What happens if I buy a Spanish property with no reference value?
Avoid having to pay interest and penalties on your purchase of a property in Spain by following these recommendations. Reference value. Dirección General…
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A question of passports: How can a discrepancy of passport numbers could affect the sale of your Spanish property?
Interesting as it looks, in Spain, passport numbers do not change with each passport renewal. The passport holder keeps the passport number for…
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OXFORD BLUES
Some reflections on the firm´s annual conference in Oxford, the legal profession and the importance to treat clients as guests.
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How to prepare the completion of a client´s property purchase in Spain in less than 5 days (and not die in the attempt)
A powerful title that could easily be the title of a book or a film. What was the name of that film with…
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Who pays the estate agent´s fees in a property transaction?
There is no better source for the creation of an article than life per se, or at least, a lawyer´s daily practice. This…
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Who pays the Spanish inheritance tax in a Spanish estate?
A question I get very often, both from executors dealing with UK estates and from UK solicitors who find themselves handling the affairs…
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Can a UK charity inherit assets in Spain?
Sometimes clients get upset with their lawyers. Its something inevitable, like rain in September or Germany classifying for the world-cup semifinals even when…
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Lawyers acting for their friends (and the blurred lines in between)
This Friday, while being at the birthday party of one of my best friends in Barcelona, I had the opportunity to put closure…
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Three deaths, one Spanish property and a bookstore story
As some of you may know, we have an office in the rainy city of Manchester. In fact, this office was Gunnercooke´s first…
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Ahi te dejo Madrid
So it says Shakira´s famous song. There I leave you Madrid . However, in my case, it was not due to a bad…
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