Spain's evictions fall 35.7% in Q2 2026 as rent-arrears cases drop 57.7%
Spanish courts carried out 4,474 evictions between April and June 2026, while insolvency filings rose 5.1% over the same quarter of 2025. Rent-arrears evictions fell the most, but evictions for other causes more than doubled.
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Spanish courts carried out 4,474 evictions between April and June 2026, according to data from the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), a 35.7% fall from the same quarter of 2025. Evictions linked to rent arrears made up half of the total and dropped 57.7%. Mortgage-related evictions numbered 1,109, down 8.9%, while evictions for other causes, such as arbitration awards or family proceedings, rose 152.5%, from 444 to 1,121. La Vanguardia reported different figures, a 60% overall fall to 4,499 and a 48% drop in rent-related cases to 2,244, which do not match the CGPJ numbers in the other reports.
- Rent arrears
- 2244 evictions
- Mortgage
- 1109 evictions
- Other causes
- 1121 evictions
Regional picture
Catalonia recorded the most evictions of any kind, 983 or 21.9% of the national total, followed by Madrid with 778, Andalusia with 737 and the Valencian Community with 629. Rent-related evictions were also led by Catalonia (456, or 10.1%), ahead of Andalusia (397) and the Valencian Community (361). Andalusia led mortgage-related evictions with 247, or 22.2% of the national total. Measured per 100,000 inhabitants, rent-related evictions were highest in the Balearic Islands (8.3), the Basque Country (7.4) and the Valencian Community (6.7), and lowest in La Rioja (1.5) and Madrid (1.6). In Galicia, courts carried out 145 evictions, 54.7% fewer than a year earlier, while Cantabria recorded 42, down 16%.
- Catalonia
- 983 evictions
- Madrid
- 778 evictions
- Andalusia
- 737 evictions
- Valencian Community
- 629 evictions
Occupation claims and enforcement
New proceedings over unlawful occupation of homes numbered 443 nationally, a 9% decline on 2025, with the Balearic Islands highest at 2.5 per 100,000 inhabitants. Requests for evictions sent to the shared notification and seizure services totalled 17,276, up 26.8%, and 8,972 of them ended in compliance, up 11.1%. The CGPJ warned that these shared services do not exist in every court district, so the figure shows change over time but not absolute totals. In Cantabria, occupation lawsuits stayed at five, the same as in 2025.
- Total
- -35.7 %
- Rent arrears
- -57.7 %
- Mortgage
- -8.9 %
- Other causes
- 152.5 %
Insolvency filings
Insolvency filings (concursos de acreedores) reached 19,024 in the second quarter of 2026 in commercial courts, a 5.1% rise on the same quarter of 2025. The upward trend that began in the third quarter of 2020 has continued almost without pause. Filings by sole traders fell 10.8% to 672, while non-business individuals filed 16,948, up 5.9%, and legal entities filed 1,404, up 4.6%. Catalonia again led with 4,631 filings, or 24.3% of the total, followed by Madrid with 3,033, Andalusia with 2,891 and the Valencian Community with 2,002. In Cantabria, filings rose 33.8% to 206.
Housing protests
The figures arrive while protests over housing access continue after the eviction of one woman whose old-rent contract ended, a case that sparked demonstrations and an encampment at Puerta del Sol in Madrid. That eviction falls outside the April to June data. According to La Vanguardia, the government has pushed decrees to give tenants more protection. Rent-related evictions still account for half of all evictions, a share that La Razón links to households finding rents increasingly hard to pay.
