{"id":149123,"date":"2025-09-16T15:36:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T13:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/estudio-alerta-nueva-ley-suelo-suma-252810-plazas-residenciales-mallorca\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T16:51:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T14:51:41","slug":"estudio-alerta-nueva-ley-suelo-suma-252810-plazas-residenciales-mallorca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/en\/estudio-alerta-nueva-ley-suelo-suma-252810-plazas-residenciales-mallorca\/","title":{"rendered":"A study warns that the new land law could add 252,810 residential places in Mallorca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The report commissioned by the platform <em>Mallorca per Viure, no per especular <\/em>(Mallorca to Live In, Not to Speculate)\u00a0warns that the new land law could allow demographic growth of 37% in the seven most populated municipalities of the island<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The approval of Law 4\/2025 on urgent actions for the acquisition of land has generated intense debate in Mallorca. The regulation, promoted by the regional government with the aim of <strong>expanding the housing supply<\/strong>, opens the door to reclassifying <strong>1,246 hectares of<\/strong> <strong>Transition Areas (AT)<\/strong> \u2014rural land designed to curb urban sprawl and reserve space for infrastructure\u2014 for residential use, according to a study led by geographer Gabriel Garcies and commissioned by the platform <strong><em>Mallorca per Viure, no per especular<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_149103\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149103\" class=\"wp-image-149103 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Alcudia-Ley-del-Suelo-e1758025175538.webp\" alt=\"Urban growth\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Alcudia-Ley-del-Suelo-e1758025175538-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Alcudia-Ley-del-Suelo-e1758025175538.webp 780w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-149103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Simulation of the increase in residential capacity in the municipality of Alc\u00fadia. Source: Platform Mallorca per Viure, no per especular.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The report, entitled <strong><em>Mapa de l\u2019especulaci\u00f3 <\/em>(Map of Speculation)<\/strong>, states that the implementation of the law could result in the construction of <strong>252,810 new residential places<\/strong> in seven municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants: Palma, Llucmajor, Manacor, Inca, Marratx\u00ed, Calvi\u00e0 and Alc\u00fadia. The study estimates that this potential growth represents a <strong>37% increase in the current population<\/strong> compared with the 2024 census.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Palma<\/strong> would be the municipality most affected: 634 hectares of rural land would become urbanisable, representing a 15% increase in urbanisable surface and a 33% rise in population, with capacity for 142,650 new residential places.<\/p>\n<p>Other projected growths include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Marratx\u00ed<\/strong>: 27,180 residential places (+68% population) in 151 hectares (+13% urbanisable surface).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Manacor<\/strong>: 24,480 places (+51%) in 136 hectares (+12%).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Calvi\u00e0<\/strong>: 21,240 places (+39%) in 118 hectares (+5%).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Llucmajor<\/strong>: 16,200 places (+41%) in 90 hectares (+9%).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alc\u00fadia<\/strong>: 12,600 places (+57%) in 70 hectares (+11%).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Inca<\/strong>: 8,460 places (+24%) in 47 hectares (+12%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_149108\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149108\" class=\"wp-image-149108 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Alcudia-Ley-del-Suelo_2.webp\" alt=\"Urban growth\" width=\"780\" height=\"552\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-149108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transition areas in Alc\u00fadia. Source: Platform Mallorca per Viure, no per especular.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The law also sets population densities of up to <strong>225 inhabitants per hectare in Palma<\/strong> and <strong>180 in the rest of the municipalities<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>Free-market and reduced-price housing, but without social protection<\/h2>\n<p>The same report underlines that <strong>50% of the planned homes would be free-market and the rest reduced-price<\/strong>, but <strong>none would be officially protected housing<\/strong>. According to the experts\u2019 calculations, this would mean flats of around 80 m\u00b2 at a minimum of \u20ac300,000, which \u2014in the view of the platform promoting the study\u2014 <strong>would not solve the housing access problem<\/strong> for young people or low-income families: \u201cNot a single flat is designed for affordable or controlled rents. This means that those who are already struggling to buy or rent will remain in the same situation. The only outcome will be an increase in population, with people able to afford these prices coming from outside, or speculators buying them as investments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Environmental organisations such as GOB have also expressed concern about the pressure that this growth could place on <strong>water resources<\/strong>. They recall that the 2023 Water Resources report had already warned of the lack of available water for urban development in Palma, the city that concentrates much of the potential growth foreseen in the law.<\/p>\n<h3>&#8220;Demographic time bomb&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>The authors of the <em>Mapa de l\u2019especulaci\u00f3<\/em> finally warn that <strong>neither the regional government nor the affected municipalities have provided official figures on the hectares involved, the number of housing units, or the demographic and environmental impact<\/strong>, and describe the regulation as a true <strong>&#8220;demographic time bomb&#8221;<\/strong> on an island already strained by a lack of resources. \u201cThe government approved this law under the pretext of creating more \u2018social housing\u2019. The reality, however, is that it is a <strong>gift to the big property developers<\/strong>,\u201d the platform said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The report commissioned by the platform Mallorca per Viure, no <a href=\"https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/en\/estudio-alerta-nueva-ley-suelo-suma-252810-plazas-residenciales-mallorca\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":149104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1513,1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-town-planning"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New land law: 252,810 more residential places in Mallorca - Mallorca Global Mag<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A study warns that the law could reclassify 1,246 hectares and potentially increase the island\u2019s population by 37% across 7 municipalities.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/en\/estudio-alerta-nueva-ley-suelo-suma-252810-plazas-residenciales-mallorca\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New land law: 252,810 more residential places in Mallorca - 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