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What Our Clients Say
The Safe Purchase Guarantee includes provisions that protect the rights accorded by your title deeds for the next 20 years of your ownership.
We have already helped many innocent property owners and the testimonies of those clients featured below will give you an idea of the types of problems that can and continue to occur.
In all cases, these problems were unknown, hidden or unforeseen at the time of purchase, but fortunately for these people they were able to benefit from the provisions of the Safe Purchase Guarantee and enjoy a positive, satisfactory outcome. |
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Vendor Was Not The Real Owner |
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Non-Existent Parking Space |
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Neighbour Claimed My Property |
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I started to feel worried after reading a piece of news published in most of the mass-media. It was about the fictitious sale of houses carried out by a gang of swindlers which operated throughout the country from Catalonia to Castille... |
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I purchased a newly-built house which included a parking place, oddly enough with the number 13. When I went to inspect the property I noticed there was not a place with that number. After a great number of objections, complaints... |
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I am a retired Englishman that has always dreamed of retiring to Spain in a small house by the sea. Not only did I seek good professional legal advice but I also contracted title deeds insurance which I had heard about in my country... |
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Community Fees Were Too High |
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Builder Forgot My Storage Room |
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For me, having title deeds insurance has saved me a great deal of money. When I purchased my house I realised that I was paying higher community expenses each month than I should have been. The participation rate for my house had... |
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I am Spanish man who lives in Copenhagen for professional reasons. A year ago I purchased a newly-built house with a parking space and storage room. I signed the title deed before the works had finished and when the developer... |
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My problem started when the woman that had sold me her house begged me to allow her to stay in it. At the time, it did not matter to me so I permitted her to stay for a short while. After 6 months of polite requests, my patience had run out... |
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Flat Was Commercial Premises |
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Private Balcony Not For Public Use |
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House Sold Without Wife's Consent |
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It was my first house purchase and my parents told me to get good advice. So I did and an estate agency found me a basement property that I could afford and a financial consultant looked for a lender for me. After carrying out an... |
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I was sold a house with the exclusive right to a balcony facing a garden of common use. Some months later, my neighbour told me that the community was trying to get the balcony reconsidered as common area and therefore, a common... |
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A member of my family got himself into a terrible situation when he purchased a property that was everything he wanted. The problem was that the seller had separated from his wife in quite unfriendly circumstances and, profiting from her... |
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House Had Hidden Lease In Force |
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Parking Space Was Not Big Enough |
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Demolition Due To Illegal Works |
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You can read in the title deeds of my house the words "free of charges and taxes" and "there are not leaseholders or occupants". The reality was quite different and there existed a lease contract between the previous owner and a ... |
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I purchased a property from a developer as as a special offer. The house included a parking place in the basement of the flat. Before buying it, they showed me the plans of the house many times including the fantastic parking place I was about... |
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I am South American and I came to Spain to work. When I had managed to save some money I decided to buy a house in Carabanchel (Madrid) and I curse the hour I did so. Months later, when I was living there, I received a letter from... |
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Neighbour Took My Balcony |
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Former Owner Wouldn't Pay Debts |
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I Wasn't Registered As The Owner |
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I purchased my second home that had its own balcony. When I visited in the summer, I was astounded to find that my neighbour had taken advantage of my absence to take over part of my balcony and had even installed a screen... |
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Two months after registering my house, at a meeting of the owners' association I found that out that I had to assume payment of a claim for the improvement of common areas that had been settled and won by an adjacent community of... |
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After I purchase my house, the Land Registry did not allow me to register as the new owner due to retrospective taxes owed by the previous owner. I was upset and immediately got in touch with the title insurance company. They dealt with... |
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Developer's Debts Prevent Registration |
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I purchased a new build in the Canary Islands. After I had signed my title deeds at the notary, it turned out it was impossible to register the property because the developer had not paid the 10 year structural building guarantee... |
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