Real Estate and Construction Law

Buying a home is one of the most important decisions we take in our lives, thus the importance of being duly advised.

At Aethicus, we wish to guide you and stand by your side throughout the whole process so that you can buy your home with every guarantee and so avoid problems in the future.

We provide advice to both individuals and companies when buying all sorts of properties: we negotiate and draft purchase and sale contracts, deposit agreements, swaps, plots in exchange for building works, etc.

In addition, we provide advice on and collaborate in the search and sale of properties: plots, buildings, homes, business premises, hotels, industrial facilities, land, etc.

We also help you to find the most advantageous and suitable financing for your needs when acquiring a property, advising you on the subscription of mortgage loans as well as on the modification of those already subscribed.

We provide advice on rental of property both as a home or as business premises, as well as on the transfer of the latter and we take on the judicial defence in rental terms regarding claims for payment, evictions, etc.

We provide advice on horizontal property matters to both communities and individual owners in setting up communities, claims and defence in the event of non-payment, conflict resolution, illegal works, alteration of common elements, implementation of new services, challenging agreements, carrying out accessibility works, etc.

We manage the processing of subsidies to finance the execution of rehabilitation works in housing and collective residential buildings.

Domain registrations and other rights.

Segregations, groupings and aggregations, reparcelations and material division of properties.

Constitution and extinction of easements and other real rights.

Immatriculations: study and processing of rectifications to adapt the physical reality with the Land Registry and its agreement with the Cadastre.

Property boundaries.

Georeferencing of properties.

Processing of procedures for the cancellation of charges and third party ownership.

Interposition of resources before negative qualifications of the Registry of the Property.

Processing and management of deeds.

Settlement of Transfer and Documented Legal Acts and Capital Gains Taxes.

Wills.

Advice and mediation as well as processing and management of inheritances.

If you own several properties, we help you to manage your assets so that you obtain the maximum profitability from them: we draw up and negotiate lease contracts, verify their compliance by filing legal claims if necessary, represent you before communities of owners, provide advice on the purchase and sale of assets, etc.

We advise companies and individuals on the contracting of all types of construction and renovation works.

Defence and claims for discrepancies in contractual compliance.

Claims for amounts due to non-payment in the construction process.

Defence and claims in matters of construction defects in buildings, dwellings and constructions of all kinds, as well as for contractual discrepancies related to the construction of these.

Extinction on commodates and precarious loans. Illegal occupations of property.

We take on your legal defence in expropriation proceedings before the various administrations, ensuring that you obtain the maximum value for your expropriated assets or rights.

If you own a property jointly with others and do not wish to maintain this situation, but cannot reach an agreement with the other co-owners, we help you to put an end to this situation.

We help you with the regularization of unlicensed properties, as well as their registration in the Land Registry, if applicable.

We advise you on the regularization of activities that are not licensed or that, even if licensed, have gone beyond their scope.

We advise on the management and processing of planning: specific modifications, partial plans, public interest actions, etc.

Urban management of action units: advice on the constitution and operation of compensation boards, as well as on the protection of the interests of individuals and companies that are part of them.

Defense in sanctioning proceedings initiated for urban infractions due to buildings or works, activities that lack authorization, etc.

Claims against financial institutions arising from the acquisition of property

Minimum interest rate clauses in mortgage-backed loans.

Claims for unfair collection of mortgage set-up costs.

Mortgages with an IRPH index clause.

Claims against financial entities for amounts paid on account in the purchase and sale of dwellings if they are not finalised in time.