Important tax changes – Comaskey Properties

IMPORTANT: TAXES CHANGES APPLIED FROM TODAY 6th August 2013 The Valencian region is applying from today (6th August) an increase in some taxes. The main changes are: PURCHASE TAX increase from 8% to 10% and STAMP DUTY TAX (for mortgage, new buildings, and others) increased from 1.2% to 1.5%. THESE CHANGES WERE APPROVED […]

SPANISH SOLUTIONS JULY NEWSLETTER – Comaskey Properties

JULY 2013 NEWSLETTER INHERITANCE One of the most complicated things to have to deal with is when you are the beneficiary of an inheritance. We provide you with comprehensive advice from when you make your own Will with a view to your inheritors to dealing with executing the will. The main activities […]

Fun Day – Comaskey Properties

Spanish Solution to a fun day Comaskey Properties and Spanish Solutions are hosting a fun day at their new joint La Zenia offices on Friday 6th September 2013 in support of Torrevieja Costa Lions Club. The event will commence at 1100 hrs and go on throughout the afternoon until 1700 hrs. Already planned […]

Seth Godin tells us how to buy Property in Spain – Comaskey Properties

Seth Godin writes the best business and marketing in the world, fact. In order to save Seth´s lawyers the difficulty of contacting us I´d like to say, all of the intelligent stuff in this blog was stolen directly form the aforementioned Godin and modified here as we see it relating to buying Costa Blanca […]

CHANGES TO THE SPANISH URBAN RENTAL LAW – Comaskey Properties

As many of us know there are a plethora of properties in Spain empty without tenants. Why?? Some of the reasons are – the imbalance between the rights of the Tenant and those of the Landlord which make the latter wary of taking the risk of putting the property on the rental market. […]

Spanish Solutions May 2013 Newsletter – Comaskey Properties

May 2013 NEWSLETTER ENERGY PERFORMANCE CERTIFICATE (Or Energy Efficiency Certificate) On the 1st June 2013 the new law comes into force that all properties in Spain for sale or rent must have a valid Energy Performance Certifcate. The certificate will be valid for 10 years and will need to be produced at the notary […]

May 2012 Newsletter – Comaskey Properties

MAY NEWSLETTER Elche Football Club At the time of going to print, it looks like not even Elche can blow this and the region will have a representative at the top table in Spanish football next season.They currently sit 12 points clear at the top of the second division having played two games […]

Where Did It All Go Wrong for Spanish Football – Comaskey Properties

In injury time at the end of Malaga´s champions league game against Dortmund in Dortmund, you would have put your heavily-mortgaged house on the certainty that there would be three Spanish clubs in the semi finals of Europe’s premier tournament and at least one in the final. Three weeks later, we have an all German […]

Energy Performance Certificates In Spain – Comaskey Properties

In keeping with the two certainties of living, owning and working in Spain, the government last week announced the details of the new ‘energy performance certificate’ law and it is a clear as a barrel of mud. The other certainty followed and already estate agents and a new breed of opportunist, the out of […]