Foreign investors want to ban the purchase of housing in the Balearic Islands
- The speculation of foreigners with the properties of the Balearic Islands makes it increasingly difficult for the population to live in their country. A Community committee is set up to study the ban. Foreign investors have been banned for two years in Canada and similar measures are in force in Austria, Finland and Croatia.
The Balearic Islands are taking steps to ban the sale of homes to foreigners. 38.95% of those who bought housing in the Community last year were foreign investors. The authorities have denounced that the price increase forces citizens to leave the country and that many peoples are becoming empty, as investors use the floors for tourism and speculation.
In this regard, The Guardian has stated that in the Austrian Alps the European Union has approved the transfer of areas "with the exception of foreign influences" because of their cultural importance; in the Finnish islands Aland there have also been restrictions on the purchase of second homes, and in Croatia whoever wants to buy farmland must reside in them for at least ten years.
A house in Aiherra, bought six years ago for 250,000 euros, today for sale for 1.6 million euros. Last Saturday nearly 50 citizens joined the real estate agency Puyo de Hazparne to denounce the speculative sale of the Etxetxuri estate. During the development of the action, the... [+]
2024ko urtarrilaren 1etik goiti, Ipar Euskal Herrian bigarren etxebizitza bat erostekotan diren pertsonak gonbidatuko ditu Herrian Bizi plataformak jadanik bigarren etxebizitza gisa baliatuak diren etxe edo apartamendu bat erostera.
Aiherrako Herriko Etxea arranguraturik agertu da 250.000 eurotan erosia izan zen etxe bat, abantsu 1,6 milioi eurotan salgai ezarri ondotik. Etxexuri egoitza 2017an erosi zuten gaur egungo jabeek, eta arraberritzen lan handiak egin zituzten; ganerra eta barnea berregin zituzten,... [+]
