Saw this post on another forum by Lenox who used to post on here.
Quite right about the ‘illegal properties’. Planned, built, promoted, sold, notarised and so on. Cheques cleared, moving van ordered… and only then declared illegal by far-off Seville. There are (according to the same AUAN mentioned by Domino) 300,000 ‘illegal homes’ in the whole of Andalucía that no one noticed being built. A region where they know if you ride a horse from one municipality to another, where they control your car, your paperwork, taxes and dog. Yet, no one noticed when they built these homes: more dwellings than there are in the City of Málaga!
Each ‘illegal home’ has two people with a house without electricity and water, a house that is unsalable. A story that should never have happened (really! Under the Spanish constitution, where we all have the right to a vivienda digna). So six hundred thousand people (large proportion of which are foreigners) are f***ed.
And secondly, and at the same time, the 2 million homes owned by banks are all legal. Funny that.
I think that is an excellent summing up of the situation!