Rob20B wrote on Tue Jun 6, 2017 9:19pm:
"firstly you never go with an Abogado/Solicitor/lawyer recommended by the Estate Agent. Conflict of Interest." I would agree that that was certainly the case 10 years ago when lawyers, developers and estate agents all had intertwined personal and financial relationships which were most definitely...
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... dodgy. I don't think that it is quite such a problem now. I did a lot of research about lawyers in advance when we bought last year but still ended up going to Mundi Abogados (http://mundiabogados.com/) who had been recommended by our estate agent Paul Fullard at Next Stop Almeria. We couldn't have been more pleased. Maria, Esther and Nicoletta at Mundi Abogados are excellent, do not need chasing and deal with everything in an ethical, efficient and friendly way in English. Maria is not from the area so doesn't have those old relationships which caused such concern years ago. The "thank you" cards in their office window at the Las Buganvillas roundabout between Garrucha and Vera tell their own story.
We were taken to the notary in Vera by the lawyers. Very efficient and it all worked far better than we were led to believe might be the case.
For financial transactions we use Currencies Direct which, I suspect, give a very similar service to GCEN. As Bob has said, don't use your UK bank for transfers as that will cost you a huge amount more than necessary.
Do come back with any further questions.
Rob
Los Gallardos
For transfer I use transferwise. Fit the past few months I have monitor the transfer fee against currency direct and is always at lease 2 cents higher event for larger amounts.
We have bought couple of properties and we use juana María ramos Aliaga (gestora). She is not a lawyer but is a technical architect and knows exactly what to do, and in the fee she would even transfer utilities and every single detail. We did not need to worry about anything.
Message me for deatails.
All the best
Diego