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We are buying the house as a 5 bedroom house which is what's stated on the deeds. This includes the bedrooms in the underbuild so do you think that would be OK.?

Advice would be to, ask lawyer to check that underbuild, as underbuild accommodation, was a part of the original planning 

permission for the property or if added later full Planning Permission had been obtained and registered to make it rooms for 

habitation with a habitation licence?

It is essential that any changes to the structure of the property or its use have obtained Planning Permission in full,

and are then added legally by a lawyer to the property deeds. 

The result of this are 1. when you come to sell the property you are unable to sell it as the property does not match the deeds

or 2. the growing number of Spanish councils conducting property checks with police in attendance to unearth illegal property

changes. Then the results: pull down all parts of the illegal development/change, heavy fines or prison.

So really worth the checks.

When we purchased our property it originally had some land attached to it, which had been sold by the previous owners but 

never changed on the deeds. It cost the previous owner 15,000€ to change everything legally so that they could actually sell the 

property plus a 10,000€ fine and they were told the fine was on the light side!

Hoping this is useful

Hi Pauline,

I have asked my solicitor to look into this for me.🤞Thanks for the advice.