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Everything filed in September 2026. Their news, our eyebrow, sources linked as always.
Last checked: 22 September 2026
Marbella town hall will allocate 25 social‑housing flats on the Golden Mile by a public draw before year‑end; half are earmarked for applicants under 35. Each successful applicant will receive a €10,000 grant from the council and a €6,000 contribution from the developer.
The town hall approved plans for almost 3 million m² of new urban land that could eventually hold more than 6,400 homes.
Málaga province broke the €3,000 per square metre barrier in Q2, reaching €3,083.5 per square metre.
Inn Offices, which already runs 8,000 m² of flexible workspaces in Sevilla, plans to launch a hub in Málaga in 2027.
Málaga Hoy →
The average regulated household bill will hit €106.57. Off‑peak rates are rising more than twice as fast as peak rates.
The Olive Press →
The government will pour €500 million into a semiconductor hub at Málaga TechPark, with construction slated for the first quarter of 2027 and an expected 200 direct and 500 indirect jobs in the province.
Málaga Hoy →
Garages and storage units in Rincón de la Victoria, Mijas and Benalmádena are up for public auction, with individual units starting at €2,500. A 23‑space macro‑lot in Rincón de la Victoria begins at €91,000, with bids open until 8 October.
Málaga Hoy →
The Basque developer acquired the beachfront plot for more than €150 million to build about 500 high‑end apartments, part of a plan that forecasts over €600 million in revenue.
Málaga Hoy →A school bus driver who was nine times over the legal limit soiled the vehicle after dropping pupils in Benalmadena, according to The Olive Press.
The town will operate over 410 smart traffic cameras, a ratio of one camera for every 194 residents.
SUR in English →The 50 % stake in Club Zaudín Golf was sold for just over €3 million, implying a total valuation of €6 million.
The government approved €830 million for the DORA III expansion, which will almost double the airport’s surface area and lift capacity to 36 million passengers a year.
SUR in English →
BlueBay, with a 49 per cent stake in NAS Spain alongside Sheikh Abdullah Al-Thani’s 51 per cent, now runs the company that holds almost 97 per cent of Malaga CF’s shares after appointing Jamal Satli and Javier García Recio as directors.
SUR in English →
Grupo MAS will spend €10 million to transform 20 former Maskom supermarkets in Málaga and is developing a logistics platform to back its eastern Andalusia growth.
Málaga Hoy →
The Andalusian regional government said the Axarquía area will produce 40,000 tonnes of mangoes, valued at €60 million for growers. It noted this is about 30 percent less than the record 60,000-tonne harvest in 2025.
SUR in English →National statistics show inflation rose to 4.3 percent in August, the strongest year-on-year gain since February 2023, driven by soaring fuel prices.
The Ministry for Digital Transformation allocates 5.94 million euros to Málaga for its smart-city rollout.
Málaga Hoy →
Idealista data show that half of all rental enquiries in Nerja came from abroad in Q1 2026, a 50 per cent share.
Euro Weekly News →
The city council has asked the Junta for a direct grant of €590,000 to fund the basic and execution project of the Feria Palace expansion, which has a total budget of €4 million.
Málaga Hoy →
Naturgy will replace 46 turbines with eight modern units, cutting the count by 38 while lifting annual generation to about 149 GWh, a 92 percent rise.
SUR in English →
Over 80 municipalities and 200 companies gathered for the Greencities forum while the VI Smart City Congress ran alongside, featuring 115 speakers.
Málaga Hoy →
The 39-metre vessel, lying six metres beneath the water off Cabopino, is being examined by divers from the Andalucian Institute of Historical Heritage, who will map the site and release a 3D model.
The Olive Press →A basement beneath a chalet in Alhaurin de la Torre was fitted with ventilation, LED lighting and irrigation, creating a high-tech indoor cannabis farm; police seized 3,000 plants.
AEHCOS says the moratorium will not create housing and urges more protected homes, pointing out that hotels already supply 18,235 places.
Málaga Hoy →
Ilanga Capital has secured a €145 million loan from Goldman Sachs Alternatives to fund the Oakmond senior-resort redevelopment beside the future Four Seasons. The €260 million project will break ground in autumn 2026 and aims to open in the third quarter of 2029.
Málaga Hoy →
The partnership creates a platform with more than €56 million in revenue and about 800 staff, and Innovasur, which posted a €40 million turnover in 2025, now sits as Cívica’s reference shareholder without a majority stake, giving the combined entity €56 million in revenue.
Málaga Hoy →
After six months selling ONCE tickets, Francisco Lucia’s draw paid out a €240,000 Sueldazo prize, granting a neighbour €2,000 a month for ten years, totalling €240,000.
Euro Weekly News →Rincón de Rubo, a family-run bar in Villanueva de Duero, deliberately sets its coffee price at €1.50 despite Spain’s 3.6 % inflation rate, according to Euro Weekly News.
The provincial council is spending €2,753,445.38 on five new trucks, several trailers and more than 500 containers.
The fenced Santangelo Norte site, holding only three small wooden dinosaur figures, has cost €714,677.56, town hall documents show. Residents say the money could have fixed far-more pressing neighbourhood needs.
Charter rates start at €16,000 per day. Some platforms list weekly prices between €50,000 and €60,000.
Malaga province added 29,119 homes over the past five years. During the same period 55,500 new households were formed, meaning only about half the demand was met. Source: https://www.surinenglish.com/malaga/malaga-building-only-20260909000500-nt.html
SUR in English →
The works will lift the beach area from 2,700 m² to 12,700 m², almost six times larger. A pier up to 200 m long will also be built. Source: https://www.malagahoy.es/malaga/nueva-playa-espigon-banos-carmen_0_2007911321.html
Málaga Hoy →
The new public garage will offer more than 300 bays at a cost of €1 per day, according to the council. Source: https://www.malagahoy.es/estepona/estepona-urbaniza-cubierta-parking-futuro-bulevar_0_2007915407.html
Málaga Hoy →
More than 1,300 flights were cancelled after a fault in NATS’s control room, leaving passengers stranded at Málaga, Alicante and Barcelona airports.
Euro Weekly News →After a 16-year tender saga the Andalusian ports agency approved a €200 million expansion. The upgraded facility will raise berths from 268 to around 750. Source: https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2026/09/08/marbella-cruise-ships-super-yachts-marina/
The 2027 municipal budget forecasts €457 million in revenue, up from €431 million, and a 41.34 % rise in investment, according to the town hall spokesperson.
Málaga Hoy →
Former tourism delegate Nuria Rodriguez’s Ruta de los Bancos Gigantes now features 33 oversized benches in villages from Malaga to Seville, turning them into unexpected tourist stops.
Euro Weekly News →The town is completing a 20,000-square-metre park in La Boladilla. A programme will install 465 new streetlights across nine outlying roads for €560,458.
Acosol has awarded a €350,263 contract to Irtene SL to design and oversee construction of a 2.55-km water-pipeline stretch between the Galera stream and the MA-8300 road linking Casares and the coast.
SUR in English →
Organisers say more than 300,000 people attended the eleventh Torre del Mar International Air Show over the weekend.
SUR in English →
The Junta de Gobierno Local has approved the tender documents for redeveloping Calle Cantarero in Maro, with a €340,377.96 budget co-funded by Nerja and Málaga province and a maximum four-month build. Companies can submit offers until 24 September, and the project has the required authorization from Andalucía's regional culture office.
Ayuntamiento de Nerja →
The housing price index was 11.9% higher than in the same period of 2025, extending the region's streak to 47 consecutive quarters of growth.
Málaga Hoy →
Praxfer homes reports that 13 of the 19 Zinnia apartments have been sold, the majority to Dutch and Polish purchasers.
Málaga Hoy →The agriculture ministry reports that beer drunk outside the home fell 16.1% between 2022 and 2025. Industry body Cerveceros de España says that, when tourists are included, the total market is 2.7% larger than in 2022, a point made in its interview with EFE Agro.
Idealista data show square-metre prices rose from €1,467 to €1,949 in Competa, €2,388 to €3,248 in Frigiliana and €2,866 to €3,952 in Nerja – increases of 32%, 36% and 38% respectively.
Euro Weekly News →
Prices up, grid capacity zero, black flags on the sand: nine days on the Wire, read again with our own numbers beside them.
Fourteen dispatches in nine days, and not one of them said cheaper. Here is the week the Wire filed, read again with our own numbers beside it.
Every number says up. The Bank of Spain says calm. An election says something has to give. Our reading of the most expensive sand in Spain.
The average home in Marbella now costs EUR 803,522, Diario SUR reported on 22 August, a figure 38.3% higher than in 2022. Idealista puts the asking price at EUR 5,607 per square metre in February, up 10.6% in a year. Villa Bellagio on the Golden Mile is on the market…
Full berths, EUR 10 million of profit and a family calling EY: the port everyone says is finished is being sold at the top. Then look east.
Everyone on this coast has a Puerto Banús speech. The one about the cars parked for photographs, the champagne with a sparkler in it, the pavement that has not been repaired since the last time anyone looked. The fall of Puerto Banús is a genre. We went looking for the…
Sand trucked in every spring, EUR 2.7 million a year paid to the state for the shore, a fix four years in review: the coast is being managed into the sea.
Marbella sells one product. It has 27 kilometres of it, 8 stretches fly a Blue Flag, 43 chiringuitos cook on it and a day on a paid bed beside it averages EUR 131. Everything else on this site, the villas, the restaurants, the EUR 70 million listings, is priced off…