Mortgage cancellation due to expiration: when the term is for extinction and when only for coverage
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Who is affected:
Owners with old mortgages, property registrars and creditor banking entities
Summary
The DGSJFP resolves whether a term agreed in a mortgage implies its automatic extinction or only limits which debts remain guaranteed. The distinction determines whether it can be cancelled without the bank.
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The Dirección General de Seguridad Jurídica y Fe Pública analyzes an appeal against the refusal of the Calvià Property Registry to cancel a floating mortgage constituted in 2012 in favor of BBVA. The registrar understood that the agreed six-year term was for coverage, not conventional expiration, preventing automatic c…
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