Estepona Beach & Country Club
I invested 105,000 euros with Ocean View Properties in 2005/06 for an apartment in their Estepona Beach and Country club site. Subsequently the site has not been built and all indications would sugguest planning permission was never in the offing!! Surely this is a clear breach of contract and we get our monies back??? Now Ocean View Properties have went into administration and we're told we are not company does not regard us as creditors! Can anyone offer advice, i have exhausted all avenues of resonable contact with Ocean view properties and while they assure me my monies are safe they cannot indicate where they are!
Any help would be much appreciated
Estepona beach and country Club
Dear Lawbird Lawyer,
Thank you for the reply. At time of purchase the introducer, and OVP franchise manager for my area, assured us the monies would be in a nesco account. For some twelve months now i have been requesting my deposit returned for breach of contract, including a formal written request. Each time i have been hit with obstacles, my solicitor has no help or guidance and claims it's outside their area. OVP initially claimed the monies were held in a joint OVP/developer account, and their release could only be authorised by dual signature and the developer would not allow this. However at end of 2008 they changed this to say the developer had all the monies, developer being sun golf, this totally contradicted what we'd been told all along!!
Have you any experience on this issues with OVP or Sun golf and whats the best way forward???
p.s i have contacted the uk administrator by e-mail.
OVP Estepona Beach and Country Club
'So or you either swap over to another development which is key ready and already has the Licence of First Occupation (AKA LFO or Habitation Licence) or else you litigate in the UK'.
I would like to ask a question on this, knowing that OVP are in administration and possibly soon to be liquidated then if we were to try and transfer to an as built property by transferring our deposit then is there a chance that the property could be taken from us by the liquidators?
Jo
Estepona Beach and Country Club
I am trying to locate any client's of OVP who purchased on EBCC and used an OVP recommened solicitor other than Conveyancing Spain. Please send me a message on the eyeonspain.co.uk website. Anyone who did use Conveyancing Spain then Ignacio above would be able to help you with some advice. He is very knowledgable in the OVP/EBCC nightmare. If you did use a laywer other than Conveyanving Spain you can also contact Ignacio. I am trying to see if the work provided to me was below the standard required and if I can build a group to take legal advice/action with Ignacio's help if it was.
Marbella-Laywers - thank-you for your helpful advice. I hope my posting is okay with you.
Regards
Joey123