wrote on Jul 9^th, 2010 at 4:31pm:

JamJarChris wrote on Jul 9th, 2010 at 9:08am: Good news - I think. Some friends of ours finally received their cedula yesterday. So there is a way - it is just finding it that is the trick Merriman: Could you give more details please.  Unfortunately there's no trick.  Unless the house AND land are urbanised or it has an original building license (this is not the same as a Declaracion de Obra Nueva) cedula's are still not being issued.  In fact the town halls are still waiting for instructions from Habitatge as to how to proceed with the issue of initial certificates that are then sent to Habitatge with the cedula de habitabilidad application.  These instructions were due at the end of June following the API/Carme Trilla meeting, but it's been 'manana' ever since. Unfortunately I don't think this is what it seems, unless they have an original building license. It may be that they have the initial certificate (also called a cedula, but not a cedula de habitabilidad) from the town hall.

GREG this is very confusing,we have a vivienda uso residencial sitting on urbano land it was built in the 70s it must have had a building licence as it is legal (but we were not given it when we got the deeds )and we have payed taxs on the house from when we bought it in 1994 .we are told we cant get a cedula de habitabilidad its all so mixed up.we have a letter from MINISTERIO DE ECONOMICA Y HACIENDA DATED 03/04/2008 confirming what we have and still cant get one crazy or what :-/