(Photo: M. Lorenzo)

A Court in Madrid has awarded 6 off-plan property buyers a grand total of circa four hundred thousand Euros, inclusive of interest, as a result of a bank guarantee claim filed against BBVA bank, the second largest in Spain.

The Court found against the bank as a result of the existence of a collective bank guarantee issued by the bank, despite no individual guarantees being available for each investor. On this occasion, it was not necessary to invoke the Supreme court case law as the merits for winning the case had been already established by previous Appeal Court rulings.