Ara Balears in English - promoters

Prohens' Safe Rental failure: now we also pay for renovations

Marcos Torío — Sun, 17 May 2026 08:51:55 +0000

The government insists with a stubborn obstinacy to sell us the "Alquiler Seguro" program as housing policy, despite its unmitigated failure. It has captured a meager 4.1% of the flats it predicted: 82 out of 2,000. It has had to swallow the inflated figures it packaged to get headlines, amplified by TeleProhens, a public and propagandistic entity immune to discouragement in the face of the single message that the Balearic Islands are doing well.

Speculation at any price

Editorial ARA Balears — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:31:18 +0000

History repeats itself, and it usually features the same protagonists. When there's a housing shortage, the easiest answer is to open up new land, which is the solution the People's Party (PP) is now offering in the Balearic Islands. The recipe, in any case, is the same: develop rural land, rezone it all at once, without planning, and hand out astronomical profits to a few who have been waiting for years for the opportunity to line their pockets.