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Most Spanish property commentators have been reporting the problems that have beset the Town Hall of Marbella in recent times. Corruption scandals, dodgy planning consents, overbuilding………we´ve seen it all.
Since the last ´legal´ Town Hall plan in 1986, developers have run amok in the Marbella property market, with common practices that have included overbuilding on plots of land, and building of apartment blocks on land deemed fit for other purposes such as parkland and green zones. All of this had gone on in recent times during the years of greed and corruption that fuelled the Spanish property boom of the late 90s and early 00s, with several notable Marbella politicians caught up in allegations of bribery and corruption.
Now that the Marbella Town Hall has been forced to clean up its act, and with the involvement of the Junta de Andalucia, the powerful regional governing body, we expect to see a new Town Hall plan any day now. We have been told to expect the plan in November…………..although whether that means November this year is anybody´s guess!
The new plan will supposedly give us all clarity on the status of all those overbuilt projects, with the expectation being that all Marbella properties and developments that were purchased in good faith will be finally ratified by the Town Hall and we can emerge from this legal minefield and move on. Until then, we are faced with various scare stories of developers being forced to hand over land to the Town Hall in lieu of fines that cannot be paid, and calls for the property owners themselves to compensate the Town Hall if the original developer doesn´t cough up…………….a highly likely scenario given that most of the developers have gone to the wall in recent months.
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