If your home is squatted, acting fast and well is decisive. We explain the legal routes and timelines to recover it.
Renting · Updated October 2026 · 6 min read
Squatting of a home is one of an owner's biggest worries. Speed and the chosen route are key to recovering it.
Alarms, keeping the home not apparently empty and acting in the first hours make the difference. Do not try to remove them by force: do it through the legal route. We advise you from minute one; buying an already-occupied flat is a different matter.
It is not advisable: it can backfire. The correct approach is to act through the legal route (a criminal complaint for breaking and entering or usurpation and/or eviction), and to do so as quickly as possible.
Yes. If it is your dwelling, it may constitute breaking and entering, a more serious offence that allows faster action, even police action if caught in flagrante. For empty properties the route is usually slower.
Report it immediately; if you act within the first hours, in flagrante, the police can evict without a court process. After that you must go to court. Act as soon as possible.
Depending on the case, the summary eviction for unlawful occupation or the criminal route for usurpation or trespass. We choose the fastest for your situation.
Be careful: any forced eviction outside the law can be a crime and backfire. The safe route is through the courts, which we handle for you.
We analyse your case and guide you through the fastest route to recover possession of your home.
