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Spanish Senate rejects homeowners bid to improve the reliability of the Land Registry

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Land Registry still not obliged to record existence of planning irregularities or demolition orders Homeowners associations from across Spain failed in their bid to persuade the Spanish Senate to vote in favour of an amendment to the law regulating the Land Registry aimed at protecting buyers who purchase a house with a clean bill of health from a Land Registry Search (Nota Simple) only to find that the property has planning issues or even a Continue reading Spanish Senate rejects homeowners bid to improve the reliability of the Land Registry→

Arboleas finds 2000 missing homes

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One of the mysteries of modern life in Spain was how Arboleas “only” had 1.320 homes. I mean, there are urbanisations out there with more than that, so why weren’t they accounted for? Well, the Mayor, possibly because he spotted an extra source of income, appointed someone to update the official catastro, and the report has come back. The chap went round counting them all, and found an extra 1953 homes nobody knew existed. So Continue reading Arboleas finds 2000 missing homes→

Planning Process to be online within 4 years

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Su Excelentisimo D. Francisco Ros Perán, La Secretaría de Estado de Telecomunicaciones y para la Sociedad de la Información (Secretary of State for Telecommunications and for the Information Society; old Fran Ros is a chap with extra large business cards and who incidentally hails from Lorca, Murcia)  has announced, together with the public company “red.es” and the Ministry of Housing an ambitious project to put all planning processes online within 4 years. The Programa de Continue reading Planning Process to be online within 4 years→