Publications
Obligations of service companies: Should they offer a human contact number?
In an increasingly digitalised environment, many companies are opting to automate their customer service channels. However, in essential service sectors, the law requires that consumers must be able to access personalised customer service, not just an email or an automated system (bot).
New regulations for tourist flats
As of 3 April 2025, a reform of the Horizontal Property Law (LPH) will come into force that gives Spanish homeowners' associations a more active role in the regulation of tourist accommodation within their buildings. This amendment establishes that any owner who wishes to use his or her property for tourist rental must first obtain the express approval of the residents' association. This requires the favourable vote of three-fifths of the total number of owners, also representing three-fifths of the participation quotas. This measure seeks to balance the interests of the owners with the coexistence and well-being of the community.
Rapid Trials against Squatters: Legal Reform and How to Act
Squatting has become one of the main concerns of landlords in Spain. In response to this situation, the legal system has recently evolved, reinforcing the civil and criminal tools to speed up the eviction of the so-called ‘squatters’.
Can a residents' association prohibit tourist flats?
Since April 2025, homeowners' associations in a large part of Spain can now prohibit or limit tourist flats in their buildings. This measure comes with the reform of the Horizontal Property Law, promoted by the central government, and aims to curb the saturation of the rental market and improve neighbourhood coexistence.
Telephone harassment by debt collection agencies in Spain: What to do if they call you non-stop?
Every day, more and more people in Spain report a practice that can become a real torment: constant calls from collection agencies, often without identifying the caller or leaving them on hold after picking up the phone. These practices, although disguised as legal, can violate fundamental rights if they are not carried out in accordance with the law.
Misleading Advertising: How is the Consumer Protected?
Advertising plays a key role in the modern economy: it informs, persuades and positions products or services in the consumer's mind. However, when this tool is used for misleading purposes, trust between businesses and citizens is broken. Misleading advertising not only distorts competition, it also violates fundamental consumer rights. In the face of these practices, there are legal and administrative mechanisms that allow consumers to defend themselves and make effective complaints.
This is what the socio-occupational roots will be like according to the new Foreign Nationals Regulation
From the entry into force of the new Foreigners' Regulation on 20 May 2025, the modifications to the social roots will come into force, including the socio-occupational roots (article 127B9 which would be the old social root with contract and with which now (from its entry into force) it will only be sufficient to prove two years of stay in the country, instead of three years, as until now) and one or more contracts with a working day of 20 hours, instead of the 30 or 40 hours required at present, can be provided. The salary must be the minimum interprofessional wage or according to the corresponding agreement and, very importantly, it will not be necessary to present the Integration Report, as was compulsory until now.
Stay in Spain for students according to the new foreigners' regulations
When the new Foreigners' Regulations come into force on 20 May 2025, students will be able to obtain a long-term residence permit for these studies:
Current situation of the Golden Visa in Spain
Last January 3, Organic Law 1/2025, of January 2, on Measures for the efficiency of the Public Justice Service was published, which, in its 21st Final Provision, introduces the amendment of Law 14/2013, of September 27, on support for entrepreneurs and their internationalization, by which investor visas (known as Golden Visa) are eliminated. This measure will come into force after 3 months, that is to say, next April 3, 2025, and on that date, all investor visas will be eliminated.
