Posted: Mon May 16, 2022 9:57am
It will take ages and a solicitor in Marbella, though I say it myself, is not the best to deal with purchasing and checking details of a house near El Colorado/Pago de Humo.
The architect is right you can ask your estate agent and he should tell the truth but my experience is that even though I have been very specific the agent skipped around a direct answer. Luckily, my daughter has lived here for 30 years and has tons of experience with property knows where to go to get the right answers. My first port of call was to ask for the 'nota simple'
from the iternet:
A nota simple is a non-certified document issued by the Land Registry that contains information about a property: type of property, name, ownership, rights, size, type, boundaries, liens and encumbrances
In principle, the owner/builder should be able to supply you with this. I was looking at a property for a friend. Agent British. Asked for the nota simple and after three weeks I got one only to find out that the property was not allowed to be used as a bed and breakfast! If the agent didn't know this he should have as I had stipulated it was for a bed and breakfast.