Quite often we get enquiries from someone who has bought a second home in Spain with their partner, friends or family, and who for various reasons cannot or does not want to continue with their co-ownership.
Spain’s legal system offers a judicial solution for those cases where one of the co-owners refuses to sell given that no-one is obliged to continue in joint ownership: the wish of one co-owner to sell obliges the fellow owners to sell as well.
Here we look at two solutions to this problem. Continue reading “DISSOLUTION OF JOINT OWNERSHIP”
If you have bought a property off-plan, or are thinking of buying one, you need to be aware that the law in Spain changed in 2016 and this might affect you.
The right of entry and departure, free circulation, stay, residence, permanent residence and work in Spain for citizens of other EU nation states, and those states which are part of the European Economic Area, is regulated by Law Real Decreto 240/2007, of 16 February modified by Real Decreto 987/2015, of 30 October.
Once we have taken the decision to sell our second home, we ask our advisor how much tax we will have to pay on the profit or capital gain, assuming there is one. Indeed, in some cases the Ayuntamientos punish taxpayers (i.e. vendors) with an unexpected and excessive municipal tax on a non-existent gain when the vendors are selling their property for the same price they paid for it years previously.