Guides
Last reviewed: 10 October 2026.
Before buying, receiving keys or claiming for damage, you need to know what to check and in which order. These guides provide practical steps for homes in Spain: preparing visits, preserving evidence, reviewing documents and distinguishing technical, financial and legal decisions.
Start with your situation. Each guide provides a quick answer, checks, common mistakes and questions expanding the topic. Examples help prepare files; conclusions about a particular home require data and access, and deadlines must be reviewed against case circumstances.
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What to check before buying a resale home
Before buying a resale home, review rooms, documents and signs needing further assessment. Learn what you can observe, what stays concealed and how to prepare inspection before commitments.
What to check at a new-build key handover
Prepare handover with room lists, documents and utilities. Record issues, distinguish outstanding checks and retain snagging communications without confusing them with every legal deadline.
What to do after discovering a possible hidden defect
Protect evidence and organise first actions before repairing where feasible. Distinguish requirements, communications and routes, with attention to the six-month period and legal review.
Inspection, expert report, ITE and valuation: differences
Choose the document answering your needs before commissioning. Compare inspection, expert opinion, ITE, IEE, energy certificate and valuation by purpose, scope and professional requirements.
Documents for a faulty renovation claim
Gather contract, quotations, payments, messages and photographs to compare agreed and completed renovation. Organise changes and history without written quotations or after subsequent alterations.
Home inspection cost: what to compare
Understand quotation factors and comparable scope. Separate inspection, additional tests and expert reports and prepare an enquiry without invented tariffs.
Damp and leaks at home: causes and action
Rising damp, condensation, rain and leaks need different checks despite similar stains. Record patterns, distinguish hypotheses, prepare solutions and separate maintenance, liability and cover.
Cracks before buying: assessing signs
An isolated width does not determine severity. Learn observations, recording and monitoring and which information is missing before committing to purchase.
Expert reports for new-build defect claims
Prepare claims with chronology, numbered issues and technical documents. Distinguish liability periods, limitation, participants and report scope and retain each repair’s result.
Low insurance settlement: how to challenge it
Request the insurer’s breakdown and distinguish amount, cover and deductions. Understand independent valuation, article 38 assessment and complaint channels with requirements and limitations.
Market value and mortgage valuation: choosing a report
Market value, mortgage valuation and cadastral data serve different purposes. Define date and valued right for inheritance, divorce, division or financing and understand required justification.
Calculating faulty renovation repair costs
Measure usable, outstanding and faulty work before valuing correction. Understand solutions, comparable prices and payment reconciliation to avoid duplicate costs or confusing technical balances with legal claims.
Documents to continue preparing your case
For the legislative framework, use the Spanish housing law department. The glossary explains technical and legal terms in guides. Frequently asked questions supplement scope and commissioning matters. Keep original photographs, documents and communications chronologically: an organised file identifies known facts, outstanding questions and next steps.
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