Sell a furnished apartment in Punta Canoa Here is what changes in this sector and what to have ready before going to market.
Selling furnished changes what is actually being traded, and the key is to separate the real property cleanly from the movable goods. Start by building a detailed inventory, with photographs, the honest condition of each piece and appliances identified, distinguishing what is included, what is excluded and what remains open to negotiation. Decide early whether the furnishings are offered within the figure or priced apart, because that affects how the transaction is documented and must appear in the purchase promise. Check whether any goods carry a live warranty, whether television or internet contracts are attached, and whether pieces damaged by humidity or salt air should be replaced before showing. If the apartment is used for short term rental, future bookings need sorting and a rule for how they pass on at handover. The most frequent dispute appears at delivery: pieces missing, wear that was never recorded, or a buyer expecting what the photographs showed. A signed inventory verified on handover day prevents that. Nisimblat Law reviews the contractual side.
What Punta Canoa is, and what changes there
What is sold in Punta Canoa is often not a lot but a share in a tract still held en común y proindiviso, in undivided co-ownership, and buying a share gives no right to a specific piece of ground, only an abstract fraction of the whole: the buyer ends up co-owning with strangers and needs a partición, a partition, or a physical division before being able to say which part is his. That is the process that sets this sector apart: identifying every co-owner, finding out whether anyone has already petitioned for division, and seeing how the predial, the property tax, has been paid on an asset nobody uses exclusively. The counterparty differs from the village too: sometimes it is a land-holding company based elsewhere, in which case you request its certificado de existencia y representación, the corporate good-standing and signing-authority certificate, along with the resolution authorizing the sale. Who decides differs as well: lying outside consolidated urban land, permitting runs through the rural regime and the environmental opinions of Cardique rather than a neighborhood licensing office, with DIMAR, the maritime authority, involved at the beach edge. Nor is infrastructure networked: each parcel arranges its own water, power and wastewater.
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Spanish buyer
Funds leave in euros and arrive converted, so the figure on the escritura and the figure that left your account do not match. You need to be able to explain that gap, which is why the declaración de cambio and the registration of foreign investment with the Banco de la República are prepared before the transfer and not after it. Sharing the language helps and also misleads: Spanish and Colombian notarial vocabulary do not mean the same thing, and it is worth having someone explain what the certificado de tradición y libertad, the title and encumbrance certificate, actually is here, and what falsa tradición, a defective chain of title, means, because neither has an equivalent at home. The poder for signing from abroad is granted before a Colombian consul in your city or before a notary and apostilled, and the CancillerÃa confirms which form the Cartagena notarÃa accepts. Visas and the cédula de extranjerÃa are a question for Migración Colombia. The tax question, for an accountant in each country, is whether a treaty exists between Colombia and your country and what it says about rental income and about ganancia ocasional, since as a Spanish tax resident the property is reported there too.
The next step
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Want to sell in Punta Canoa?
Request a market valuation of your property and we will explain how we present it to international buyers.