{"id":689108,"date":"2026-01-11T14:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T14:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/689108\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T14:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T14:58:11","slug":"majorca-demands-spain-push-eu-for-limits-on-foreigners-bad-for-brits-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/689108\/","title":{"rendered":"Majorca demands Spain push EU for limits on foreigners \u2013 bad for Brits | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Majorca<\/a> has launched a fresh attack on foreigners in an attempt to restrict their purchasing of homes in the Balearic Islands<\/a>. The centre-right El Pi party is set to present a motion for the Council of Mallorca to urge the Spanish<\/a> Government to push the EU<\/a> into creating a special legal regime for the archipelago that would put limitations on home purchases by foreign individuals<\/a> and companies.<\/p>\n

The regionalist party, which is fighting to manage the impact of tourism<\/a> and promote local wellbeing and holds a significant influence at the municipal level in Majorca, has highlighted that 20 years ago, 64% of homes in the Balearics belonged to single owners, while 36% were owned by companies or individuals with multiple properties. However, these figures have now changed to 54% and 46%, respectively. This data, the party has argued, demonstrates\u00a0a loss of purchasing power and\u00a0residential autonomy for families and citizens of one of Spain’s most popular tourist hotspots<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This issue no longer affects young people<\/a>, but also families, separated individuals, and workers who are unable to access decent housing.<\/p>\n

According to the Majorca Daily Bulletin<\/a>, a spokesperson at the Council of Mallorca, Antoni Salas, said “they have tried to make us believe we are a wealthy society”, while the reality is one of lost competitiveness, broken social cohesion and impoverishment.<\/p>\n

“Housing has become a safe and\u00a0highly profitable speculative asset\u00a0in a territory with unsustainable human pressure and a structural housing shortage.”<\/p>\n

Large investment groups and foreign capital come to speculate, “and further aggravate a problem that is already suffocating residents”, he added.<\/p>\n

For this reason, Mr Salas has argued that the Spanish Government in Madrid should promote this special legal regime within the EU, taking into account the island’s status.<\/p>\n

This revelation comes just weeks after new data revealed that\u00a0foreign buyers<\/a> \u2013 including thousands of Brits \u2013\u00a0now own nearly half of all properties<\/a> in the island\u2019s most desirable areas. The data, released by the Balearic Ministry of Housing, showed that the picturesque municipality of Andratx<\/a>\u00a0has officially become the capital of foreign ownership on the island. A staggering 48.2% of all residential properties in the area are now held by non-Spanish citizens<\/p>\n

Land registry data for 2025 indicated that the total number of Majorcan residential properties held by non-Spanish citizens is 92,030, accounting for just over 16%. The invasion of foreign capital is concentrated in the island’s coastal gems. In contrast, the island\u2019s capital, Palma, remains largely in local hands, with foreign ownership sitting at a much lower 14.5%. In\u00a0Soller<\/a>, there are 1,276 residential properties in foreign hands – 19.4% of the total housing stock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Majorca has launched a fresh attack on foreigners in an attempt to restrict their purchasing of homes in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[208153,208149,208148,2000,299,1699,208146,6333,208147,208151,2838,2863,208152,208150,104,5006],"class_list":{"0":"post-689108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-broken-social-cohesion","9":"tag-council-of-mallorca-spanish-government","10":"tag-el-pi-party","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-foreign-property-ownership","15":"tag-housing","16":"tag-housing-restrictions","17":"tag-loss-of-purchasing-power","18":"tag-majorca","19":"tag-overtourism","20":"tag-regional-autonomy","21":"tag-single-owners","22":"tag-spain","23":"tag-tourism"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115877059132759442","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}