The threat reflected in the title is certainly not insignificant because the case we want to expose, which is more common than it seems, has its origin in the lack of knowledge, sometimes unjustifiable, that the citizen who wants to build a house has of the legal procedures that this implies in accordance with the urbanistic legality and of the…
The Community of Andalucía has approved a decree-law, the Decree-Law 3/2019, of 24st September, from the Regional Andalusian Government, by which a large number of houses that were in an irregular or illegal situation without supplies or a supply network because they had not obtained a building permit at the time or had been rejected, are now regularised or in…
In recent modifications, the law has attributed to the Resident’s Associations of the Horizontal Property Law certain attributions that can affect the right of possession of the owners who are members of above mentioned Association. The ownership of houses regulated by the Horizontal Property Law is a sort of ownership where to the individual right of ownership of each of…
The possibility that the owner of a piece of land that signs a execution works contract may desist from it, whether the construction have started or not, it is a faculty that the Law recognizes, although it solidifies or links certain effects or consequences that we are going to study briefly in this article. The article 1594 of the Civil…
Nowadays and more frequently today we find that some operators of the real estate area, who call themselves real estate agents, lack basic legal technical preparation and professionalism. This is what you pay when an activity doesn’t belong to an association and therefore isn’t controlled, with the exception of the real estate agents’ activity. There are real estate agents whose…
What effect does a state of insolvency of a real estate developer have on the property purchase and sale contracts signed prior to its declaration of insolvency? Buyers of properties may be affected at any given time by the insolvency situation that the real estate developer may experience, and it will be necessary to follow its process and see whether…
One of the biggest concerns a buyer of a new home may have is the risk that damage may appear on it after a while and not having the security of protection when the people who intervened in the construction may have disappeared. Precisely as a result of the doctrine of the Supreme Court and of the legislator’s protection to…
Hidden Defects in Property Purchase What happens if, after acquiring a property, significant defects are discovered that, if known earlier, would have led you to avoid the purchase or negotiate a substantial price reduction? These are known as hidden defects. These are significant defects, not merely finishing flaws It is not uncommon for hidden defects to appear within six months…
This is one of the most frequently asked questions by property owners since it is an issue for them; the fact of facing this inappropiate situation, in which a tenant owes him rent and also the landlord is required to go to court and bear some costs that although he may later recover for now he must advance them. The current…
Can the demolition of a residential area of 52 houses be produced in Spain? This question has an easy answer and is that as we have said in several articles, the buyer has to be very careful when buying the property in Spain and he must to understand that he should use services of lawyers independent of the developer and…
