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16 Aug 2012 9:46 PM by Susanspain Star rating in Mijas, Malaga. 145 posts Send private message

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We bought at a knockdown price a modest town house in Alhaurin el Grande.

We are slightly worried that the previous owner (who never put the escritura into his name, nor on any other documents relating to the house - but we are in the process of a lawyer applying to court to bring Escritura up to date)... did not apply for a building licence to reform the property.

We did ask our lawyer at the time would this be an issue in the future, but so far we have had no reply.

I am going to push the matter again, especially as we have discovered that basically the house was a virtual re-build, and not just a bit of tidying up to bring it up to a habitable standard. 

Is it best not to poke the hornets nest, and hope it doesn't come back to bite us, or is now the time to find out if there is any likelyhood of fines in retrospect?

Does anyone know if there is a time limit on which the town hall/junta can chase a case if they were to decide to dish out fines in retrospect? Etc, etc. 

We are holding final payment until next year as this is what we agreed with the vendor. (And have this in a notarised contract.) 

Any sensible advice welcome.  

 

(PS I have heard of people in La Alqueria - near Mijas Pueblo -  being fined for over building, when they had licences but pushed it beyond its limits. But even though they paid the fines, later this meant nothing and they were told to knock down the buildings!!)

 





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