Kategori: Conveyancing & Property Law @da

De Cotta Law’s Gisele van Meer Conveyancing Partner at Second Home Expo

We’re just back from Brussels, where we attended the ‘Second Home International Expo’ with one of our real estate partners, SLG Property. From left to right: Ron de Vries (SLG Property); Gisele van Meer (De Cotta Law); Willem Bruins (SLG Property) As an independent law firm, we are not aligned with any one single real […]

Holiday Home Owners Automatically Debited Taxes & Fines – The Spanish Tax Office is now issuing private bank embargoes for failure to pay non-resident taxes

With Spain’s desire to improve its public accounts deficit, the tax collecting infrastructure has been significantly improved, enabling the tax office to recoup back taxes faster and more efficiently than ever before. This now commonly includes automatic debiting of owed taxes and late payment fines direct from non-resident bank accounts in Spain. As a holiday […]

New hope for Brits trying to recover property deposits

When the housing bubble in Spain burst a few years ago, many international investors were left significantly out of pocket. These were large institutional investors, these were Northern Europeans, regular working people, that had invested life savings into buying their dream homes, off plan in Spain Whens some ofthese homes were never finished, as developers […]

Spain’s New Mortgage Law – Helping home owners in arrears

The economic crisis has hit Spain particularly hard and the subsequent high unemployment and economic hardship in this country has led to record levels of mortgage arrears and evictions. The recent Law 1/2013 of May 14, for mortgage holders, is intended to respond to the growing demand to help home owners that are encountering issues […]

EU Court rules that Spanish mortgage law is incompatible with European Law

In today’s ‘El Pais’ newspaper, the national Spanish periodical, the front page story is that the EU Court in Luxembourg considers present Spanish mortgage law to be incompatible with European Law as it prevents Judges from protecting home owners from evictions. The report goes on to say that the Spanish legislation is contrary to a […]

THE OWNERSHIP OF A SPANISH PROPERTY BY A LIMITED COMPANY

There can be advantages in purchasing or transferring Spanish property into the name of a UK limited company. There can be a significant saving on inheritance tax in Spain where there is no spouse exemption for non residents. Some companies are offering to set up standard structures but where the current tax value of the […]

Anbefaling – Thomas Gant De Cotta Law

Når den professionelle bistand af en advokat er påkrævet, er det sandsynligt at det sker på et tidspunkt med højt stress, og køb/salg af ejendom er ingen undtagelse. Thomas Gant López fra Advokatkontoret De Cotta Mckenna y Santafé i Nerja fortjener vores højeste ros for sine evner til at reducere stressniveauet blandt alle involverede parter. […]

A Lasting Power of Attorney for UK assets

What is a Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA)? It is a legal document that appoints someone to undertake actions and execute documents on your behalf. Often used by those that wish to plan ahead and set out in advance what they would like to happen should they become unable to make decisions for themselves in […]