AN improved tram link between Benidorm and the Marina Baixa Hospital in Villajoyosa was officially inaugurated on Tuesday after refurbishment work costing nearly €40 million.

Work included revamping the stations at Cala Finestrat and Terra Mitica including better accessibility.

A lift had also been installed at the Hospital stop with direct access to the medical facility.

PEREZ LLORCA, TUESDAY

The TRAM d’Alacant Line 1 improvements cover just over six kilometres of track with full electrification and the construction of a bridge over the Murtal ravine.

Work took 16 months to finish and necessitated five months of replacement bus services earlier this year.

Valencian president, Juanfran Perez Llorca, attended Tuesday’s ceremony.

He said the project responded to demand to improve public transport to meet current needs and population growth.

“This is a qualitative leap in connectivity which provides a better connect with the area’s basic services like the hospital,” he commented.

Perez Llorca said other improvements in the pipeline included the tram line between Avenida Beniarda and the intermodel stop in front of Benidorm’s bus station as well as doubling the track between Albir and Altea on Line 9.

He said the planned enhancements budgeted at €30 million will include the electrification of the line between Benidorm’s Intermodal stop and Garganes station in Altea.
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PROPERTY sales in Alicante province clocked up 46,334 deals in the first 10 months of 2025, according to the National Institute of Statistics(INE).

That cumulative total is above 2007 figures which were in the middle of a property boom and stood then at 46,196 by the end of October.

The INE says that 5,160 transactions were carried out in October- making it the busiest month of the year in the region.

BUSY PROPERTY MARKET

Only the much more populated Madrid and Barcelona areas recorded higher numbers.

Nearly 80% of sales were second-hand homes but new constructions totalled 1,060 sales, the second highest figure for the year, behind January.

The big difference with 18 years ago is the level of new build sales.

In 2007, there were 19,460 new homes sold between January and October, while in the same cumulative period this year, the total was just over 9,000.

Nationally, the online property poral Pisos.com said it was the second-highest sales total for 17 years.

The platform’s director of studies, Ferran Font, described them as ‘great figures’.

Font commented that despite a slight drop compared to 2024, the property market continues to show ‘great activity, installed at historic levels’.

He added: “Demand is high leading to expected price increases plus better interest rates via mortgages”.

“Because demand is exceeding supply, for the short term at least, the price rises are expected to continue.”
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