One of Spain's most popular holiday hotspots is continuing to weather the overtourism trend, with soaring house prices reportedly driving locals out of the area. Majorca has long been at the centre of the global spike in visitor footfall records in recent years, hosting a mammoth 51 million visitors in 2023 and dwarfing by some measure its population of just under one million.

As well as causing food prices to rise and crippling local infrastructure, the trend has wreaked havoc on the island's housing sector, with a proliferation of short-term lets geared at holidaymakers leaving residents out in the cold.

The number of expats moving to Majorca has also risen sharply, with 95% of the 12,500 new arrivals in the year to July 2025 non-Spanish. Meanwhile, although wages are on the rise

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