COMPRAVENTACOR: a website for the translation of housing purchase and sale agreements in Spain, Argentina, the United Kingdom and the United States
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The buying and selling homes between countries such as Spain, Argentina, the United Kingdom and the United States is currently growing. This real estate business brings with it not only a large movement of international capital, but also a high demand for writing and translating of housing purchase and sale agreements. However, at present, translators hardly have resources to carry out this task effectively. Thereby, the main objective of this work arises, namely, to facilitate the processes related to the translation and writing of housing purchase and sale agreements in transactions between Spain, Argentina, the United Kingdom and the United States through the implementation of a free access web site containing documentary resources designed for that purpose. These resources, which will be housed on the COMPARVENTACOR website, will be a glossary, the law applicable, a corpus management tool and templates for the semi-automatic writing of housing purchase and sale agreements. These resources will allow their users to reduce time, cost and even intermediaries, which will increase profits and productivity. The potential users of the COMPRAVENTACOR website, and the resources it offers, are expected to be not only translators, but also other professionals such as interpreters, linguists, terminologists or even lawyers, including real estate agents or notaries, reaching the buyers themselves individually.
Keywords: Buying and selling homes, COMPRAVENTACOR, Glossary, Legal translation, Corpus, Writing templates.
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