Lobbying against property mobbing
Intimidation, blackmail, and conspiracy… Europe’s property owners are resorting to extreme methods to oust tenants and manipulate the market. In Spain, tenants denounce increasing ‘property mobbing’
Madrid. Manoli, Mayte and Lola have been living in the same apartment block for 30 years. But for the past four, they have lived in the fear they might be evicted or that their house would collapse. After an initial attempt to throw them out, their property agency now refuses to repair damages to the building in the hope they’d leave ‘voluntarily’.