MORE SPANISH HORROR STORIES
Some time ago I posted a piece listing a few of the more idiosyncratic quirks of Spanish property transfer, but – especially when a Spaniard sells property to a guiri, a Northern European foreigner – the system can throw up the most hair-raising horror stories. Hmm, ‘ throw up ’ is unwittingly apposite. Permission was granted to build 24 houses on a local urbanisacion ( housing estate ), but the developer must have thought “ Hey, there’s a hell of a lot of empty space here, so let’s build an... Sign in to see full entry.