sábado, 1 de junio de 2013

BUYING A HOUSE IN SPAIN II / II: home mortgage, rates taxes and title deed.



Mortgage
If you decide to use the mortgage as form of payment, must visit several banks in order that they offer him his better conditions and more profitable for you. You must analyze all the offers, and insure that all the financial clauses (the capital of the lending, amortization, number of quotas, period of lack, early amortization, possible partial return, possible early cancellation, interests, commissions, table of payments, expenses, interests of delay and early resolution) are the most suitable and better for you.


The most prominent formal requirements of the mortgage are, that there must be constituted necessarily in title deed (before Notary public), and that must register in the Land Registry Office, moment in the one that stays right constituted.

The mortgages for not residents are mortgage loan ,that are granted to foreigners who do not have the fiscal residence in Spain and want to acquire the second residence in our country.

It is not necessary to confuse them with the mortgages for foreigners who reside in Spain, which they are the same that for any person with Spanish nationality.

The financial entities granted between 50 - 60% of the appraised value, providing documents similar to the Spanish, revenue, income, real estate, or any document showing your financial situation.


Title Deed
In the supposition of purchase with mortgage, will be the bank that will take charge of the necessary red tape, and the signature with its habitual Notary.

 If it does not need mortgage loan, and you are going to pay in cash, you will be able surely, across the Real Estate Agent, a Notary public office locates. If the purchase you have realized to a private owner, it would be interesting to contract a lawyer who realizes these negotiations.
Be signed the matrix title deed or the original document, and it will stay in the Notary office, as annexed to the Protocol. Be considered public documents, in addition to the matrix, copies of the same, issued with certain formalities for stakeholders.

The copies will have to be freed for the Notary, in the as brief as possible term, for his inscription in the Record of the Property, and his presentation for the liquidation of the TAX OF PATRIMONIAL TRANSMISONES AND JURIDICAL DOCUMENTED ACTS (30 days).

The day of the signature
You will have to receive and verify:
The payment of the community quotas, and copy of the bylaws.
Real Estate Property tax (IBI) receipt.
License of First Occupation or Bond of Habitability.
Contracts of services and supplies.
Information on the force of the Decennial Insurance (Law 38/1999, of November 5, of Arrangement of the Building).
Guarantees and certificates of the devices and domestic appliances.
Keys of housing and common zones.
The Building book, which must submit to the final users of the building as the art. 7 establishes, of the Law of Arrangement of the Building (LOE).


Obligations and rights later to the signature of the purchase

What must I do after signed the title deed?
After signing the public writing it is necessary to request at once its inscription in the Land Registry. This inscription is voluntary (the Law does not impose it necessarily), but it is very advisable to obtain it to achieve the suitable degree of juridical safety and the guarantees that before we explain.
Together with our request we must present in the Land Registry authentic copy of the title deed. This presentation can be done directly in the competent Land Registry, because of the situation of the housing, or by means of telefax from the Notary public office in whose locality has granted the title deed to itself in cases of urgency, or by means of a telematic communication sent from the Notary public office in which the writing has been authorized. With it there is avoided any risk of fraud or double sale during the period of five days which the Notary possesses to send the copy of the title dead.



Taxes that burden the purchase of the housing

To obtain the inscription, besides spending the favorable qualification of the Land Recorder in his prosecution of legality of the document, you must be realized the payment of the Tax of Patrimonial Transmissions that burdens the dealing. To determine the amount of this tax it is necessary to distinguish between purchase property developer (new housing) and buys individual (the second hand).

a)In case of purchase of new house, the transmission, The Value-added tax (IVA), the buyer pays it exclusively, that is to say, in the first delivery of the housing realized by the property developer / builder to the buyer. The general type is 4 % (It is necessary to remember that the IVA to 4 % is a temporary measure, which validity expires at the end of 2012, It is to say, in 2013 the IVA will spend from 4% to 10 %, as has confirmed the Secretary of the Treasury, Cristóbal Montoro).  In Canaries this tax is replaced with the IGIC (General Indirect Canary Tax) and has a type of 4,5 %.
If you buy a parking lot together with the house, also you will pay the IVA to the same type. If you buy a parking separately, you will pay the general type of IVA to 18 %.
In addition you will have to pay the Tax of Juridical Documented Acts (IAJD), which burdens the formalization of public documents (notarial, mercantile and administrative) in transmissions of real estate you do not exempt of IVA. The buyer of the building must pay it and the tax rate ranges between 0, 75 % and 2 %, depending on the autonomous community. His base of calculation in the mortgages, is the mortgage responsibility and, in the first transmission of purchase of a housing, the price that appears in the title deed. The liquidation of this tax the own interested party can do, or across the Notary or a collegiate manager.

b) In case of he buys an individual, that is to say, when it is a question of secondhand housings or of the second hand, you will have pay the Tax of Patrimonial. The buyer of the housing must pay it and has a tax rate that ranges between 6 % and 8 %, depending on the autonomous community. The tax must subscribe before the Delegation of Estate of the autonomous corresponding community, being the base of calculation the purchase price that appears in the title deed.


Other taxes in new housing and of the second hand

1)Patrimonial Onerous transmissions: it has a tax rate of 1 % and is paid when a mortgage lending is requested to finance the acquisition of a new, or secondhand housing.

2) Tax on the Increase of Value of the Areas of Urban Nature (appreciation): it is a municipal tax that burdens the increase of the value experienced on the areas of urban nature from his purchase and up to the moment of the sale. The appreciation goes at the expense of the seller in case of dealings (a recent judgment of the Supreme Court has confirmed that the property developer of new housings cannot load the appreciation on the buyer). In case of transmission of housing for inheritance or donation, the passive subject is the one who acquires the housing.
The tax base proves to multiply the property value of the area in the moment of the transmission for the years that the seller has been an owner of the same one (with a maximum of 20 years) and for a percentage that must determine every town hall, without it could exceed the following limits: of 3,7 % for a period from 1 to 5 years; of 3,5 % of up to 10 years; of 3,2 % for a period of up to 15 years and of 3 % for a period of up to 20 years.
To the result there will be applied to it a tax rate that the town halls apply without it could exceed 30 %. Appreciation is not generated when the period of property has been lower than one year. Equally, when the period of property is top at the age of 20, 3 % will be applied.
It is necessary to pay in a period of 30 working days from the date of transmission of the property, except in case of inheritances, that the term is six months from the date of death (extendable to one year if this way it is requested in writing in the first six months).

3) Property Tax (IBI): is a municipal tax levied on the value of property in rural and urban nature, located in the respective municipalities, and chelates law provides for payment to the property owner. The IBI is payable each year, and its tax rate ranges from 0.4% to 1.10% depending on the municipality, although most municipalities apply the maximum.


Laws of the foreigners in the purchase

The acquisition of housing in Spain does not guarantee the obtaining of an authorization of residence.
To proceed with the purchase of the housing, the foreigner will have to obtain with previous character a Number of Foreigner's Identification (NIE). To see isolated "Number of Foreigner's Identification ":

If the aim of the purchase of housing is to reside in Spain, once acquired the housing, see the necessary requirements in the paragraph "To reside without working ":

Addressed to whom notarizing? It is a personal decision, provided that in Spain the properties can be acquired addressed to natural persons or Juridical, resident or not in our territory, and the expenses of title dead do not change.
The natural persons acquire the properties according to the conjugal regime of his native land and, though the marriage will be able to buy without the appearance of the two, it will be able neither to mortgage nor to sell, unless he arranges of a power.

A title deed will be able to realize addressed to several persons and in the percentages that they decide.