Postby Wicksey » Wed Nov 03, 2010 6:27 pm
The house and land were purchased by the present owners in 2001, I think, on a compraventa, and the escritura is dated 2003. Presumably it took this time to sort out the division of land which seemed to go through the courts according to what was read out to us from the escritura. The original plot was about 11,500m2 and the plot sold with the house is just under 2,700m2. Our asesoria cannot understand why the catastro was not altered straight away after the deeds were registered as this is normal practice, and she believes that, as Jool has suggested, the law has changed and that the catastro now has to be done first.
As Julian says, we cannot understand that if there is an escritura (there'll be 2 in fact, one for each piece of the divided plot won't there?) showing the split between the owners, why can't we get the catastral office to accept this? I am beginning to wonder if there is some kind of moritorium on accepting any changes or additions to campo land and buildings in case this endangers any fines or prosecutions that may occur in the future.
A few other properties have come up for sale in the area recently but when I look at the catastro maps on-line these houses are on plots that have not been separated from the neighbouring house. It has usually occured when the original Spanish-owned cortijo has been sold off to a foreigner and then the Spanish owner has built themselves a new house on the rest of the plot, but it is all still shown as being one plot according to the catastral records. The original cortijo had been sold off some years ago, so presumably this is going to be the same problem that we already have with the house we are currently trying to buy? In these cases the overall plot size is much smaller as well.
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Wicksey on Thu Jun 13, 2013 3:42 pm, edited 1 time in total.
