Courts across Spain registered 1,782 judicial proceedings for the occupation of homes during the first nine months of the year, according to data released by the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ).
In just the third quarter of 2024, there were 580 judicial complaints for home occupation, a 55% increase year-on-year compared to the 373 judicial complaints from the summer of 2023, confirming that the issues of legal insecurity affecting property owners continue to grow at a dizzying pace.
And we are only talking about complaints in the courts, as in 2023, police recorded 15,289 complaints for occupation.
In the cumulative total for the first three quarters of 2024, the autonomous community with the highest volume of judicial proceedings for occupation is Catalonia, with a total of 366. The figures are also poor in Andalusia, with 326 complaints, and in Valencia Community, with 334. Madrid recorded a total of 138 cases, which accounts for 7% of the total accumulated from January to September, less than half of what it would correspond to if we consider its population.
The average waiting time to resolve an occupation case in court is around 23 months, a figure that has doubled under Pedro Sánchez’s government, and it can exceed 35 months in some autonomous communities.
