Economic growth in Balearic Islands

By AdmSolJM16

Balearic Islands continue to experience strong economic growth in the second quarter of 2017, reaching 3.9%, and stringing eight consecutive quarters with GDP growth above 3.5%.

Balearics data exceed the state average in the second quarter, 3.1% according to the Institute of Statistics of the Balearic Islands, and are well above the 2.2% growth of the European Union in the same period. In terms of economic sectors, services continue to lead growth with 4% and accumulating 6 quarters with growth of 4% or more. Construction, on the other hand, accelerates activity to 3.7%. Visas projects have risen more than a fifth in the first half of 2017, this improvement is expected to be maintained in the immediate future.

The evolution of tourism is marked by very positive results. On the one hand, year-on-year spending increased 12.6% in July, and the number of tourists, a 5.3. In parallel, the number of passengers arriving at ports and airports of the islands increases strongly compared to last year’s figures and become overcome historical records.

The high profits of the tourism sector, have made the interest of the investors have multiplied when looking for its implantation in the island. Palma is among the five Spanish cities with greater pressure from large firms to find commercial premises. The demand for commercial premises or hotel facilities is much higher than the properties that are put up for sale or rent. The interest of companies and investors to take a hollow in the island goes beyond the premises in which to install a trade or a restaurant business and reaches full to the hotel plant.

 

Outside Palma, the most attractive areas for the investor are to be found in Port d’Andratx, Port Portals, Port de Pollença or Port d’Alcúdia, to name a few examples, due to strong foreign demand.

Palma is considered the main gateway for foreign investments in the Spanish tourism sector. From the legal point of view, the services that are most demanded are related to the mercantile, with the corporate law, the labor law, defense for procedures and assistance in investments. Customers are tourism professionals.

For foreign investment, we offer legal assistance regarding funds from other countries for investment in real estate and business.

Our team has extensive international experience and cooperation agreements with international firms. We are also members of the Association of International Property Professionals (AIPP).

This allows us to offer detailed advice in the field of internationalisation by providing services such as:

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By AdmSolJM16

Palma City Council has set next spring as the deadline to have the zoning provided for in the tourism law that will determine which areas of the city can be leased multifamily housing and which are not.

In this sense, the City Council already has several reports prepared to approve the moratorium on tourist establishments affecting:  Palma centre, first Eixample, Santa Catalina and Playa de Palma. Decisions must be accompanied by technical and legal reports to support them.

In addition, meetings will be held with the corresponding entities in order to know the Plan of Intervention in Tourism Areas (PIAT) that is drafted by the supramunicipal institution.
This document, among other things, sets the ceiling of places, both hotel and rental, that can be authorized in each area. In the case of Palma this plan proposes the reduction of the places. It is therefore very important to have up-to-date data on the number of single-family and multi-family dwellings since, although the former may be the subject of holiday leases, they also count in the global number of tourist places allowed.

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In another order, and regarding the current season, the Directorate General of Tourism is processing the 1,500 tourist places, corresponding to 264 homes that were engaged in commercial holiday rental. Of the total number of tourist houses, 153 had registered the declaration responsible for starting tourist activity between 2016 and 2017, but they are floors in multi-family buildings and semi-detached houses, which were not authorized to be marketed at the time of registration.

These homes were registered prior to the entry into force of the law that regulates the tourist rental and that establishes a moratorium of new authorizations of commercialization of tourist stays in houses until the island consoles and the Palma City Council establish the zoning. The Ministry of Tourism has begun the process of the definitive removal of 111 tourist houses authorized prior to 1999, in which the Inspection Service has found that there is no longer any tourist activity.

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