A Simple Note!
Friday, August 14, 2009 @ 2:09 PM
Yippee!!
Did I say waiting for birthday cards to arrive? This is birthday, Christmas and holidays all rolled into one.
Just about half an hour after furnishing my request to the Registro up pops their reply, a Nota Simple Informativa in all its glory.
I have managed to do in less than 24 hours (and in the middle of the holiday season) what no estate agent has done for me to date despite repeated requests. If it were possible, my low opinion of this ilk would be even lower. Where the personal visit to the actual Registro involved? Where the 48 hour wait? If I hadn´t taken it upon myself to visit the local office, this could have been done and dusted yesterday without my bum having to be lifted from my nice comfy chair. Words, as I´m sure they will be glad to hear, fail me (or at least publishable ones).
But anyway, to the document now in hand.
Does it tell me everything I want to know? Well actually no it doesn´t, as the (English) Notices and Warnings informs me, only a Registry Certificate will tell me about third-party liens on the place.
What it does do, however, is give me more information than I had (I told you I was an information junkie) and, what is more important, it confirms as correct the information of which I was already in possession.
One step forward along the road!
To understand the contents fully will take a little time but if anybody out there can tell me what IDUFIR means that would be a start.
Update: Found it. the IDUFIR is the unique identifier of any registered property in Spain (a property DNI, if you will) See Glossary for link to explanation (in Spanish).