The Andalusian Regional Government is going to put up for auction four of the five tourist villas whose ownership it rescued in September, which were attached to the trading company Red de Villas de Andalucía SA and which had been closed for some time.
These are the tourist villas of Pinar de la Vidriera (Huéscar, Granada), Cazalla de la Sierra (Seville), Fuenteheridos (Huelva), and the hotel Las Menas del Serón.
The tourist village of La Axarquia will be returned to the Malaga Town Hall of Periana as it belongs to them.
The starting price of the four villas will be around four million euros.
The valuation prices are currently being updated, although it has already been announced that the Villa Turística de Serón, the Hotel Las Menas de Serón, will cost around one and a half million euros.
The Andalusian network of tourist villas is made up of 10 villas (9 villas and a hotel) distributed throughout the 8 Andalusian provinces. Five of them are in operation and the other five have been closed, the one in Serón if I am not mistaken, since 2013.
The Governing Council agreed in September that the Andalusian Regional Government would recover the use of the closed facilities in order to enhance their value.
The decision did not include the villas in operation and, therefore, had no effect on the activity or employment of the five that are in operation.
Taking into account that, in the construction of the villas, at least 25 million euros were invested at the time, and that only in the five that are closed the investment amounted to 14.8 million, it is estimated that these closed villas have cost the regional administration 23.8 million since 2009, when the transfer of the same, attached to the Public Company Andalusian Tourism (EPTA), now Public Company for Tourism and Sport Management, to the company Network of Andalusian Villas, took place.
In addition, the maintenance of the unused villas meant an annual cost of almost 500,000 euros.