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The sale of a 22 million euro mansion moves the axis of luxury on the Andalusian coast: to Sotogrande

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The price of housing in Spain it doesn’t stop going upbut this unstoppable increase has not been a brake on closing the most expensive real estate sale in Andalusia. That the mansion protagonist of the unusual record have your own name It is already an indicator of the economic level to which this home points: Niwa, a mansion in Sotograndehas closed for more than 22 million euros. To put it in perspective, that price implies that its new owner has paid about 5,116 euros for each of the 4,300 meters built of this property. Taking into account that the average price in the province of Cádiz is about 2,249 euros/m2, places the operation at levels of the price of homes in premium areas of the big cities.​ Niwa: 4,300 m2 of sustainable luxury Niwa is located in The Seven, the most exclusive sector of the already exclusive luxury development The Sotogrande Reserve. The property occupies a 10,000 m2 plot on a hill overlooking the Mediterranean and facing Gibraltar, surrounded by the Los Alcornocales Natural Park.​ The mansion consists of 4,300 m2 built, distributed in nine suites, with an outdoor infinity pool, an indoor covered pool, spa, gym, cinema room, wine cellar and garage for eight cars. The project came from the pencils of Manuel Ruiz of ARK Architects and was carried out with construction techniques more advanced and sustainable with the environment since 95% of its structure was prefabricated in a factory and then assembled in the chosen location. This allowed us to reduce the impact on the environment and reduce emissions.​ Sotogrande began its development in the early 60’s as a private residential area with 24 hour security. It currently has five golf courses and is considered one of the most luxurious urbanizations and exclusive to southern Europe, which attracts foreign buyers for its designer mansions, its privacy and its proximity to exclusive services. In 2024, the average sales prices of their houses reached 1.9 million euros, with transactions reaching up to 17 million euros. Some of the new construction phases that were started were sold at 85% in phases such as Village Verde. Plots in the most exclusive areas of Sotogrande, such as The 15, start at three million euros, while in The Seven, where Niwa is located, they can exceed eight million euros per plot. “Over the last ten years, Sotogrande has invested in its facilities, maintaining its essence as a low-density, high-quality destination. It is very exciting to see how this positioning is increasingly relevant for our clients,” assured in statements to The Confidential Rita Jordão, Marketing Director of Sotogrande SA. Luxury moves south “The sale of NIWA marks the beginning of a new era for Sotogrande, where architecture and lifestyle multiply their value on the Costa del Sol and, I would dare say, on the entire Mediterranean coast. NIWA is a modern palace reinterpreted with a contemporary language that is situated halfway between the classic and the current, with a very special materiality,” confirmed its creator, pointing to a substantial change in the preferences of ultra-rich clients who seek to settle in Andalusia. Given the growth in popularity of these new luxury enclaveshistoric luxury areas, such as Marbella, are losing relevance after decades of urban pressure, and foreign buyers They have begun to set their sights on Sotogrande. “The record sale of NIWA firmly consolidates Sotogrande as a destination among the best in the world. What is happening is not a change of course, but a natural consequence of what Sotogrande offers is increasingly valued in the luxury market,” confirmed Jordão. In Xataka | A businessman built a mega mansion without permission: the neighbors have gotten the city council to demolish it Image | ARK Architects

An Andalusian Aena. And seriously

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“Aena should end her monopoly in Spain and head towards a model similar to the British where airports of the same territory compete with each other.” It is easy to guess who those words are. Indeed, its owner is Michael O’Leary but it is more difficult to succeed with the date. Now, Balearic Islands and Andalusia begin to slide that it is perhaps a good idea. They have a proposal: end Aena’s monopoly. Competence. As we said, the previous words are from O’Leary, CEO of Ryanair. But it is not part of its last pressure measure to justify its march of some Spanish airports. These statements already made them in 2017. Obviously, His opinion has not changed since then. What has changed is the position of some voices within Spain, to which we are much less accustomed. These have come from the Balearic Islands and Andalusia who propose a new model: they want to manage their airports and, thus, plant competition to Aena who is the one who carries the singing voice throughout the country. Andalusia. “We are not very happy with how Aena is maintaining our airports. We are thinking whether to make a co -management agreement or enter the shareholding of a company that could develop an Andalusian Aena.” With these words, Arturo Bernal, Tourism Councilor of the Junta de Andalucía, his position regarding Aena’s work in his region to questions from questions from The confidential. Balearics. The position of the Balearic Islands is the same. Marga Prohens, president of the Balearic Islands, has already defended her position with An initiative not law. The intention is that there is a co -management between Aena and the regional government. One of the reasons indicated is that the works that are being carried out at Son Sant Joan are “quite inefficient”, in Prohens’s words. How does Aena work? Aena is the Spanish airport management company. It has so many aerodromes under its umbrella (46 airports and two helipuertos) that right now is the company that manages the most spaces of this type in the world. Its shareholders are 51% public and 49% private since the Law 8/2014 will let private shareholders into the company. Since then, Aena is still in charge of maintaining Spanish airports in the best state and, of course, making them attractive to airlines. Hence, for example, the rates to operate at regional airports are much lower than those in Madrid, Barcelona … or Balearic Islands, whose airfield are San Joan is the third most important in our country. Solidarity. In the article of The confidentialwhat the unions and defenders of the AENA model defend is that the company allows smaller airports to remain open despite the fact that, together, they are deficit for their low volume of flights. With its benefits, Madrid or Barcelona help Santiago de Compostela remain open and, despite Ryanair’s departure, new companies remain attractive to occupy this space. However, they emphasize that 49% private capital is pressing everything possible so that investments in deficit airports is the minimum possible with the aim of maximizing benefits. For CCOO, the ideal solution is simple: 100% public capital. And they emphasize: “Aena worked much better because all the benefits reverted in improvements in the network. The company generated more income to the state of what it needed to invest in airports. Now we have vulture funds in the shareholding.” Compete? What they support from the Balearic Islands and Andalusia is the same as O’Leary: the best model is that airports compete with each other. For the CEO of Ryanair, the ideal is that the airports of the same space fight to offer the most attractive offer to the company. What they want from the autonomous communities is to enter the management so that their airports are more attractive to those of other regions and have more benefits to their coffers. A few days ago, Maurici Lucena, president of Aena, He published a letter Regarding Ryanair’s threats to continue taking flights from the Spanish territory. It defended that Spain has one of the most competitive rates of the European environment, thanks to a very demanding regulation, which, among other factors, induces high operational efficiency of the company. “ On the other hand, the demand for Balearic Islands and Andalusia also coincide the announcement by the government that will invest 12,888 million euros in Spanish airports. Of course, of these investments it has only been pointed out that “9,991 million euros correspond to regulated investments, while the rest will go to unregulated actions (associated with commercial activity)”, without offering more specific details or more specific interventions. Are there airports that are not from Aena? Yes, in total there are four airports in Spain that are not managed by AENA: Castellón, Ciudad Real, Teruel and Lleida. In addition, that of Andorra-La Seu d’Urgell is also managed by Catalonia. The results are disparate. Castellón has not stopped accumulating lost Since it was launched. Its construction was a cost of 158 million euros. Ciudad Real also does not give benefits but, in this case, Its management is completely private. Teruel has specialized in its position as an industrial airfield. A hole has been created on the international map for its spaces of maintenance and repair of aircraft. Lleida is an environment used by airlines for pilot formation. Among other companies, here they operate Air France, Vueling and Volotea. Finally, that of Andorra-La Seu d’Urgell yes operates with commercial flights. However, the sum of both has not reported any year of benefits Since regional reins were taken in 2014. Photo | Pop9000 on Wikimedia In Xataka | Ryanair’s march has left regional airports: 240,000 passengers less and 70% less in one of them

It comes from the Andalusian mountain and burns in French thermal

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While Europe profile new sanctions Against Russia in the energy sector, the clock runs to fill the reserves for winter. In this context, France has decided to look south to supply its thermal plants and reduce its gas dependence: Andalusian biomass is placed in the center of the solution. Short. From the port of Seville a new export operation of forest biomass has come out to an electricity generation plant in the French region of Provence and Costa Azul. As reported by the Junta de Andalucía through a press release4,200 tons of biomass have been loaded, from jungle treatments made in Andalusian mountains and managed by the Novalis company. This operation is part of a public-private collaboration model that seeks to value the forest resources of Andalusia and position biomass as an exportable energy alternative. A paradigm shift. This type of exports shows a deep transformation in territory management: what was previously a residue or a fire risk, today becomes a clean energy resource with international demand. Andalusian woody biomass not only generates renewable energy, but does it with a neutral fingerprint in carbon, contributing to the decarbonization objectives of the European Union. In addition, active jungle improves the structure of forests and reduces plant load, which helps prevent forest fires. “For years conservation was confused with inaction and that has led to the abandonment of many mountains,” has pointed out in Europa Press The general director of Forestry Policy and Biodiversity, Juan Ramón Pérez Valenzuela. The process. The model is based on the tender for forest exploits on public land, especially in areas of high ecological value and risk of depopulation. Cleaning tasks, clareos and jungle treatments are carried out by specialized companies. Once classified and shipyard, biomass is exported through logistics infrastructure to energy facilities in France, Italy, Denmark and Sweden. Since the operation started in 2019, the port of Seville You have seen come out More than 400,000 tons of biomass: wood, cork and even olive bone that now serve to generate clean energy in Europe. Only the Sevillana Novalis company has moved more than 100,000 tons. If the exports also carried out from Huelva, Puerto Real or Almería are added, the total already exceeds 640,000 tons to countries of the north and east of the continent. Now there is no bottleneck. Spain has been seen as a Cul-de-Sac energetic: With limited infrastructures and with hardly any interconnections with central Europe. But when he is interestedas this operation demonstrates from Seville, it can be removed to the sea and what was only gas in gas pipelines, now they are mountains converted into heat. It is not the only case, since companies like Burpellet, in the small bourgeois town of Doña Santos, They consolidate this idea. With a production of up to 150,000 tons per year, its plant demonstrates that biomass can be a viable industrial solution for rural areas, without losing its local scale. The mountain as the energy of the future. The Junta de Andalucía does not hide your bet. The operation in the port of Seville is a sample of the deployment of the Andalusian Forest Plan Horizon 2030, which mobilizes 300 million euros per year to promote the multifunctional management of the mountain. And it will also be the basis for a future mountain law that consolidates the productive and sustainable use of the territory. At a time when Europe fears the cold of winter and heat of energy crises, Andalusia sends more than splinters: exports clean energy, active forest management and future for their peoples. The mountain, finally, is again the protagonist. Image | Port of Seville Xataka | Sea water to heat the streets: the idea of a German city to have more sustainable heating

There is a new and unsuspected investor in the Andalusian field: Pepsico

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Pepsico has launched Vivaoliva, a program of 300,000 euros that seeks to give an impulse to the olive grove in Jaén through regenerative agriculture, economic inclusion and generational relief, as stated ABC Sevilla. Why is it important. Jaén concentrates the greatest number of olive groves in the world but drags a structural fragility accentuated by the shortage of water, climate change and rural depopulation. The initiative raises a specific model of territorial transformation. The first phase starts in Bedmar, Sierra Magina, with 150 farmers from the Grupo Inteole Cooperative. The program will finance agricultural technologies and form in techniques such as compostingcoverage crops and infiltration ditches. The context. This is not a casual bet. Pepsico already has direct links with the territory: its brand Alvalle It is supplied exclusively with extra virgin olive oil from 2021. The economic connection is real and strategic. In figures. The 300,000 euros distributed among 150 farmers account for 2,000 euros per exploitation. It is an amount that can finance some specific improvements, but that will hardly transform on its own the structural reality of farms that need investments of tens of thousands of euros to completely modernize. Yes, but. The program faces the challenge of demonstrating real impact with limited resources. Andrea Pont, director of the Pepsico Foundation in Europe, Talk about “guaranteeing sustainable income”. Now it remains to see if the economic sustainability of the Jiennense olive groves goes through what can address a single business initiative, or if you need anything else. Between the lines. The commitment coincides with Pepsico’s need to ensure its olive oil supply chain in a context of climatic uncertainty. What is presented as corporate altruism also responds to a business logic: protect Alvalle’s supply sources. Deepen. The program must compete with adverse market dynamics: Volatile oil prices. High energy costs. And a property structure that favors large farms against the small producers it intends to boost. Vivaoliva has solid technical advice (Earthworm Foundation, The Sustainable Smallholder) and seeks to become a replicable model. Its success will be measured not only in regenerated hectares: also in itself it manages to retain rural population and create a demonstration effect that attracts more investment to the territory. In Xataka | Ten years ago, Jaén thought that the Andalusian Olivar deserved to be a World Heritage. They did not know the mess in which they got Outstanding image | Jaén oil

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