Express eviction law

Spain's new Housing Law is dominating real estate conversations across the country and beyond. At the recent real estate fair Sima, the vast majority of the speakers were opposed to the implementation of this law.

Spain's Platform of People Affected by Squatting (PAO), like many others, has expressed its worries concerning the country's new Housing Law.

The COVID-19 pandemic in Spain has increased cases of squatting due to the inability of homeowners to check on their second homes due to the state of alarm.

The topic of squatters in Spain, or okupas in Spanish, is a controversial problem across the country.

The number of evictions of people not paying their rent has increased in Spain, accounting for almost 60% of all evictions in 2017.

Squatting and squatters are currently on everyone’s minds in Spain. For homeowners whose property is being squatted in, the first thing that usually goes through their head is to go to the Police Station or the Court, because it is a crime of usurpation.

The Congressional Justice Commission (Comisión de Justicia del Congreso) has approved the Proposition for a Law from the Catalan European Democratic Party (PDeCat) to speed up the eviction of illegally squatted housing, especially by mafias. It does not affect tenants who do not pay rent.