Salas, an organization based 30 years in the past in Sabadell, has develop into the primary promoter of social housing in Catalonia.
Salas, an organization based 30 years in the past in Sabadell, has develop into the primary promoter of social housing in Catalonia. "We do greater than any public administration," says its common director, Manel Rodríguez. Since its basis, the agency has promoted 2,500 and manages an excellent bigger quantity, 3,500, the bulk owned by public administrations, by means of the Fundació Nou Lloc, an entity chaired by Pere Esteve Sala, one of many firm's founders and President of Cohabitac, the coordinator of social housing foundations in Catalonia. "Yearly we contribute 5% of our income to the Salas Basis," which promotes social housing, says Rodríguez.
Salas defines itself as "a technical platform" for housing improvement. Its employees, of 240 individuals in Sabadell, Mallorca and Madrid, contains architects, legal professionals and financiers. “We search for whoever has the cash and we construct the homes, and even when they need it, we handle them for them,” he explains. Salas has been a pioneer in constructing housing for cooperatives. Final 12 months she delivered 130 and now she has promotions underway in Mallorca, Sabadell and La Sagrera (Barcelona). “The companions contribute 20% of the funding and we handle the works and search for financial institution financing for them”, she affirms.
The corporate additionally promotes for city halls, and has reached agreements with these of Badalona, Sitges and Terrassa, amongst others. “We reached agreements with the municipal housing promotion entities to handle them as soon as they're completed by means of the Basis: we're specialists, and we maintain upkeep and that there are not any occupations, no defaults, no abuses, like individuals who sublet their social flats on Airbnb, as there have been instances”, he highlights.
Salas, owned 50% by the households of Rodríguez and Pere Esteve, delivered 465 properties final 12 months, of which 200 had been formally protected, and plans to ship 550 this 12 months -300 of them protected- and one other 625 in 2024 The corporate billed 40 million euros in 2022 and plans to shut this 12 months at 45 million. "That is our charges, however the worth of the properties we construct is far greater, 120 million euros final 12 months."
The developer has develop into the pinnacle of a enterprise group: it has its personal building firm, Salas Construhabit; its personal power supervisor, Salas Inexperienced Energy, and promotes two social housing foundations (Fundació Salas and La Nou Lloc) and three housing cooperatives. The agency has additionally opened a manufacturing unit for prefabricated components for properties in Sant Celoni (Barcelona). Rodríguez lamented the shortage of land, which he thought-about attributable to mistaken city insurance policies. “In social housing now we have no margin, we work at value. And we do not do extra as a result of there isn't any extra land obtainable, or they provide it to us at costs that don't enable us to construct flooring that individuals can afford”.
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