Property occupation: an event of illegitimate possession

Abstract

The squatting of real estate is a current and worrying phenomenon in our country, since it allows the possession of real estate in an illegitimate way in front of its owner. The great growth of this phenomenon in recent years makes us wonder what this phenomenon really is from the legal point of view, what is the nature of the rights confronted in it, and as a consequence of this, what are the means of defense of each one of the intervening subjects, to try to find out which one should prevail. In this work these issues will be analyzed, trying to shed light on a possessory phenomenon that should not have any further legal protection.