Spanish beaurocracy you have to love it Footski. Thats why we went to our solicitor. We are having to re-register our land-not the house! Our townhall updated their computer system and lost the details- its not their problem to replace the data, we have to do it!
Of course the Spanish who don't bother with registry at all just don't bother, but us expats who will want to sell up someday have to jump through hoops to stay within the law. This re-registration has so far cost us 550€ to have an architect draw up plans of the land with the location of the house. All of this is available on the castastral but the town hall say we have to do it ourselves via the solicitors office!
If you look at the catastral for our village virtually all the registered properties with the exception of the church and bar are expats from europe. Most of the village houses just aren't there, blank spaces on a map. As I said the spanish don't bother, they just hand the property from generation to generation without paying the taxes