The Home Inspector in Spain

We generally recommend consulting real estate surveyors BEFORE you purchase property. And what we recommend back home in the UK or US should be made mandatory in Spain: You, as a real estate purchaser, usually speak little to no Spanish and don’t know all that much about the local rules of architecture and other customs. So, why “buy a pig in a poke”? Especially here on the Costa del Sol, the legal situation of some of the property is complicated. Because of an amendment to the law (ley de Suelo 07/2002), many of the properties have been categorised as illegal, even if there is a valid planning permission. Still, since 2012, those properties can be legalised again, although not all of them.