The latest news from Spanish media: As other parts of Spain increasingly strict legal control over illegal housing occupation behavior, the Catalonian region government also plans to amend relevant laws to speed up the process of evicting illegal housing occupation owners.
Since many vacant properties in the Catalonian region are held by large capitalists or banks, these property owners will let the phenomenon of real estate occupied, which has had an extremely bad impact on the control of the regional government and even the living environment of residents in Catalonian . The laws planned to be amended by the regional government this time will give third-party residents greater supervision rights and force the property owner to actively call the police and demand eviction. In addition, the regional government plans to implement the functions of the expulsion operation and delegate it to local municipal governments from the court.
Due to the above-mentioned legal amendments, it will touch on the main method implemented in 2007 and the civil law implemented by the regional government for more than 40 years. At present, the above proposal is just a piece of paper, and the plan and date are temporarily implemented.
According to internal information from the Catalonian region government, many residents of cities and cities complain about the occupation of vacant houses nearby, but even if they go to the police, the local municipal government and police departments can only let the house occupying owners go without receiving the report from the property owner. Therefore, the new anti-housing law will give third-party residents the right to supervise, and the police are obliged to respond on the premise that residents report the case.
The so-called "third-party residents" are defined by the regional government as the neighbors, residents or residents' committees of the same property. After they file a complaint with the government functional department, the government must immediately contact the occupied house and hand it over to them for one month to resolve the matter; if the property owner is unable to evict the occupied house within one month, the third-party residents and the municipal government have the right to request the implementation of the eviction procedure. On the other hand, if property rights housing ignores government eviction requirements, it will face a fine of up to 9000 euros and a maximum of 90,000 euros.
According to statistics from the Catalan government, most of the housing that has been illegally occupied in the region is held by banks or investment fund . Most of these houses are bad debt real estate that could not be recovered before. Many banks and funds have been chaotic in their management and cannot sort out the real estate under their name, which has caused the current chaos.
The regional government plans to implement the above new bill to force banks and funds to strengthen housing control and delegate it to the sale or rental market. At the same time, the regional government also plans to force these houses to be used for "social purposes" if large capital continues to be vacant housing.
Since the above new law will touch on the real estate law of 2007 and the traditional Catalan civil law, the entire planning process will take 7 to 8 months and will need to be discussed by the regional council. It can be passed and implemented as soon as possible in the summer of 2023.
