”It is a dangerous and novel method of squatting”, said Rebeca, the administrator of the urbanization La Duquesa, in Playa Fañabéin the municipality of Adeje, on the situation of eight of the 49 terraced houses that make up a community of high heritage value.
Rebeca refers to the alleged irregular sales that are taking place with homes owned by Russian citizens who now cannot leave their country, due to the war in Ukraine. According to her, as pointed out by Joe Schacher, president of the community of owners, “a real estate agency has been able to buy in Russia and has deeded in its name, with powers of attorney whose legitimacy is unknown, some eight homes, but their owners, with whom We are in contact, they have confirmed that they have not sold anything.”
Everything was uncovered on Monday when the theoretical new owner approached the urbanization with an alarm company to change the locks and gain access to four of the eight homes that he would have supposedly acquired for 460,000 euros each, when the market value of those townhouses exceeds 720,000 euros.
As Rebeca acknowledges, “seeing the papers they present with the notary’s signature, the sale seems legal, but we have denounced it, because the Russian owners insist that they have not sold anything and do not intend to do so,” as Kyril, an advisor, also acknowledged. property of one of those affected, who “right now is trying to be able to come to Tenerife in some way”.
Both the residential administrator and those affected, through lawyers, began yesterday to investigate how these sales could be forged before a notary, Rebeca explaining that “we have spoken with the notary and he tells us that they come with powers of attorney from Russia and with apostille, and that he has no way of knowing that they are false; therefore, at first sight the sale seems legal”. Thus, she indicated that the operation originated first in Russia and then in Tenerife. Yesterday this newspaper could not locate any spokesperson for the Tenerife company on the telephone number that appears on the corresponding website.
The new owner company began, apparently, on Monday to occupy the first four properties that it would have acquired, “placing new alarms,” Joe and Rebeca point out, and before the National Police they showed the papers that accredit them as new owners, something that ” It remains to be seen”, they insisted yesterday, after filing the corresponding complaint with the Police, for what they describe as a “sophisticated squatting”.
“This is a new method of squatting, because no one has sold and we are all very nervous, with strange people that we have never seen around here walking the streets at night,” they commented.
For now, the National Police, according to Rebeca, has transferred the demand of the community of owners of La Duquesa to the notaries and has opened an investigation to find out the origin of those powers of sale that the Russian owners assure that they have not granted. And not only in La Duquesa, but it could also occur in other urbanizations, as they point out, with Russian owners in the area, who are usually the ones who acquire homes with a value close to a million euros and who in almost no case put in regime for rent or put up for sale, and less than half its price.
Rebeca plans today to request a simple note in the property registry to find out about the aforementioned four houses and the other four, curiously also from Russian owners, in whose name they are, if the real estate group has already resold them to individuals, something that until yesterday was unknown to the administrator of La Duquesa and its own residents, nervous and uneasy about what is happening.
They place brochures to confirm that the properties are empty
Neighbors denounce that the supposed new owners place brochures on the doors of the buildings. In case these brochures are not removed, they understand that there is no one residing there and agree to change locks.
They place brochures to confirm that the properties are empty. GIVES
The National Police has already appeared on the scene. GIVES
