Real estate ownership is concentrating in fewer hands in the Balearic Islands. Official data confirm that owners of a single house or apartment are becoming fewer and, like pure communicating vessels, the group of multi-property owners is increasing. In less than two decades, the proportion of cadastral holders with a single urban property has gone from 64.78% in 2007 to 54.61% in 2026. Meanwhile, all brackets of multi-property owners up to 25 properties per person are growing, and the jump is especially pronounced among small and medium-sized holders.

The Tourism Department of the Consell de Mallorca (Mallorca Council) has imposed and notified fines totaling more than €300,000 on a building in Palma where several properties were found to be engaged in illegal tourist rentals without a license.

Unió de Pagesos, the union representing Menorcan livestock farmers, has been the first to speak out against the new agricultural law currently being processed by the Balearic Parliament. They believe it opens the door to tourism and further flooding of the countryside with solar panels, without any direct benefit to those who actually work the land.