Notary services

Buying property in Spain is exciting, but it comes with its own legal procedures and potential pitfalls.

idealista and the General Council of Notaries have signed a collaboration agreement via the Notary Technology Centre – allowing anonymised data from notarised home sales to be integrated into idealista’s analysis tools. Real estate professionals will gain access to independent valuations, including closing price, date, surface area and price per square metre – with advanced filters to refine market insights based on actual transaction data.

Buying a house in Spain as a foreigner in 2026 is perfectly possible, but it comes with its own admin trail: legal checks, a NIE number, a Spanish bank account and a notary appointment, usually in that order.

Article written by Eduardo Amat Alcaraz, notary public of Puerto Lumbreras (Murcia) An outright payment is when the buyer pays the full amount for a good or service at the time of purchase.

This article is our follow-up to our recent article, Possession: why you should never hand over your house keys before completion – 12th March 2020. Congratulations, you finally bought a house in Spain and you are all giddy at the thought! It is an exciting moment for a buyer.

This is the first of a two-part series dealing on possession. Congratulations, you have found a buyer for your Spanish property!

Due to the importance of the changes enacted last June on taking out a mortgage in Spain, we will briefly collate in bullet points all that’s new. The majority of these changes are pro-consumer, greatly benefitting borrowers in Spain. All changes effective as of Monday 17th June 2019. 1.

A question we frequently get asked is if you can buy and sell property in Spain in a currency other than euros. The short answer is yes, and in fact it is done fairly frequently.