A reader has contacted La Voz to criticize that a real estate agency is advertising the sale of a commercial space as a home in Costa Teguise. Specifically, the space of only 26 square meters is sold for 115,000 euros.
The advertisement describes the infrastructure as a "commercial space intended for a studio-apartment with a double bed, bathroom, living room-kitchen and near the beach", although the reality is that in the images you can see that it is a single space with the shower just over a meter from the bed.
"It is an exorbitant price considering the small surface area and it cannot be used as a home because it does not meet the requirements and technical specifications to obtain the habitability certificate," says the reader.
However, the Official State Gazette (BOE) published in July of this year, states that the decree-law establishes measures to dedicate existing buildings to homes. Specifically, "the reclassification of premises and entire buildings changing their current use to housing."
In that decree, article 13. 'Reclassification of premises for residential use' of the BOE states that the change of use of commercial premises, offices or any analogous definition used by the planning instruments, to residential use, will be allowed when the following conditions are met: these are existing buildings of residential typology of collective housing; that the predominant use is residential; that they are located on urban land and that the common rules established in article 17 of this decree-law are met, except for the partial destination to protected housing, when the change is for a single home."
