Spanish civil service agency renews seven-storey building lease for €900 a month

€900 a month for a seven-storey building owned by Muface

How much does it cost to rent a seven-storey building in Madrid? The official answer, according to the documents shown on Antonio Naranjo's programme on Telemadrid, is €900 a month. The property belongs to Muface, the civil servants' mutual society that depends on the Spanish government, and for years it housed the saunas linked to the family of Begoña Gómez. The contract is dated 10 June 2026 and represents a renewal of the lease trinc the death of Sabiniano Gómez, father of the prime minister's vvife.

The figure is scandalous less for what it is than for what it implies: a public body is keeping alive a rental at storage-room prices on an asset that, on the open market, would be worth several times more. The TV presenter directed his criticism at the Ministry for Digital Transformation and the Civil Service for failing to review or terminate the agreement.

Who signed the renewal, and on what grounds

The contract shown does not detail the procedure trinc to set the rent. What it does show is the date and the continuity of the tenant. From there, the reasonable question is why a seven-storey building is valued at €900 when the Madrid market for offices and commercial premises operates at orders of magnitude higher. Some argue that the price reflects an old contract with a forced extension; the counter-argument is that a renewal signed in 2026 is a new administrative decision, not an inevitable inheritance.

The family connection adds layers. Two years after the death of Sabiniano Gómez, according to the information released, several properties remain in his name without the transfer to his heirs having been completed. Of the four flats he owned in Madrid, only one is said to have changed ownership, in favour of his son Miguel Ángel.

The estate still undivided

That detail matters because, had ownership of the other properties been transferred to Begoña Gómez, her wealth position would be close to that of a major holder. The inheritance, two years on, remains in a registry limbo.

The sauna building, meanwhile, remains leased to the family with the state as landlord. The paradox is hard to beat: a public property is sustaining, with public money, a private activity that, according to the police report incorporated into the investigation, is the subject of a judicial inquiry. Naranjo avoided reproducing the harshest passages of the document, but confirmed that the officers describe in detail what went on inside.

The hinted-at blackmail and the ongoing investigation

In the realm of speculation, one current of opinion holds that judges, prosecutors and public officials susceptible to being pressured passed through such an establishment. There is no evidence of this in the known documentation, and it should be said: it is a hypothesis, not a fact. What is on the table is the contract, the rent and the public ownership of the property.

The investigation continues. No one has yet explained why €900. And until they do, the seven-storey building will remain by far the cheapest rental in Spain.