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Buying a property in Spain – vital information for your lawyer
Of course, most Spanish conveyancing lawyers do not visit the properties that their clients want to buy. That is unusual and not really considered a part of their duty. However, over the years, I have increasingly made it a habit to visit the Spanish pr...
Read MoreBuying property in Spain, checking your intended property
What can be more important than checking the Title Deed of the Spanish property you want to buy – before you even approach a lawyer to do your conveyancing for you? After all, you may find out immediately that the person you are dealing with is not ...
Read MoreBuying Spanish Property on Rustic Land
For years I have been trying to warn clients about buying Spanish property on rustic land. It is possible to do this but extreme caution needs to be exercised and you must ensure that the conveyancing is undertaken by a first class lawyer – and one pr...
Read MoreBuying Spanish property, use an English or Spanish lawyer
When you decide to buy a property abroad, many questions come to your mind. One of these, typically, is whether you should use a UK lawyer or a Spanish lawyer for the conveyancing of your intended Spanish property. Well, I would recommend that you use a S...
Read MoreCadastre and Registry: what to do if estate registers do not match
There are two real estate registers in Spain: the Cadastre, and the Land Registry. They are both meant to formally record characteristics of a property, but it is common for them not to match. Inconsistencies are usually about surface area, volume, bounda...
Read MoreCan a foreigner qualify for a “vivienda protegida”?
The short answer: yes, any foreign citizen with a residence permit can apply for ‘protected housing’. But there is, of course, more to it than that. Properties categorised as Viviendas de Protección Oficial (VPO), or Viviendas Protegidas, are a...
Read MoreCan I park in front of a ‘vado’ sign by my own house?
You’ll have seen the signs on the outside of walls – a circle with a line through it that seems to appear at every spot where you want to park. The ‘vado’ sign is usually found outside garages, entrances to driveways and other places where, if you...
Read MoreCivil Registry Helplines June 2020
These are transcriptions of the notices posted at the Single Civil Registry of Madrid regarding telephone numbers for public information and certificate requests on 3rd June 2020 PUBLIC INFORMATION TELEPHONE NUMBERS CORRECTIONS: 91 493 67 89 MARRIAGES: 91...
Read MoreCommunity debts in Spain within Spanish apartment blocks
Because of the dreadful economic situation in Spain, some owners of apartments in Spain have realized that their fees, which they have to pay every year to the Community of Property Owners for their block, are increasing – because some apartment own...
Read MoreComunicación Agencia Tributaria – Tax Office Letter!
Some months ago a client contacted me saying that he had received a letter from the Spanish Tax Office (Agencia Tributaria) saying that he owns a property in Spain but has never submitted a Spanish Tax Return either as a Spanish Tax Resident or as someone...
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