IT SEEMS like years since glossy brochures for foreign properties regularly landed on our desks. So it was a surprise to find a discreet but very nicely produced 56-page booklet sitting there one morning.

But this one could be very useful to the many Irish investors who are trying to figure out what to do with an investment bought in Spain that is now just a financial millstone.

The Spanish Legal Property Information pocket guide is published by Marbella-based Perez Legal Group and is aimed at people selling (or even buying) in Spain. It has all the information people should have had at their fingertips when they were busy buying a clutch of apartments off plans five to 10 years ago. You can download it free: see perezlegalgroup.com