Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2020 9:54am
"I answered a advertisement on the estate agents site. Should I pay?"
By looking on their site you were for all intents and purposes asking them to find you a property and the fact that they happened to have a suitable one already on the books can't be used as a excuse to not pay their fees.
Personally I've never either rented or rented out a property in Spain - or anywhere - but I have to say that I would have expected agents fees to be down to a landlord and not a prospective tenant but maybe that's the norm here I don't know.
One thing is for certain though, agents can't work for free so one party is going to have to pay.
You could look at another way, if a tenant is not paying the fees then a landlord might well put the rent up to cover them which in this case would make it €650/mth instead of €600 and you'd be paying them anyway.