the Balearic Islands. A 30-square-meter cottage is rented for 800 euros per month in Sant Joan de Labritja (Eivissa) and the advertiser warns potential interested parties: "The price is only for the winter season, when summer begins the price will change".

The owners of a dozen rural plots of land on the outskirts of municipalities like Palma and Calvià, as well as in Ibiza, have already begun taking steps to capitalize on the automatic rezoning promoted by the government of Marga Prohens, which could generate capital gains of over 2,000%. The Land Acquisition Law has prompted various owners and developers to sit down and negotiate, attempting to launch projects given this unique opportunity to secure millions in development rights, ostensibly to build new housing. Some of these transactions have already been announced through public tenders. Others are still being discussed behind closed doors. Most of these plots are not new to the real estate market; their current owners have already attempted to rezone their land.

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 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."

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.