Eight of the 32 apartments in the Turov block that the Alcanar City Council (Montsià) must demolish to comply with the court ruling that declared the complex illegal are for sale.
These are the eight homes that belonged to the developer Turov itself and that were acquired by the current seller during the liquidation process of the company in 2018.
The council, in fact, had already compensated Turov with more than one million euros for these apartments when he was already in bankruptcy.
Some of the apartments have appeared advertised on real estate portals.
Individuals who have been interested have explained that they are offered to purchase the properties at a discounted price, assuming the risk of losing them permanently when the demolition is carried out.
"Investment opportunity. I am selling a duplex apartment with views of the Ebro delta, with parking included, in the Serramar area. Special situation to comment on." This is the text that accompanied an advertisement published until Wednesday morning on the idealist portal, where photographs from Turov's blog also appeared.
The seller was asking for 29,000 euros for the advertised duplex in question, well below the value of 139,000 euros calculated by a 2016 appraisal, a year after the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) confirmed, without the possibility of appeal, an order of demolition issued by the contentious administrative court number 2 of Tarragona.
Asked through the contact information provided, the seller has refused to make any statements. However, he detailed several people who called to inquire about the announcement that it would be a risky investment, with the possibility of winning or losing.
The new owner, in this sense, would not hide that there is a court ruling that requires the demolition, but he tries to inform the interested parties that the procedure to make it effective is taking a long time and that the City Council would not be in any hurry to execute it. to the point that you might end up not doing it.
The seller also explained to them that he has up to eight apartments acquired during the liquidation process of the Turov company and organizes visits on Saturdays and Saturdays to show them to potential buyers.
They are the same properties that the developer kept as property until its liquidation and that, like the rest of the complex, are pending demolition by the City Council.
The municipal government, which put out to tender the work at the beginning of 2017, is awaiting the arrival of the opinions of the Legal Advisory Commission of the Generalitat with the valuation of the homes of the affected individuals in order to restart the procedure.
In 2018, with Turov finding itself in bankruptcy proceedings, it agreed to compensate the company - which sold apartments when its irregular urban planning situation had already been certified - with 1.07 million euros for the same apartments that are now back on the market. sale. Now each of the eight is offered for prices between 20,000 and 29,000 euros, depending on those interested.
"It seems regrettable and even perverse to me that there is speculation with apartments that are immersed in a judicial procedure and with a final demolition sentence. so many problems for the administration and the owners is a mistake," declared the mayor of Alcanar, Joan Roig. "Surely it is legal, but it is very unethical," he added. An opinion, the latter, shared by jurists.
The mayor recalled that, in any case, the City Council must "comply with a sentence" of demolishing the apartments that can no longer be appealed in any other instance: "there is no room for opinions, perceptions or ideas."
As he has stressed, the municipal government is the "first interested party" in definitively resolving the conflict as soon as possible because, for example, it has had to enable bank guarantees for compensation that generates interest.
Of course, Roig asks the administration of justice to provide clear "indications" to carry out the execution of the sentence and the demolition correctly, with "safety" for the affected people who still reside in the complex. "We cannot get there like an elephant in a china shop, with the machines and take them all out to knock us down because we have the court ruling. We also need the justice system to get a little more involved and tell us how to do it." do," he added.
For its part, and after becoming aware of the case, the idealist platform has decided to cancel the advertisement. They have done so, according to sources from this portal, in light of the information on the judicial procedure and despite considering that the responsibility for the "lawful" content of what is published lies with the users themselves.
The Turov complex was built with one of the irregular municipal licenses granted in the area between 1997 and 2003 by a previous municipal government based on a particular interpretation of urban planning that allowed apartment blocks to be built on plots intended for "city garden" and that could only house one home. The complaint from a neighbor activated the judicial procedure with great economic repercussions for municipal finances.
The case of the 32 apartment complex in Serramar was not isolated: according to calculations made by the council following the appearance of the case, with this irregular regulation, up to 614 homes were built in various developments in Alcanar Platja when, legally, the planning only allowed 179.
