Property administrators in Spain are trying to bring communities into the 21st Century with new legislation.
There could be changes to the law governing how community meetings in Spanish resorts and urbanisations are conducted, along with other important legal changes for those who own property in Spain.
Recently, it has become known that an amendment (specifically, amendment number 430) has been presented to the Royal Decree – Omnibus Law, proposing certain modifications that would affect the Horizontal Property Law (https://resortalia.com/wp-content/uploads/LPH-English.pdf) (Ley de Propiedad Horizontal in Spanish).
The Horizontal Property Law regulates relations between property owners in a community in Spain, whether it’s an apartment building, a gated resort or otherwise. The law lays out how the president is elected, how meetings of homeowners are to be convened, how complaints and quarrels between neighbours are to be dealt with, what work may or may not be carried out to properties, among many other things.
The current amendment being proposed for the Horizontal Property Law seeks to modernise how this process happens by implementing some of the of the requests that, over the last few years, have been made by the association of property administrators.
In particular, regarding digitalisation and modernisation, there are proposals to enable a form of electronic contact with the owner (article 9.1. h); attendance at meetings via videoconference or holding of joint meetings (article 15.1); and the keeping of digital minute books (article 19.2), as well as other suggestions that would bring communities of owners into the digital age
Not just that, but other changes have been suggest too. Regarding agreements and meeting, it has been proposed into to simplify the majorities in the agreements of article 17, specifically those not included in sections 1 to 6; it is ratified that the agreements are executive from their adoption (article 17.9).
It is also being proposed to give a longer period for the preparation of meeting minutes (from the current 10 calendar days to 20 working days) and the amendment also proposes to clarify the procedures for calling a general meeting by 25 % of owners (article 16).
In the last days, we’ve known that new steps are being given in our Congress, what’s very good news because It is clear that the LPH needs to be modified and adapted to the current times administrators.
Even before the legal modifications to the Horizontal Property Law have been voted and agreed, Resortalia is already ahead of the curve, having organised the AGMs and other community meeting via videoconference and using other state-of-the-are equipment to allow a greater degree of freedom and technological specification for property owners.
For more information of for help with property administrators for your Spanish community of owners, contact Resortalia today.