Expat property buyers win day in court with developers

It has taken five years but a group of determined expats have finally won a courtroom showdown with the Spanish developers who left their homes surrounded by an abandoned building site rather than the promised five-star facilties.

The nine Britons who put down off-plan deposits of up to €200,000 each on properties at the Corvera Golf and Country Club near Murcia in 2005 and 2006 were promised that their homes would be part of a complex that would include a five-star hotel and state-of-the-art leisure facilities.

The majority of the proposed facilities were never built while the developers Corvera Golf and Country Club SL allegedly ignored pleas from homeowners to explain why construction had suddenly stopped.

A preliminary hearing in Murcia has now confirmed that the developers will have to answer these allegations in a trial in July next year. 

Source: Telegraph.co.uk