PROPERTY owners who bought apartments off-plan in Mojacar are angry and out of pocket at having to pay off a promoter’s debts on their homes for infrastructure to connect to basic utilities.
Some purchasers in the La Parata and Al-Boroke complexes in the tourist resort have had to live without mains water and electricity for years as outstanding monies owed by Medvillas to sub-contractors and utility companies remained unpaid.

They aired their grievances at a recent meeting held by political party Cuidanos Europeas, where Mojacar councillor and vice-mayor, Angel Medina responded to questions.
One of the affected, Pam Salmon owns an apartment in Al-Boroke and laid out her complaints to Sr Medina, endorsed by others in the same predicament.
She claimed they had been let down by everyone including notaries, lawyers, the estate agent involved and the Spanish legal system. “There were huge debts, none of them ours and many longstanding, on the construction and yet a representative of Medvillas signed a document in the presence of the notary stating that no debts were associated with the buildings. We have since discovered this is blatantly not true,” she said.

In a further twist, Medvillas was headed by Luis Gonzalez, the same man who owned estate agency Realtor’s on the beach front which sold the properties. He no longer lives in Mojacar.
Mrs Salmon added: “We were given a first habitation licence by Mojacar council, legally only permitted when water and electricity infrastructure is already in place.

“Surely they too have some liability to the residents that their basic need for water and electricity will be supplied, and I would not have expected them to sign a certificate without having the infrastructure for the provision of water and electricity in place first.”
In response, councillor Medina said he would check the original town hall paper work to see if any responsibility rested with the council, but said it had been known for some companies to remove structures they had fitted, if they had not been paid for.

He also pledged to assist in any negotiations with the utility companies and with the lawyers acting for the residents.
Construction began on the two complexes in 2000 and the properties sold off-plan with majority of the work was completed in 2005.
President of the community of the 40-apartment Al-Boroke complex, Lesley Baker, speaking exclusively to the Costa Almeria News said that owners obtained mains electricity just a few weeks ago, but the community were cornered into paying off tens of thousands of Medvilla’s debts to accomplish this.
They have yet to resolve the problem of the water supply.

Even worse off are the 30 owners in the hilltop La Parata, where properties are described as “uninhabitable”, according to one owner as there is no electricity and only builder’s water. The lady, who wished to remain anonymous, said they had just locked up the house and left it.

She said: “We have now formed a local action group to look for solutions to this dire situation and employed a lawyer to push the case forward.”

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