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A British man who lost more than £40,000 on a doomed holiday home investment at the height of Spain's financial crisis has successfully won back his money more than a decade later. Adam Yates paid a €77,400 deposit in 2007 (then equivalent to around £40,000) for a two-bedroom property on a golf complex in Duquesa, Estepona, before the builder went into liquidation.

A British wannabe-expat has spoken out after successfully winning back thousands of pounds he lost on his dream Spanish holiday home during the 2008 financial crash. Now Adam Yates, 52, from Wakefield, has won back the £68,000 he spent on what was to be his dream holiday home on a Costa Del Sol golf course.

As Featured on BBC News. Luis Cuervo, CEO of Spanish Legal Reclaims, a legal advisory firm specialising in recovering money for clients in Spain, interviewed on BBC News.

When you pursue a financial claim in a Spanish court, there is always the risk that you will lose and have to pay the court costs, if not legal fees. But with Spanish Legal Reclaims, you also have the option of a zero risk claim, meaning you really have nothing to lose.

If you lost money to a bankrupt developer in the last boom and want to get your money bank you’ll need to know the name of the developer’s bank. Legal advisors Spanish Legal Reclaims (SLR) may be able to help you even if you can’t remember the bank’s name.

Luis Cuervo is the CEO of Spanish Legal Reclaims, a legal advisory firm specialising in recovering money for clients in Spain, in particular from banks of developers who went bust with client money before delivering a finished home. In this Q&A he answers common questions about off-plan payments lost to bankrupt Spanish developers, and how to get your money back from the developer’s bank.

Brexit is not putting off those who want a dream home in countries like France, Spain and Italy which have always been popular with British buyers, according to a survey from legal firm Spanish Legal Reclaims.

After years of legal wrangling and setbacks, British homebuyers who were caught cold by the Spanish property market crash are finally beginning to recoup the millions they paid for holiday homes that were never built.

During the property boom period which started in the 1990s, around 800,000 holiday homes were built in Spain each year. Buyers, a large proportion of them British, ploughed cash into Spanish real estate, many of them parting with significant deposits and stage payments for off-plan investments.

Luis Cuervo, CEO at Spanish Legal Reclaims, interviewed on La Sexta Spanish TV.

Hope for Brits left high and dry by Spanish developers - The financial crash left us all worse off, but for 130,000 Brits, it destroyed their dreams of owning a home in Spain too. They had been persuaded to put down a hefty deposit in order to buy Spanish properties. When the world economy went south, so did the developers - taking all their money with them. 56-year-old Malcolm Young from Northumbria was one of them - losing €130,000. His story, however, could give hope to thousands of others.

Malcolm Young is jubilant – he has just got back the cash he thought he had lost forever as a victim of the 2008 Spanish property crash. His victory, a result of a landmark change in Spanish law, spells hope for thousands more casualties of the market’s collapse.

Spain opens the door for UK holiday home buyers to reclaim lost money Many were left high and dry by the 2008 financial crash, but a legal judgment means banks could be liable.

BBC Radio 4 – Your & Yours (Consumer Affairs Programme) Interview with one of our clients, Mrs. Stephanie Davis.

Malcolm Young, 56, has lost all hope of getting back £110,000 deposit he paid for a property in Spain thirteen years ago. His victory is a result of a landmark court case in Spain in December 2015, which ruled that the banks are jointly responsible, along with developers, for deposits made by buyers’ lost cash.

New hope for Spanish property investors: 'I lost an £89,000 deposit' Thousands of Britons who lost large deposits on Spanish properties which were never built have been offered the prospect of reclaiming their cash.

The £4bn battle on Costa del Claims: New hope for thousands of British buyers who lost fortunes in Spanish property crash.

Tens of thousands of British investors who lost money when the Spanish property market collapsed could be in line for a major payout.

UK property investors set for a refund from Spanish banks.

Britons who ploughed money into properties in Spain that were never built have been told they could get their money back. The Spanish Costas are littered with unfinished homes after the financial meltdown in 2008.

Spanish holiday home tax fiasco: Britons win £2.6m payouts.

Up to 30,000 Britons can claim compensation after Spanish government forced to change 'unfair' inheritance tax laws on holiday homes.

The Spanish government is refunding thousands of Britons after it charged "discriminatory" rates of inheritance tax.

The European Court of Justice has ruled that the Spanish authorities cannot charge different rates of inheritance tax for residents and non-residents. Non-residents who have been discriminated against by paying more tax than Spaniards for inheritances or gifts of property are likely to be due a refund of the difference.

The European Court of Justice ruled against Spain on Wednesday in a case that could reduce the amount of inheritance tax the country can charge foreigners living in Spain, currently higher than that charged Spaniards. More than 12 percent of Spain’s total population were born elsewhere, one of the highest percentage of foreign residents in European Union countries, with most from Romania, Morocco and Britain.

For any UK families who are gifted with inheriting a property in Spain this can mean the opportunity to spend summer months basking in glorious sunshine and escaping the grey English weather. However, it has now been revealed that the 40,000* UK families who have been lucky enough to be gifted with an inherited property have fallen foul of a Spanish tax loop that has seen them overcharged Spanish IHT (inheritance tax) to the tune of £400 million, whilst Spanish residents paid close to 0% IHT.

It is estimated that around 60,000 British families have been hit with Inheritance tax (IHT) bills for properties or assets they inherited in Spain. Charges are believed to be in the region of £400 million (€490 million). The Spanish government levied IHT of up to 35 per cent on non-residents, while Spanish residents paid close to zero per cent IHT.

MORE than 40,000 UK families are owed thousands of pounds after being overcharged inheritance tax by the Spanish. A hefty £400million, an average £10,000 each, has been paid by families who inherited property and have fallen foul of a Spanish tax loop hole. They were charged 9 per cent IHT, while Spanish residents paid virtually nothing. The European Commission have taken Spain before the European Court of Justice as they believe the Spanish inheritance system infringes EU treaty freedoms for non-residents in Spain.

Expert Nigel Lewis, of FindaProperty.com. answers readers questions. Q: Is it true that Spanish property owners could be in line for a tax windfall? A: Yes, it's true. A ruling by the European Court of Justice found the Spanish Government guilty of unfairly taxing non-Spaniards who sell a property in Spain. During a nine-year window, overseas vendors, including thousands of Brits, were charged a higher capital gains tax than their Spanish counterparts and this was deemed to be unfair.

Between 1997 and 2006, the Spanish government illegally charged British people over twice the amount of capital gains tax (CGT) that was paid by Spanish residents on the sale of a property. While Spanish nationals paid just 15 per cent of any capital gains, British people, who were liable for the "non-resident's income tax", paid 35 per cent.

Up to 90,000 Britons who have sold a holiday home in Spain in the past 12 years could be owed thousands of pounds by the Spanish tax authority. During that time, the price of holiday homes in Spain enjoyed a huge boom, with prices peaking in 2007. But while the locals paid just 15 per cent in capital gains tax (CGT) on their profits when they sold, Britons and other non-residents were charged a hefty 35 per cent. Experts estimate the homeowners who sold since 1997 could be due an average £13,500 tax refund

A court decision in Spain has opened the way for thousands of UK citizens to reclaim some of the tax they paid when they sold their homes there. The High Court in the region of Valencia has ruled in favour of a British couple, Mr and Mrs Roy.

Thousands of Britons who made capital gains by selling Spanish properties could be due tax rebates to the tune of a collective 50 million pounds, a legal firm says. They could be in line for a 20 percent tax rebate because foreign non-residents were charged a higher rate than Spanish nationals -- and that contravenes the European Community Treaty, according to Spanish lawyer Costa, Alvarez, Manglano & Associates.