VARLUQ ESTATES opens with 209,000 euros as the Antequera comarca tenders 1.12 million euros in building jobs

In the Antequera comarca, the Cañete la Real convent, a Cuevas Bajas cemetery and three other works, 1.12 million euros pre-VAT altogether, are hunting for builders. Bids close from 19 to 23 October. VARLUQ ESTATES SL launches in the city of Antequera with 209,000 euros, 93.3% of all capital put into firms born this week, and Alameda now has a named contractor for its water intake.

Cuevas Bajas opens the Antequera comarca calendar of deadlines on 19 October

Two tenders take eight of every ten euros

Cañete la Real town council is hiring someone to restore its San Francisco convent. On 5 October the council opened the licitación, a public tender, in which companies bid to carry out works or a service, for the restoration and refurbishment of the San Francisco convent, at 82,295.19 euros before VAT, before taxes, with bids until 23 October. It is the only one of the five new this week.
Two tenders, window frames in the city of Antequera and a water tank in Villanueva de la Concepción, concentrate the money. Still open are the replacement of exterior window frames in the Manuel Flores estate homes, in the city of Antequera, tendered at 489,804.15 euros before VAT until 22 October, and the new drinking water tank in Villanueva de la Concepción, tendered at 426,300.15 euros before VAT until the 21st. Together they are 81.6% of the 1,122,238.72 euros.
Cuevas Bajas has two small jobs, including the earliest deadline. The refurbishment of the municipal cemetery, phase one, tendered at 72,549.41 euros before VAT, takes bids until Monday 19 October. The maintenance and improvement of the San Juan Bautista school, tendered at 51,289.82 euros before VAT, until 21 October.

Alameda, in the Antequera comarca, awards its new water intake, tendered at 137,286.40 euros before VAT

Antequera city and Villanueva de Algaidas, seven of ten works

Alameda's new water intake goes this week to PERFORACIONES TORCAL, S.L. The supply works at the new intake, tendered at 137,286.40 euros before VAT, also repair the access track.
Antequera city council knows who will do its resurfacing and the old El Henchidero forge, but a contractor for some niches is still pending. The Plan de Asfaltos de Antequera 2026, tendered at 619,834.71 euros before VAT, has gone to Pavasur 1, S.L., and the conversion of the forge workshop into a meeting room, tendered at 191,959.78 euros before VAT, to Prosasfi. The second phase of urbanisation and niches, tendered at 39,289.13 euros before VAT, closed for bids on 6 October with no contractor yet.
Villanueva de Algaidas shares its street and road jobs between two firms. The remodelling of calle Archidona, section 6, tendered at 384,417.67 euros before VAT, has gone to QSOLPANGON S.L., and the resurfacing of the Cuco and Zamarra rural roads, tendered at 82,644.63 euros before VAT, to HORMIGONES ASFALTICOS ANDALUCES, S. A. In Sierra de Yeguas, the urbanisation of calle Real, tendered at 122,017.11 euros before VAT, is resolved: the tender is over and the contract closed, with no contractor published.
The city of Antequera, Villanueva del Trabuco and Villanueva de Algaidas have three contracts under assessment. The public body is assessing bids, with no company chosen yet, for the children's playground in the Los Remedios neighbourhood, in the city of Antequera (81,502.66 euros before VAT), the self-consumption solar panels on three public buildings in Villanueva del Trabuco (125,711.75), and the rerouting of pipes in Villanueva de Algaidas (24,793.39).
Archidona and Fuente de Piedra advance their planning in the Málaga gazette. The BOP de Málaga, the Provincial Official Gazette, where the provincial council and town halls publish their notices, had two notices on 5 October. Archidona opens to public consultation the proyecto de actuación for an equine therapy activity at Cerro de la Cruz, and Fuente de Piedra gives initial approval to an estudio de detalle for calle Huelva.

The Antequera comarca adds six companies with 224,000 euros, nearly all from one property firm

One company puts in almost all the capital

A firm that buys, sells, develops and builds property holds 93.3% of the founding capital. The BORME of 7 October, the Official Gazette of the Companies Register, where new companies, capital changes and closures must be published by law, registers VARLUQ ESTATES SL, property and construction, in the city of Antequera with 209,000 euros of capital, the money the partners put in when founding the company.
The other five each launch with 3,000 euros. DENTAL ABISAL ANTEQUERA SL, dental clinics, in the city of Antequera, and DOBACEN DISTRIBUCIONES SL, wholesale mantecados and turrones, in Cuevas Bajas, according to the BORME of 7 and 8 October.

Almond trees and vocational training placements, this week's two Andalusian grants anyone eligible can apply for

Four grant notices between 6 and 8 October

Almond farms in the comarca get a dedicated Andalusian call. The Consejería de Agricultura announces grants for holders of almond farms, with the amount and deadline in the official notice. The Formación Profesional department announces travel grants for students on the 2025/26 Formación en Centros de Trabajo work placement of FP, vocational education and training, the official studies that qualify people for a profession.
The Diputación de Málaga publishes the 2026 farm employment rules and Antequera city council backs the Rosario brotherhood. The Diputación de Málaga, the provincial government, publishes the rules of the PFEA 2026, the farm employment programme, to which public bodies assign investment in Andalusia, Extremadura and depressed rural areas. Antequera city council awards a subvención nominativa, a grant earmarked for a named recipient, which nobody else can apply for, to the Archicofradía de Nuestra Señora del Rosario to open the church and hold the 2026 procession.

See the CasasValue of the buildings in the city of Antequera on the map

Between Monday 5 and Monday 12, CASAS.ES reviewed the 22 municipalities of the Antequera comarca. Cañete la Real town council tendered the San Francisco convent restoration and Alameda gave its new water intake a contractor. Projects in Villanueva de la Concepción, Cuevas Bajas and the city of Antequera still take bids, while Villanueva de Algaidas, Sierra de Yeguas and Villanueva del Trabuco have contracts that are closed or under study. Archidona and Fuente de Piedra each published a planning procedure in the BOP de Málaga. The BORME shows six firms based in Antequera, Cuevas Bajas or Villanueva de Tapia. By contrast, Mollina, Humilladero, Campillos, Teba, Almargen, Ardales, Carratraca, Valle de Abdalajís, Casabermeja, Villanueva del Rosario and Cuevas de San Marcos saw no tenders, companies or notices of that kind in that week, though almond growers in them may look up the regional call for almond farms.

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