These spaces are available for sale housing or lease offices to non-permanent residents or foreign firms. This modality was suspended in 2000; today there are 200 special cases foreigners owning property in Havana and half a dozen incomplete constructions. The historical analysis and the consequences of these laws are available at Hamberg 1994, p. 54. If an old firm is registered as the owner of the urban plot, the State is the legal successor; however, if a natural person is registered as owner, the issue becomes complex, as an investigation has to be carried out in order to find whether the owner or his heirs are still living in Cuba.
La modalidad fue suspendida y lo que quedan son alrededor de 200 casos especiales extranjeros con una vivienda de propiedad en La Habana y media docena de ruinas de construcción incompletas. Para un análisis histórico o sobre los efectos de estas leyes: véase Hamberg 1994, p. 54. Si una empresa antigua era inscrita como propietaria el Estado es sucesor legal; si una persona natural es inscrita como propietaria el asunto se complica, pues hay que investigar si ella o sus herederos siguen residiendo en Cuba.