Costa del Sol comarca adds 110 companies, 2.3 times Gran Bilbao, with a 1.1 million developer

Costa del Sol comarca saw 110 companies registered between 14 and 21 October, 2.3 times Gran Bilbao, second of the 21 comarcas analysed today, and MAQUEDA21, a Mijas developer, put up 1.1 million of their combined 1,699,821 euros. In Torremolinos the disposal of five municipal plots, three in El Pozuelo, appears resolved, Estepona picks who redesigns its calle Independencia and Benalmádena keeps its only live home auction open until Saturday 24 October.

MAQUEDA21, a Mijas developer, brings 1.1 of the 1.7 million gathered by 110 new companies

96 of the 110 companies start with 3,000 euros

MAQUEDA21 SL, a Mijas property developer, starts out with 1,100,000 euros of capital. The BORME of 16 October, the Official Gazette of the Companies Register, publishes its incorporation. Its share capital, the money partners put in when founding it, is 65 per cent of the weekly total.
Of the 21 comarcas analysed today, none gets near Costa del Sol and its 110 registrations. That is 27 more than the week before, in the BORME of 14, 15, 16, 20 and 21 October. Second is Gran Bilbao, with 48.
Marbella has 41 of them, including property trading and formwork firms. The BORME of 14 October lists SOLTERRA HABITAT SL, in property trading, and TUGAR ENCOFRADOS SL, in construction.
After the developer, the largest capitals are in Marbella and Estepona. LRC EQUESTRIAN SL starts in Marbella with 153,000 euros to breed horses (BORME of the 21st) and DELCAMINO GROUP SL in Estepona with 100,000 (BORME of the 20th).
The Plan Renove Vehículos Andalucía amends the terms of its grant call. The Agencia Andaluza de la Energía, the regional body running energy saving and renewables grants, publishes the amended call, the notice opening the grant application window, in the BDNS, the National Grants Database. Marbella logs two nominative grants, earmarked for a named recipient, for the Bishopric of Málaga and a brotherhood.

Manilva, ACOSOL, Benalmádena and Torremolinos have four open contracts worth 778,544 euros

The four open contracts, at the two ends of the coast

Manilva takes proposals to redesign the Greco until Monday 26 October. The mayor's office has on the Plataforma de Contratación, the official portal where public bodies post their tenders, a public tender, in which firms submit bids, for the redesign of the Plaza del Greco, tendered at 290,721.29 euros excluding VAT, before taxes.
ACOSOL fixes the chemical tanks at the Guadalmansa sewage plant, in Estepona, and at Manilva. ACOSOL, the public water company of the western Costa del Sol municipalities, offers in lots the chemical storage upgrade, tendered at 259,803.81 euros excluding VAT, until Wednesday 28 October.
Since Friday 16 October, Benalmádena seeks air conditioning units for its buildings. The town hall offers air conditioning for several municipal buildings, tendered at 145,781.71 euros excluding VAT, with bids until 5 November.
Torremolinos splits felling and transplanting its trees into six lots. The felling and transplanting of trees with new pavements and kerbs in several areas of Torremolinos is tendered at 82,237.34 euros excluding VAT and closes on Monday 26 October.

Benalmádena keeps a flat at auction until Saturday 24 October after three closures in Fuengirola and Estepona

Fuengirola holds two of the four auctions

In Benalmádena bids for one flat stay open to Saturday 24 October. It is a court auction, a public sale ordered by a court, of a home in Benalmádena on the Portal de Subastas, the website of the BOE, the Official State Gazette, where anyone registered can bid. The edicto, the official auction notice, gives no floor area.
Fuengirola closed bidding on half a home, and CasasValue puts its building at a 1,267,755 euro median per home. The Fuengirola auction closed on 14 October, like another home in Fuengirola, with no floor area in the edicto. CasasValue is the value CASAS.ES estimates for every home.
On Thursday 15 October Estepona closed one more court auction, also for a home. The Estepona home has no floor area in the edicto. With four auctions, the comarca is second of the day's 21, behind Alcoy.

Torremolinos has resolved the disposal of five municipal plots, three in El Pozuelo, tendered at 8.75 million

Torremolinos is almost half of the municipal land for sale

GRUPO INMOBILIARIO FERROCARRIL appears as winning bidder for five municipal plots in Torremolinos. The Junta de Gobierno Local, the body of the mayor and some councillors, resolved the sale of five plots in five lots, three in El Pozuelo and two on calle Madre Teresa de Calcuta, tendered at 8,749,606.42 euros excluding VAT. The Plataforma lists it in two entries, without lot details.
In Benalmádena, another Ferrocarril company holds land for 192 subsidised homes. Benalmádena has awarded the municipal plot R-11 in Santángelo Oeste, for 192 subsidised homes, to FERROCARRIL PROYECTO 19, S.L., tendered at 4,468,222.95 euros excluding VAT. Together they make 13,217,829.37 euros of public land.
Marbella has awarded municipal land, and Estepona is processing land for 199 subsidised homes. As we reported, Marbella awarded Artola Alta and La Montua. Estepona is assessing bids for two plots in Camino de Cortés Norte for 160 and 39 subsidised homes.
On calle Oropéndola, Fuengirola already knows its supported housing contractor, and Casares has closed its rental tender. The design and build on calle Oropéndola, tendered at 10,859,504.13 euros excluding VAT, goes to the UTE URBASUR-MARVEL, a temporary joint venture of firms bidding together. Casares no longer takes bids to rent out five homes in El Chaparral.

Estepona picks who redesigns calle Independencia and Torremolinos who restores the Casa María Barrabino

A single Mijas project outweighs the five in Benalmádena

Estepona has picked a contractor for calle Independencia and plaza Fuerzas Armadas. Estepona city council resolved this week the redesign of calle Independencia and plaza Fuerzas Armadas, tendered at 1,359,506.51 euros excluding VAT. The tender is over and the chosen firm appears on the Plataforma.
Torremolinos already has its restorer for the Casa María Barrabino. The restoration of the Casa María Barrabino, part of the PIREP, the national programme to refurbish public buildings with EU funds, shows as resolved for a building and restoration firm. It was tendered at 2,107,450.00 euros excluding VAT.
Water, lighting and a reservoir damaged by the flood. ELECNOR SERVICIOS Y PROYECTOS, a single-shareholder public limited company, will do the chemical and fire installations at the Río Verde ETAP, the drinking water treatment plant of Marbella, tendered at 823,639.89 euros excluding VAT. Estepona awarded the solar lights on its coastal path and ACSA OBRAS E INFRAESTRUCTURAS, a construction company in the Sorigué group, will repair the sand settling pond on the Fuengirola river, damaged in the 4 January flood.
Fuengirola completes the change to its IBI by-law. The Official Gazette of the Province of Málaga of 16 October gives final approval to the change in the tax by-law on IBI, the Impuesto sobre Bienes Inmuebles, the property tax owners pay every year.

35 tenders worth 21.85 million remain unassigned, mostly in Marbella and Torremolinos

What remains to be awarded, in two questions

Mijas tops the list of pending contracts with its Christmas display. As we reported, Mijas is assessing bids for its Christmas lights, tendered at 3,696,687.18 euros excluding VAT.
In Marbella, a diversity centre, the Ricmar pipes and the El Rosario pumping station await a decision. Still waiting are the Centro Municipal de Recursos para la Diversidad, tendered at 2,050,053.57 euros, the Ricmar estate water infrastructure, from ACOSOL, at 1,954,072.38, and the El Rosario pumping station, also ACOSOL, at 62,946.93, all excluding VAT.
Torremolinos is still deciding who resurfaces and who demolishes. The municipal resurfacing plan, tendered at 1,828,053.54 euros excluding VAT, is still being assessed, meaning the bids are under study and no firm is chosen yet, as is the demolition of disused buildings on the plot of the Virgen de la Esperanza youth centre.
Casares, Istán and Benahavís also wait on their builders. Casares is assessing the works on Plaza La Carrera, tendered at 1,305,780.06 euros excluding VAT. Istán has waited since January for a firm for the roofing of its sports court and the path to the Castaño Santo, and Benahavís for the resurfacing of Las Margaritas.
Benalmádena also has contracts pending, from the cemetery to street lighting. Still waiting are the funeral room at the Arroyo de la Miel cemetery, at 328,251.09 euros, the cabling and LED street lights, at 102,133.58, and the panic exit devices, at 64,757.50, all excluding VAT.

See on the map the CasasValue of any building in Fuengirola, Mijas or Torremolinos

From 14 to 21 October, Costa del Sol comarca logged 110 new companies. Mijas gains a developer holding 1.1 million of capital, weighs bids for the Christmas illuminations and has already gone through the award, the stage where the public body selects which contractor gets the job, of the La Cala football ground. Marbella has 41 companies and awards the installations at the Río Verde ETAP. Estepona awards calle Independencia along with solar street lights for its coastal path and welcomes DELCAMINO GROUP with 100,000 euros. Torremolinos considers the file on five municipal plots in lots closed and has picked the builder for the Casa María Barrabino. Benalmádena is tendering its air conditioning, weighing proposals for the cemetery funeral room and holds one auction open until the 24th. In Fuengirola two court auctions closed on the 14th, and its IBI by-law is approved. Manilva awaits builders for the Greco until Monday 26 October. Casares is studying proposals for works on Plaza La Carrera and has closed bids to rent out five homes in Puerto de la Cruz, while Benahavís has resolved the resurfacing of avenida Tomás Pascual, Istán keeps weighing up its covered court and its path, and Ojén registers one fresh business.

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