This document is mandatory in Spain to be able to rent or sell a property, or when it comes to getting subsidies due to improvements of a house energy performance. It reports on the energy consumption and CO2 emissions of the property, and it contains the energy label (color scale from A to G) as a summary of the overall performance.

The owner is responsible of providing the certificate, which must be previously registered in the official region’s database. Sanctions can be applied if the registration is missing or the report is faked.

It involves the analysis of the energy performance of an existing building or retail space, in order to improve its systems: thermal envelope, lightning, heating, ventilation or air conditioning.

GML is the kind of file used to exchange cartography information, comparing the real surface with the ones officially registered (Land Registration Office and Real Estate Public Registry). It contains information about the geo referencing or coordinates of a certain plot or building.

The surface check certifies the precise real area: useful area, constructed area and common elements area.

Both are official technical reports, so the must be signed by qualified professionals (architects or technical engineers).

The Land Registration Office usually records the constructed area of a certain property plus the corresponding area of common elements in the building. That information can eventually contain mistakes, and that may lead to improper tax collection or neighborhood disputes. To solve that kind of situations, a surface check can be provided, to prove that the official information registered is not correct.

This document is a property valuation, prepared by an authorized company, whose goal is to find out the value of that property for the mortgage guarantee. This document is compulsory when the loan is requested to a financial institution.

As a general rule, the amount granted by the financial entity is not higher than 80% of the resulting value stated in the mortgage appraisal. The sale value of that same property does not have to coincide with the resulting value of the appraisal.

As TINSA qualified experts, we can help you order an official mortgage appraisal (VARI type appraisal, as it is called). TINSA will assign an expert and issue a document valid for 6 months, which can be used to request a mortgage at any financial institution.

It is a calculation of the approximate value that a certain property can achieve on the market, useful for a sale or to distribute assets in an inheritance process or segregation.

In this case, the technical report is used to ask the Administration to adjust the value assigned to a certain property, since that value is used as a basis for the settlement of taxes after a sale or inheritance.

It is a document that describes the renovations or actions to be carried out in a specific building, the goal of those actions and additional information related with them. It is not regulated by any law, however it is widely used among experts in the construction sector.

Its most frequent goals are to calculate the cost of a planned renovation, or to define a budget needed to request a license. In fact, most town councils or communities ask for an assessed report as a previous requirement for a renovation or a subsidy.

The activity or opening license is essential to open a business in a certain retail, office or industrial space. It’s also a compulsory document when the business ownership is transferred or when renovations of the establishment are carried out.

The activity license is therefore a document that certifies the suitability of an establishment for the performance of a certain activity.

Of course, if the same space is used for a new activity (even without renovations), it is mandatory to request a new opening license.

You would like to do a minor work in your home, you have requested several price estimates but you get a little lost when comparing the offers with each other. You may not know if they really include everything you will need for the renovation to be completed, or if the final amount is within the average price range.

Don’t worry, it is common to feel that way. Offers sometimes contain technical terminology and we may not know what we are really hiring for. Being advised by a professional team will allow you to decide wisely, and it will also work to check the performance of the chosen construction company.

It is a private document between the contractor and the promoter in which the working conditions of the contractor are agreed. In a sector in which customs and practices are the most widespread norm, it is advisable be aware of these common ways of doing things and record them in a written form, to avoid conflicts during the process and afterwards.

It is a service to receive professional advice regarding the management of properties or land. For instance, choosing a plot, renovating an existing building o directly building a customized house for your family.

A construction work carried out without a license may need certain authorizations to be able to allocate a certain use, register the property and give legally required public notice.

Not all construction works can be legalized, therefore we will have to make a prior evaluation to find out if it is convening to develop a legalization project or not.

This procedure involves the payment of the corresponding fees and taxes to the local authorities, plus the adaptation of the works done to the current regulations.

In certain cases, the legalization process can be simplified through a certificate of age of the property. It would allow the inclusion in the deed of all improvements made. It can also lead to a higher appraisal value and/or avoid possible demolitions or urban planning sanctions.

These types of reports are necessary when we want to change a single registered property into two or more independent registrations.

Segregations take place, for instance, when dividing large industrial warehouses, which may then have their own access to the street, not sharing common elements anymore.

The process of horizontal splitting consists of dividing a property into several independently registered properties, when they initially share a coefficient of co-ownership or participation in the total property.

Any segregation and/or assemblage requires administrative authorization, as a previous step to the registration of the resulting properties in the Real Estate Public Registry.

It is a document that includes all the technical characteristics of an already constructed building, indicating its operating regime and also instructions for its maintenance.

According to the current regulation, the developer is the one who must handle it to the first owners, who have to preserve it and transfer it to future buyers.

At the office, we have the necessary tools to collect precise topographic data, that allow us to make accurate and rigorous proposals in a specific site.

Precise information regarding the unevenness of the street or the terrain in its natural state is usually a limitation in terms of compliance with local regulations. In some cases, it can even determine whether it is allowed to build an additional floor or not.

Sometimes it is necessary to determine the boundaries of a piece of land, or to clarify them.

In those cases, the intervention of an expert technician is required to carry out precise measurements. This process involves the participation of neighbors, either in a friendly way or by judicial means.

As a starting point of the construction process, the information contained in a plan is transferred to the physical reality (to a piece of land or to a construction element), in order to materialize the planned elements in a correct and precise way.