Getting rid of a Timeshare property

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Mum and dad purchased a Spanish Timeshare in 1998.
Dad died in 2001. Mum carried on using it until she died in 2019.
After her death we found out that the rights to use it goes on to the heirs.
None of us (2 sisters and a brother) want it as it's not suitable for our likes
for a holiday. Too far from a town or beach.
We employed in 2019 a company that helps you get released from the contract.
It is now 2025 and we are no closer to getting rid. All paperwork has been signed
and all fees paid. They did say it could take a while but nearly 6 years is a joke.
I want to put a complaint in to the ombudsman for solicitors if there is any such thing.

Does anyone have any other ideas or advice.

Somebody will probably have more knowledge about this, but I wanted to bump and say it sounds horrendous. I hope you get some movement soon

@Nandorsknee thank you for bumping.
We feel angry mum and dad didn't read the contract properly.
They were secretive about everything.

We had the same thing when my parents died - none of us wanted the timeshare and the management fees were £100s pa. The solicitor handling my mum's estate after she died managed to buy us out of it - it cost us about £6000 I think which obviously came out of the estate but it was sorted in about 6 months.
Have you consulted a solicitor at all?

There is no market for these properties now - we dealt with one after the death if a relative and ended up essentially giving it away in order to avoid future maintenance costs. There are various agents online you can approach, it took us a while but it is possible. There’s nothing a solicitor can really do in my view

My mum had a timeshare for a number of years and could forego her allocated time in it per year, and "swap" it for accommodation in other parts of the country/world. Does the timeshare belong to such a scheme? At least that way you might get some benefit from it?

I think there have been articles about the agents that promise to get you released from these schemes. Are you paying them for a service and they aren’t doing anything?

A lot of timeshares have a perpetuity clause (so you can’t just give it up) and is heritable (so you pass the liability on to your heirs) I feel like the time would of been during probate. No one wants it, there will be mechanism that shuts it down but it probably would have been expensive. There are resale sites. Someone might be willing to take it on for free.

I have some knowledge of this from advising a friend. Some of the companies are essentially taking them back. When her father died, she got in touch with the company and said X has died, there is no one to assume the time share and the maintenance will not be paid on an ongoing basis, and they allowed her to sign it back over to them.

I am in the process of disposing of a Spanish timeshare owned by my late husband in his sole name (purchased before we got together). Has perpetuity clause in the ownership documents so unless I do something this will become a noose around my childrens neck in the future. My plan is to relinquish the weeks back to the resort. The resale value will be pretty minimal anyway, even if I did find a buyer. I understand that Spanish law requires that the weeks owned are transferred into my name before I can proceed. On advice from the resort I have engaged a Spanish Lawyer based in the U.K. who is currently obtaining the necessary documentation (Spanish Power of Attorney and NIE number). The weeks can then be registered in my name and I will have the legal power to dispose of them. I think the cost will be in the region of £2000 and take around 3 to 6 months. I will have to pay a fee to give the weeks back to the resort too (around £1000 I believe) but then I will have legally disposed of them