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The sun shines on RTN´s Golf Club day
Conditions were perfect on Tuesday for RTN Golf Club Members Competition at El Plantio Golf Course in Alicante. PAGE 13
iSSUE 656
11 -17 may 2012
The countdown is on!
The Homes, Gardens and Outdoor Living Show (on Tuesday 22nd and Wednesday 23rd May) is an event not to be missed. PAGE 29
Life showbiz goss The truth behind Cameron and Bob. PAGE 42
Couple fight eviction from their home by louise clarke
Jennifer Cunningham, ASSSA´s Alfonso Castro and Debbie Lewis
New coastal office for Jennifer Cunningham
THE BUBBLY was flowing at Playa Flamenca Commercial Centre yesterday (Thursday) as Jennifer Cunningham opened her sixth office. Adding to the already well established branches in Javea, Benijofar, La Marina, Los Alcazares and Lanzarote/Fuerteventura, the Playa Flamenca office will bring a wide array of insurance, financial and expat services to Orihuela Costa. Read more on page 11.
A COUPLE from El Galan is having to take turns in going out after solicitors told them that bailiffs could come any day to evict them. Stewart and Lynda Forrester bought a Tecnologia Urbanistica house through Atlas International in 2003. In 2004 the house, which was part of a row of six, suffered severe damage due to the subsidence of an end terrace that had not been underpinned properly. Structural engineers advised the couple to leave the house immediately after six inch cracks started to appear throughout the house. In the meantime, Tecnologia’s owner, Emilio Martin de las Mulas Naranjo, offered Stewart and Lynda another house down the road in Bosque del Lomas 16, where they are still living for most of the year. The couple paid in full - more than 149,000€ - for the property to Atlas International. FIGHTING The couple never received any confirmation that the money had been paid to the builder and like with so many other cases that RTN has heard about, the owner
of Tecnologia then took a mortgage out on the property. The couple has been fighting for their deeds since 2005 and have been constantly pushed from pillar to post. Their solicitors at the time, Aroca Seiquer, even phoned them at their home in South Wales to say that the deeds were in the office and then when the couple flew over to retrieve them, the solicitors said that the deeds weren’t there after all! The couple has known for some time that there was a debt on their property and even got a court judgement which states that all debts on the property must be cleared. NO LIFE Unbeknown to the couple, the bank has since repossessed the property and the auction took place six months ago. This was only discovered after the pair swapped solicitors to the same company that is helping other Tecnologia homeowners. As a result, the bailiffs could come any day and change the locks and the couple will be evicted from their home. Continued on page 3