If only natural persons are analyzed, one out of every five property owners is foreign. Of the 52,765 residential property owners registered in Ibiza and Formentera, 10,502 are not Spanish nationals, which represents 19.9% of the total, according to Noudiari based on this report.

• Ibiza and Formentera, together with the rest of the Balearic Islands, lead in the purchase of homes by foreigners.

The presence of foreigners varies by municipality: it ranges from 12.26% in the city of Ibiza and almost 30% in Santa Eulària and Sant Joan, to 24.36% in Sant Josep and 20.25% in Formentera.

The scenario is completely transformed when the analysis is extended beyond individual owners and incorporates corporations and other legal entities. Under this approach, foreign ownership reaches 48% of the total: 23,347 of the 52,765 residential owners.

Santa Eulària and Sant Joan lead the ranking, with close to 70% of foreign owners, followed by Sant Josep (57.16%) and Formentera (52.38%), while Ibiza capital and Sant Antoni exceed 30%.

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These data are consistent with recent statistics on real estate sales and purchases, which place the Balearic Islands among the provinces with the greatest weight of foreign buyers in 2025. The Cadastre allows us to verify that this presence is not limited to recent operations, but is reflected in a cumulative way in the current structure of residential property in Ibiza and Formentera.

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The report also places the Balearic Islands among the territories with the highest transaction prices, whether carried out by individuals or legal entities. In the latter case, transactions carried out by companies reached an average price of 3,137 euros per square meter, the highest in the country.

In the private buyer segment, the Balearic Islands appears together with the Basque Country as the most expensive region, with an average price of 2,484 euros/m², a figure that evidences the strong increase in the price of housing in the archipelago and its status as a high demand market.

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By type of buyer, 86% of the sales registered between 2007 and 2025 were made by individuals, while the remaining 14% corresponded to legal entities, a distribution that reflects the preponderance of private buyers in the Spanish real estate market.

In the specific case of transactions carried out by companies, the study shows that 9% corresponded to foreign companies, compared to 91% of national origin. This data confirms that the international presence also extends to the corporate sphere, although with a much lower weight than in the case of individual buyers.

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This is clear from the Survey of Border Tourism Movements, published Monday by the National Statistics Institute (INE), which indicate that only in December, 182,446 international tourists arrived in the archipelago, up 10.18%. Regarding spending, in the accumulated of the year, tourists left in the Balearic Islands 20,051 million euros, 13.34% more, while in December, tourist spending amounted to 243.78 million euros, 13.48% more. On average, each tourist who visited the community in December spent 140 euros a day in December, 0.61% more than the same month of the previous year, and stayed 9.54 days in the Balearic Islands. In the country as a whole, Spain received 5.3 million international tourists in December, 1.1% more than in the same month of 2023. In 2024 as a whole, the number of tourists reached its highest figure, reaching 93.8 million. By region, the most visited region was the Canary Islands, with 27.50% of the total number of international tourists traveling to the country, followed by Catalonia (20.38%) and Andalusia (12.92%).

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