Advice and Technical Help

If you are thinking of buying a property in Spain you will need a sound knowledge of the legal requirements involved. With Tropicana Properties SL as your Estate Agent, we can offer you a wide selection of local lawyers who we will work closely with while you are away. We will always act in your best interest, making sure that all the legal and financial issues are addressed.

Buying a property in Spain can often be a smooth and painless exercise. When a property is being sold with a registered title deed, we are happy to organise all the contractual requirements through to completion for you. Our minimum fee would be 250 Euros payable on completion at the Public Notary office. However, we have found that over the years some of our client’s individual and specific requirements are best served by a legal representative. Your Spanish lawyer is there to help, advise and guide you not only when you buy but through to wills and testate.

Do remember that all legal documents are in Spanish, and only documents in Spanish are legally recognised in Spanish courts. Our team will happily translate any of these to you at the time. It is usual that the initial purchase contract (contrato de compraventa) is the only document that is offered in both Spanish and English. It is the obligation of the Almuñécar Public Notary office to provide an official translator at no extra cost to you the buyer on the day of completion and confirm your understanding and agreement of exactly what you are signing.

As a client you will usually have funds in place in your home country ready to purchase a property in Spain, and often you arrive without having sufficient funds available in your Spanish bank account upon which to draw. At Tropicana Properties we can arrange for a smaller deposit (1,000 Euros) to be accepted as part payment towards the non-refundable payment of 10% to the vendor when signing the contact of sale. This helps you to secure the property, and effectively takes it "off the market", as well as allowing you up to 2 weeks to arrange your payment of the balance of the deposit to be transferred from your home country. In our experience we have found that clients need time to raise this amount of money, but do not want to risk losing their purchase.

Select a link on the left hand side for more information about the procedures and associated costs involved. You should also consider the running costs or yearly outgoings to maintain the property, namely the Annual Real Estate Tax (IBI), the community fees (where applicable), rubbish collection, water rates, electricity charges together with Property Income and Wealth Tax.