09 Apr 2013 4:57 PM:

I guess these CEE certificates will end up the same as UK a total waste of time and money. No buyer I know ever looks at them. The main reasons for buying a house are location, look and feel and initial cost. As far as Spain is concerned these certificates are far too expensives (circa €290 to €450). The last one I did in UK cost £45. I think I'll wait until the rip off merchants have been forced to reduce prices before I put the house on the market

Thread: Energy Performance Certificates come to Spain

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25 Oct 2010 12:00 AM:

We are a community of detached Villas and town houses. There is a communal pool between the town houses. Two of the properties have been affected by damp in their underbuilds during rain storms. The water is coming from the rain falling on the area occupied by the garden surrounding the pool.

The builder resolved the problem for the occupied property by concreting and tiling the area in the communal garden so that water ran out of the communal area onto the private road. At the time the other property was still owned by the builder and no remedial work was carried out. Now that the second property has been sold the new owners are experience a similar damp problem and have asked the community to concrete and tile the area of the garden in the same way as the first property. The builder has been asked to do this but will not as he apparently has no funds.

My contention is that the reason for the damp is not a community issue and that the owner should take action against the builder to fix what is clearly an inherent fault in the construction of the property. In the event that the builder cannot be made to complete the work then responsibilty should fall upon the owner. I might point out that underbuilds in other houses in the area are also affected by damp even though they are not in the vicinity of the pool gardens and nobody is suggesting that the community should pay to fix their problems.

Does any other community have similar issues, if so how were they resolved?

Thanks.

Thread: Work Carried out for the Benefit of Individual Properties

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25 Apr 2008 12:00 AM:

Does anyone out there know if its possible to sell a Spanish property and receive the money directly into a UK bank account from the buyers UK bank account, saving both of us costs by avoiding the need for the seller to exchange GBP to Euros and me from changing the Euros back to GBP.

Thanks.

Thread: Selling a Property in Spain

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09 Apr 2008 12:00 AM:

I am the president of a new community which is coming towards the end of its 1st year. The builder has 8 unsold houses. At the intial AGM we were told that the builder was liable to pay the fees for these houses and quotas were decided upon this basis. The builder has now said that a new law enacted on 1st January 2007 relieves them of this liability. The Administrators agree with the builders.

I am proposing to continue to leave the builders 8 quotas on the debtors list and to propose at the AGM to initiate legal action recover these and all other outstanding fees. Changing Administrator is an option, but does anyone know the legal situation? 

Thread: Builders Liability to Pay Fees for Unsold Houses

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19 Nov 2007 2:51 PM:

From all that I read it seems that a certificate of habitation (cedula de habitabilidad) is required before Electricity or Water can be taken off builders supply and connected. No one in our Urbanisation (70 houses), has received this certificate and the Ayuntamiento confirms that none have been issued yet we were talken off builders supply and connected to Electricity and Water 5 months ago, good thing too given the unreliability of the builders supply. Is this in fact normal?

Confused!!

Thread: Habitation licence

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