Our Blog is designed to keep you up to date with developments of Spanish law and news.
You will also find some of our Top Tips for different areas of law to give you some key advice when requiring legal services in Spain. If you cannot find what you are looking for or would like to discuss a matter further, please contact us.
Pressures on Spanish Housing
Spain does not have enough accommodation for its own population nor to meet the high demand created by the boom in ‘residential tourism’; the result of this will be to make good property in Spain a valuable investment.
Brexit Affect on the Spanish Property Market
The British led the foreigners buying in Spain with 15.01% total property sales, despite Brexit.
Regulation for the Real Estate Sector in Spain
Guidelines have now been issued for real estate agents in parts of Spain. Here’s our overview of how the new regulations could look and the changes ahead.
Real Estate Seminar
We are excited to invite Costa del Sol Estate Agents to join our full morning of Real Estate Updates for the Spanish Market! This FREE event will take place on 21 June 2018 at La Sala Banus in Puerto Banus.
You and the Law in Spain
David Searl’s ‘You & the Law in Spain’, updated regularly for the past 30 years, has been re-launched by its new publisher and co-author, Alex Radford. The book is the ‘complete and readable guide to Spanish Law for foreigners’.
5 things you should know about the floor clause
Much has been written recently about the floor clause (Clausula Suelo) in Mortgages. My Lawyer in Spain investigate what this is and how you can find out if you have one.
Brexit not putting off Brits from buying Spanish property and moving to Spain
Many expats in Spain remain concerned about their health rights and pensions increasing in line with UK pensioners’ pensions after Brexit. Both issues have been discussed and it has provisionally been agreed that EU citizens living in the UK before the UK’s departure from the EU will continue to enjoy the same rights as they have enjoyed to date.
Andalucia Increases Inheritance Tax Threshold to One Million Euros!
It’s always nice when the tax burden lightens and this is a good time to say thank you to the Junta de Andalucia for making a forward looking move when they finally agreed to change the rules over inheritance tax.
A Place in the (Spanish) Sun
We will be heading to Birmingham on 22-24 September and Glasgow 28-29 October. The team will be sharing insights and the key facts about buying a property in Spain.
A Place in the Sun – here we come!
After the success for our 8th visit to A Place in the Sun in May in London, My Lawyer in Spain will be visiting A Place in the Sun in September in Birmingham!