A 3.7 million Christmas lighting contract in Mijas outweighs the other nine published tenders in the comarca

In Málaga's Costa del Sol comarca, a single Mijas contract, the 3.7 million Christmas lighting installation, outweighs the nine remaining published tenders combined. Marbella is selling municipal land in Artola Alta and hosts 17 of the 37 newly created property and construction companies. There are 28 works worth 15.5 million under assessment and Mijas opens a call for 600,000 euros in grants.

Marbella sells land in Artola Alta for 2.8 million and Casares processes the lease of five homes

Five town councils, three stages of public land

Artola Alta changes hands. Marbella city council awarded plot 1 of Artola Alta, tendered at 2,804,328 euros before VAT, that is, before taxes, to SBS HIGHLAND SIERRA BLANCA SL, and a single lot of six municipal plots, tendered at 1,800,711 euros before VAT, to MARBELLA NOT BORING COMPANY SL.
Benalmádena sold a plot and Fuengirola commissioned public housing. Benalmádena awarded plot R-11 of Santángelo Oeste, tendered at 4,468,223 euros before VAT, and Fuengirola commissioned the UTE URBASUR-MARVEL, a temporary joint venture, several companies that team up to bid together for a contract, for the design and construction of municipal support housing in calle Oropéndola, tendered at 10,859,504 euros before VAT.
Casares puts a lease in El Chaparral out to tender. Casares town council is tendering the lease of five homes in El Chaparral, in Puerto de la Cruz, with a deadline of 20 October on the Plataforma de Contratación, the official portal where public bodies publish their tenders.
Four municipalities move land plans forward. The Boletín Oficial de la Provincia de Málaga, the provincial official gazette, published on 8 and 9 October three planning procedures in Fuengirola (the first, the second and the third), the El Pinar development works project in Marbella, plot 1 of the Complejo Los Pintores in Benalmádena and a special employment and training centre with a plant nursery on rural land in Manilva.

Manilva, Estepona, Benalmádena and Torremolinos await bids for five works until the 28th

Mijas alone outweighs the other nine combined

A single Mijas contract outweighs the rest. The largest published tender, the hire, installation and removal of the Mijas Christmas lights, at 3,696,687 euros before VAT, on its own exceeds the other nine tenders in the comarca, which add up to 3,242,564 euros. Its deadline closed on 13 October, as did those for the Benalmádena bus bays and the resurfacing of calle Las Margaritas in Benahavís. Before them, bidding closed for the Nueva Andalucía diversity centre in Marbella and calle Mesurado in Estepona.
Torremolinos opens its tree work to bids. Torremolinos town council this week published the felling, cutting and transplanting of trees with replacement of urban infrastructure, in six lots, for 82,237 euros. Bids are accepted until 26 October.
Manilva and the treatment plants keep accepting offers. Manilva has the refurbishment of Plaza del Greco open until 26 October, at 290,721 euros, and ACOSOL, the public water company of the western Costa del Sol municipalities, has until the 28th the works on chemical storage at the Guadalmansa and Manilva wastewater treatment plants, at 259,804 euros.
Benalmádena's two tenders end on Monday. On 19 October bidding ends for the wiring and energy-efficient lamps of the street lighting, at 102,134 euros, and for the panic bar devices for emergency exit doors, at 64,758 euros.

Marbella accounts for 17 of the comarca's 37 new building and rental firms

Marbella has almost half of the sector's new companies

Construction and real estate carry weight in the register. The Boletín Oficial del Registro Mercantil (BORME), the official gazette where newly founded companies are published, registered on 7, 8 and 14 October 83 companies with their registered address in the Costa del Sol comarca, and 37 of them belong to the property or construction sector, 44.6 per cent.
Benalmádena brings the sector's biggest bet. ONIRO ANDALUCIA SL is born in Benalmádena with 700,000 euros of share capital, the money the partners put in, to rent, develop and build. That is 65.5 per cent of the 1,068,220 euros raised by the 37 in the sector.
A one million holding company arrives in Benahavís. MM CAPITAL & GESTION SL is incorporated in Benahavís with 1,000,000 euros as a holding, a company whose business is owning shares in other companies. The 83 companies total 2,555,395 euros, with 30 fewer registrations than the 113 of the previous week.
Mijas opens grants and the Junta funds work-life balance. Mijas town council opens a call for grants for people with functional diversity worth 600,000 euros. The Junta de Andalucía, the Andalusian regional government, opens a call for travel grants for vocational training students on work placements and three lines of grants for balancing personal, family and working life (one, another and the third).

Estepona closes its last open court auction this Thursday after five closures in the comarca

Estepona accounts for half of the housing auctions

Estepona keeps one bidding open. The Estepona home SUB-JA-2026-266255 remains up for court auction, a public sale ordered by a court, until 15 October. Bids are placed on the Portal de Subastas, the official BOE website where courts and public bodies auction property and where anyone who registers can bid. The BOE is the Boletín Oficial del Estado, Spain's Official State Gazette, which publishes laws and official notices.
Fuengirola closed two auctions. Both Fuengirola auctions closed on 14 October. SUB-JA-2026-266230 offered half of a home, in a building from 2002 with a median CasasValue, the value CASAS.ES estimates for every home, of 1,267,755 euros. The other is SUB-JA-2026-265430.
Estepona and Casares closed three auctions. In Estepona, SUB-JA-2026-266046, a home of 100 square metres of floor area according to the edicto, the official notice of the auction, closed on 8 October, and SUB-JA-2026-262452 on the 13th. On the 13th, SUB-JA-2026-266288 also closed in Casares.

From Marbella to Istán, twenty-eight works worth 15.5 million have no builder chosen yet

Half of the tenders come in below 350,000 euros

Bidding has already closed. The Costa del Sol comarca has 28 tenders for works and supplies worth 15,461,094 euros before VAT under assessment, which means the public body is assessing the bids and has not yet chosen a company. The largest is the ACOSOL water network for the Ricmar urbanisation in Marbella, at 1,954,072 euros, and among the smallest is the El Rosario pumping station, at 62,947 euros.
Torremolinos stacks up asphalt and pavements. Still under assessment are the Torremolinos municipal resurfacing plan, at 1,828,054 euros, its framework agreement for pavements, a contract that sets the terms of the jobs for years, at 1,239,669 euros, and the Plaza La Carrera in Casares, at 1,305,780 euros.
Mijas repairs its pool and Benalmádena restores a tower. Mijas is assessing bids for the repair of the roof over the Las Lagunas swimming pool, at 1,031,853 euros, Benalmádena for restoring Torre Bermeja, at 309,917 euros, and Marbella for the Senda Litoral coastal path between La Morera and the Realejo stream, at 863,547 euros.
Istán and Estepona, a trail and street lamps. Istán is assessing the roofing of its sports court, at 578,512 euros, and the trail to the Castaño Santo, at 471,160 euros. Estepona, the solar street lamps for nine roads, at 381,722 euros.

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From 7 to 14 October, Málaga's Costa del Sol comarca registered 83 new companies, 37 of them from the property or building sector. Marbella contributes 17 and picked the companies that buy its Artola Alta plot and six others, while Ricmar's water network awaits its decision. In Benalmádena ONIRO ANDALUCIA is born, the sector's biggest bet by capital, and two of its tenders end on Monday. Mijas offers grants worth 600,000 euros and is comparing bids to fix the roof of a pool in Las Lagunas after closing its Christmas tender. Fuengirola closed two auctions and has awarded support housing in Oropéndola. Estepona offers bidders a home until this Thursday and is assessing solar street lamps for nine roads. Torremolinos is tendering its tree work, Manilva Plaza del Greco and Casares the lease of five homes in El Chaparral. Benahavís gains a million-euro holding company, Istán weighs bids for its Castaño Santo trail and Ojén, without stories that are only its own this time, shares with everyone the regional Andalusian aid for reconciling family and working life.

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