British couple’s Costa dream is demolished - Telegraph
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British couple’s Costa dream is demolished
By Fiona Govan in MadridBritish couple living in Spain have become the first expatriates to see their home demolished in a move that threatens thousands of properties built on the Costas.
Helen and Leonard Prior sold their home in Berkshire and spent £570,000 turning an area of barren scrubland into a villa with heated swimming pool and landscaped gardens. The demolished villa in Vera, AlmeriaThe £570,000 villa in Vera, Almeria, complete with heated swimming pool and landscaped gardens, is reduced to rubbleThey named it “Tranquilidad” in expectation of how they would spend their retirement. But yesterday, a demolition ball turned their home of the past four years to rubble.”We were utterly powerless to stop them,” said Mrs Prior, who is 64 today.
“We had hoped to spend the rest of our days here but within hours everything we worked for was destroyed.”Thousands more expatriates living on the Costas could see their homes demolished after it emerged the properties - bought in good faith - had been built illegally. Local corruption and the flaunting of planning laws have allowed swathes of the Spanish coastline to be developed during the last decade.
Countless Britons have been duped by unscrupulous estate agents, lawyers or property developers into purchasing homes that have been built on green belt land or without proper permission.
British couple’s Costa dream is demolished - Telegraph
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