The Municipality of Spata–Artemida pays at least 547,000 euros a year in rent for premises that are not schools: the administrative offices, four senior citizens’ centres, the Social Policy Department, the municipal veterinary clinic, a car park, event venues and the hall where the Artemida Local Council meets. The figure is derived from the payments uploaded to ‘Diafania’ from October 2025 to the present day: for each lease, we took the most recent rent payment and extrapolated it to an annual figure. Along with the schools, which, as we wrote on 11 October cost over 860,000 euros a year, the council spends more than 1.4 million euros a year on rent.
One building, 43 per cent of the total
The largest lease is for the building on the corner of Dim. Chr. Bekas and Vas. Pavlou Streets in Spata, which houses the administrative, technical and financial departments. The Municipality rents the ground floor, first and third floors from the company AFOI LOUKA E.T.K. S.A. for 19,500 euros a month, or 234,000 euros a year. The payment for the period from 29 September to 28 October was posted today, Wednesday 14 October. The lease expires on 28 January 2030, meaning that, at the current rent, a further €760,000 will be paid for the same building by that date.
The remaining leases
- Municipal veterinary clinic: 12,750 euros per quarter, 51,000 per year, until 19 January 2035.
- Social Policy Department: €9,600 per quarter, €38,400 per year, until 5 June 2037.
- Four Senior Citizens’ Centres: Artemida Senior Citizens’ Centre No. 2: 24,000 euros per year; Artemida Senior Citizens’ Centre No. 1: 18,000; and the two halls of Spata Senior Citizens’ Centre No. 1: 18,000 and 12,000. Total: 72,000 euros, with contracts expiring in 2037 and 2038.
- Venues for events: one building with a plot of land for 26,400 euros per year and a second plot for 10,200, both until July 2027.
- Two premises for municipal services in Artemida: €24,000 per year until 31 March 2031 and €25,200 until 14 May 2031.
- Plot of land for a car park in Artemida: 24,000 euros per year, until 2 January 2033.
- Artemida Local Council Chamber: €18,000 per year, until 30 September 2037.
- Section of public land in Alyki for sporting activities, from the Public Property Company: €16,190.97 for the seventh year of the lease, following a 4.4 per cent increase based on the consumer price index, until 2033.
- Water tank: €665.52 per month, approximately €8,000 per year, until the end of 2026.
New contracts until 2038, with pay rises
Two of the KAPI (the municipal day centres for older people) centres had their contracts renewed in early 2026, and the rent rose significantly. For the Artemida Senior Citizens’ Centre (No. 2), the council was paying €1,155.01 per month under a contract that expired on 31 January 2026. Under the new contract, which expires on 31 January 2038, it pays €2,000 per month – 73 per cent more. For the first hall at the 1st Spata Senior Citizens’ Centre, the rent rose from €692.04 to €1,000 per month (+44.5 per cent), also until 2038.
Most new contracts are for twelve years. This means that the decisions taken in 2025 and 2026 will bind the council for three municipal terms of office.
The Local Council Chamber: nine months’ pay in a single payment
The most recent lease is for the meeting room used by the Artemida Municipal Community and the town’s associations. The Municipal Council assessed the need in Decision 27/2025; the tender was announced in April 2025; and the Municipal Committee awarded the lease on two occasions: the first decision (309/2025) was revoked, and Decision 502/2025 re-approved it with new minutes from the committee. The agreement was signed on 1 October 2025, for 1,500 euros per month and a term of 12 years.
The payment posted today covers a total of nine months, from October 2025 to June 2026, amounting to 13,500 euros. The landlord’s three invoices are dated 31 December 2025, 6 March and 24 July 2026, meaning that the first quarter is settled more than nine months later. Meanwhile, at the end of August, the owner assigned the claim to a third party, and the money is going to that party. The July–September 2026 quarter has not yet appeared on the Diafania transparency portal.
What the bill doesn’t show
This figure represents the minimum total. It only includes payment orders labelled ‘rent’ in the Diaugia system, so a tenancy paid under a different description may be missing. Nor does it include the building housing the 4th Primary School of Artemida, which ‘Aigeas’ is paying for until 31 October before the lease was transferred to the Municipality.
Whether it is in the municipality’s best interests to continue renting or to acquire its own buildings is a question that any resident may ask. The next opportunity is the municipal authority’s accountability session on Thursday 29 October: questions must be submitted by 25 October.
Source: Municipality of Spata–Artemida, rent payment orders on the ‘Diaugia’ transparency portal from 1 October 2025 to 14 October 2026 (including, amongst others, 6Δ1ΔΩ1Χ-9Κ7 and ΨΖΖ8Ω1Χ-3ΚΧ, 14 October 2026).
