22 Jan 2018 5:26 PM:
Hola Amigos - I have just purchased a small apartment in Torrevieja and intend to spend time there during the low season. I'd very much like to make contact with anyone of similar interests to me who might like to meet up from time to time for a coffee/glass of wine and some stimulating conversation! I am a retired lecturer in history but I am interested in most things including languages (French, Spanish and Russian), literature, politics, theatre, music (singing and recorder playing), TV, health, theology, etc. A few contacts would make it easier to settle in and feel at home quickly and, of course, it would be splendid to be able to benefit from the experience of others who have a good working knowledge of how a Spanish town operates. Thank you for reading this.
Graham
Forum thread: Winter in Torrevieja
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21 Nov 2015 4:58 PM:
Hello All
I have been an EoS member for some time but have not signed on for quite a lomg time and cannot remember whether this is my first post or not! Thank you for reading this anyway and I shall be grateful for any response.
Recently, I purchased a mobile home on a park inland from Malaga and was told at the time, that IBI was not levied on mobile homes as they were classed differently. Since then, I have received a letter from the park owner to the effect that we are now liable due to a legal decision. As I understand it, the park owner will collect the tax and then remit it to the authorities. Is there anyone else in this position? It seems to me a rather odd and egregious decision considering that a mobile home is not freehold and is the subject of a licence to occupy and not a lease or a title deed. Having said that, might paying the IBI give the home owners a more secure position and greater recognition given that park owners currently have a great deal of control over disposal of the homes and can make arbitrary decisions without there being any apparent recourse to mediation? Finally, ought the mobile home owner to be paying this tax directly to the authorities rather than via a third party?
Thank you
Graham
Forum thread: IBI on static caravans
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25 Apr 2009 1:47 PM:
It is worth noting that Rudina is advertising Balcones apartments on a 'key-ready' site for 99k euros so you might have to revise your selling price dramatically to secure a sale! Best of luck, anyway.
Graham
Community thread: Just about to complete... so
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26 Jan 2009 8:52 PM:
Re Message from Swiftmaister:
According to information from residents of Balcones, there does not seem to have been any construction work on Mirador for the last two months; the only work in progress is on the Commercial Centre.
It may well be time to start showing some concern. I have already been in touch with my intermediaries (Martin Clews) and have even suggested that the builder might offer unsold apartments in Balcones to Mirador purchasers on a quid pro quo basis thereby providing him with an income stream and also enabling him to mothball the development for a time and resume and remarket it at a more propitious juncture against the background of a more lively and populated Balcones.
I would suggest, perhaps, contacting your agents to ask for an update and keep up some pressure. I shall be in Spain from the end of this month and will try to ascertain as much information as possible.
Regards
Graham (Mirador 33)
Community thread: Mirador
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21 Dec 2008 2:20 PM:
Dear William
An interesting question. I was in Spain recently but was unable to visit Iznalloz (or, more accurately, the weather on the coast was so agreeable I did not feel like contending with the icy blasts inland!). I did enquire about progress and was assured by Andrew Segal of Martin Clews (the lead agent) that everything was going smoothly bar some delays caused by horrendous weather conditions especially torrential rain. I shall be out there for 2 to 3 months after Christmas so will certainly organise a foray to the development. I think that we can only hope that Rudina, because of its modest size and lack of desire to swallow up competitors on the basis of massive debt, will survive the crisis. Having vacillated for ten years as to whether to purchase in Spain and then having succumbed at the least propitious moment in recent history, I should take it ill if the whole project were to collapse, although if the bank guarantee proved to be effective, I might be rather less distraught! If I hear more I will contact you and would be grateful if you would do likewise.
Best wishes
Graham (32)
Community thread: Question about Mirador
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