Antequera Budget 2027 Hits Record 59.73 Million Euros Antequera approves a record 59.73 million euro budget for 2027, up 11.3 per cent, with taxes frozen and 4.71 million euros of street and sports investment. region: Antequera | category: Business & Economy Antequera will enter 2027 with the largest municipal budget in its recent history. The draft project now moving through the town hall sets total spending for next year at 59.73 million euros, an increase of 11.3 per cent on the figure for 2026, and it does so without raising a single tax, municipal tariff or public price. The number gains weight when set against the recent past. The town has spent 53.66 million euros in 2026, 51.46 million in 2025, 52.03 million in 2024, 46.68 million in 2023 and 46.60 million in 2022, after budgets of 42.43 million in 2021, 42.23 million in 2020 and 43.01 million in 2019. From 2019 to 2027, spending will have grown by almost forty per cent, a climb achieved while much of Spain was absorbing inflation, higher energy costs and more expensive contracts. Where the money goes is as revealing as how much there is. Personnel costs account for 20,003,047 euros, and current spending on goods and services for 26,031,012 euros, the two chapters that keep the town hall running day to day, from staff and street cleaning to the services residents actually touch. Social policies take 27.29 million euros, the single largest destination of the budget and the clearest sign of the priorities the council has set for the project. Direct investment, the money that changes what the town looks like, reaches 4.71 million euros for 2027. The list is concrete: the reurbanisation and improvement of the streets Cerro de San Joaquin, Zacatin, Palomos in its first phase, Santa Maria de la Cabeza, Bombeo and Olivo in La Joya, along with Antequera street in Canadas de Pareja. The plan also covers the complete remodelling of Tinajerias street, the third phase of Aguardenteros, the third phase of Santa Maria la Vieja, the third phase of the Corazon de Maria gardens, works on San Sebastian street in the Colonia de Santa Ana, the fourth phase of the El Mauli sports complex, a new room at the Fernando Arguelles pavilion and paving works at pavilion 15. The consolidated budget, which adds the municipal companies Aguas del Torcal, the water operator, and SPERAC, widens the picture to 67.29 million euros in total spending for the public sector answerable to the town. Oversight has already spoken. The municipal Intervention, the independent body that watches over the town hall's accounts, issued favourable reports on the project, certifying compliance with the principles of budgetary stability and the spending rule. The budget also sets aside 1.20 million euros to pay down live debt, which stood at around 31 million euros, continuing a line of financial repair the council has made its own. The freeze on taxes and tariffs is the political heart of the project. The town hall insists the increase is delivered under strict fiscal discipline and budgetary balance, keeping zero rates in key ordinances and absorbing the rise in operating costs without passing it on to residents or covering it with new borrowing. In a year when many municipalities have quietly raised fees, Antequera has chosen the other path. The context makes the record possible. Antequera, a World Heritage city since 2016 and home to more than forty thousand residents, sits at the crossroads of Andalusia, with the motorways and the high speed rail line bringing growth, logistics and visitors through what was once a quiet agricultural market town. A widening business and logistics base gives the council room to invest without squeezing households. The draft now faces the ordinary path of every Spanish municipal budget: scrutiny, amendment and a vote in the plenary session, where the opposition groups will test the numbers line by line. What residents can take from the project today is simpler: services financed at record levels, streets and sports facilities with money attached, and another year without the council reaching into their pockets through local taxes. For a town that measures its progress in budget lines as much as in towers, 2027 is shaping up as the most ambitious year Antequera has put on paper.