The College of Property Administrators of Alicante (COAFA) is a public law organization whose remit includes the real estate sector.Be it rural or urban real estate, rental, horizontal ownership and any task related to real estate management in general. It is a sector closely linked to a society whose development over the last fifty years has been outstanding. As a professional association, it is committed to protecting citizens’ constitutional right to housing in conditions of safety and habitability. It is a complex and multidisciplinary field of study that carries out an activity of high socioeconomic value that directly affects the lives of citizens, deals with housing, one of the most valuable assets, and requires constant informing and training of its members.
At COAFA we promote the training of property managers so that they can carry out their duties in accordance with the law, mediation and deontology. Technological and sociological changes are also axes that require constant adaptation to new times.
The College of Property Managers is also the result of an evolution. Already in the 19th century there are predecessors of the property manager, and thus his figure was born in 1936, and in 1968 the Spanish National Association of Property Managers was founded as a professional company, until the regional property colleges were established in 1981. The property administration forms the General Council of Associations, whose purpose is to represent the interests of all professional associations before the state.
Throughout all these years, many efforts and goals have been achieved for the development of the real estate sector and therefore the society. And most notably, in 1999 regional colleges, along with the General Council of Property Managers, spurred a popular legislative initiative by collecting 830,000 signatures to change existing law and end high late payments. communities. . For the first time, citizens’ wishes were presented to the parliament and became law 8/1999 of 6 April, which reformed law 40/1960 on horizontal property.
However, a new era began for the owner communities, with innovations such as the monitoring process, immediate execution or preventive embargo, disenfranchisement of defaulters, debt certification, late payment call, and was called the Coexistence Law. others, others, and this has helped curb the scale of late payments that are rampant in communities.
As the 25th anniversary of this legislation approaches, it is only fair to thank regional colleges and the General Council of Property Managers for this regulatory achievement that has provided communities with the legal tools to stop late payment and without which survival today would be unthinkable. And at the same time, we should also value the work of registered civil administrators, past, present and new generations who are united under the roof of the association and devoted to the profession and society.