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Please don't get excited, you will only be dissapointed! 

Larny Hi

what are you saying? I dont understand your comment.

 

I mean we were expecting a lot more visible progress since the last set of photos.

I think the last photo's are suspicious.....it could be one block........another delay tactic? This developer is a slippery fish!!!

 

I have contacted Arlene McCarthy, Chairperson of the EU Consuer Rights Committee to see if she can get my cash back...as I won my case back in early Feb!!!

Just got back from a visit to the site.  Our apartment is virtually finished.  One or two small things need attending to but that's all.  They are shortly going to be polishing the floors and then it will just need a good clean.  Inside walls are painted a creamy colour.  Work is continuing outside on the steps, portals and paved/bricked areas between blocks which will then be planted.  Fencing will link the portals to enclose the development.  Lourdes seems to think they will have the licence of first occupation by Christmas and hand-overs can take place in January.

Thanks Condesa, sounds very promising. Pity if we cant get in by Xmas but after all these years what's another couple of weeks.  I am there first week in December and will try to post photos and a report then, but sounding good so far.

So is Lourdes and Insitu still dealing with any re-sales. I have tried calling and e-mail but get no reply ??

I called Lourdes the other day on (0034)  666 535 920 and got through fine. I was after the contact to give to bank for valuations and she gave me the name Gabriela Menendez on  (0034) 95 290 01 63.

Gabriela is the Banco Pastor bank manager....she does not respond to my emails......hope you get some sense out of her.....I want my deposit back though after the way we have been treated. Been in touch with Arlene McCarthy, Chair of the EU Cusumer rights committee...........I am soooo fed up with La Condesa.

 

We viewed on 9th November and were of the opinion nothing much had been done for a few weeks. Finishing off seems all rather slow and I cannot see that completion will be before end of January at least.

There was still much to do in the grounds, i.e., hard landscaping and planting, the boundary fences are not in place and the pavements around the development had not been started, although drainage channels at the kerbs were in place. The gates were all more or less in place but none of the  intercom wiring to each apartment had been started.

Despite having an appointment we did not manage to view our apartment   because apparently it was being painted. Instead we were shown the apartment next door to ours where there were quite a few jobs still to do. Architrave around the serving hatch was missing as were parts of the marble skirting. Also I  noticed the water heater in the utility rooms do not appear to have been fitted yet. Possibly because they are copper and the lock on the utility room is   not so secure as the one on the apartment. 

'mijasgolf' on this site, otherwise  Bev and Dave and who we met whilst viewing,  has suggested that it might be worth considering putting an iron or retractble gate across the entrance to each apartment as an added security measure for those who will be using as holiday accommodation. I must say I tend to agree with her.

Lourdes (optimistically in my view) insisted completion was not far off , it being January at the latest. I hope she is right. Although she did say that she had been doing the 'snagging' in some blocks.

I took some photo's intending to post them on EOS. They mainly showed the unfinished works. However when we got back home and I viewed the 'smd' site I was pleasantly surprised to find that in the pictures for the 2nd week November they had made much  visible progress with the pathways and there seemed to be extra workmen on site. So I will not post the photo's.

Finally, I have just found a new website which is selling distressed property on La Condesa. I have never seen it before and  I think it could be the last of the unsold properties. Here's the link:-

 http://www.slgproperty.com/la-condesa.html