Imagine a real estate agent/ company operating in Spain convinces a national or a foreign consumer to buy an apartment. After making the payment, the consumer finds out that something is terribly wrong with his home purchase. Is the real estate agent/ company liable?

The real estate agent operating in Spain must, amongst others, provide the buyer with all the legal and factual information on the real estate which are of importance for the home purchasing decision. He cannot simply hand over the information of the seller to the consumer; the real estate agent must check by himself the truthfulness of all the important information he gives and complete all the decisive data. The concrete obligations of the real estate agents/ companies differ regionally.

In the following, I write a short TO-DO LIST of the real estate agent operating in Spain.