This is the moment three women were caught on a doorbell cam trying to enter a Brit’s home on the Costa del Sol.
Footage shared on Instagram shows the trio walking down the steps to the front door of the property, believed to be in Fuengirola.
In the clip, one woman remains on the stairs while egging the other on to see if the door is open.
As she reaches for the handle, a man approaches the door and can be heard saying ‘hello?’ with a clear English accent.
The women then scurry up the stairs saying ‘sorry’ in Spanish, as the Brit shouts ‘no, no!’, seemingly aware of what they were up to.
The clip was shared on community page @Fuengirolasequeja, with a host of commenters claiming to have seen the women elsewhere.
‘Be very careful…’ the caption of the video read, ‘these women are entering homes and checking the locks.’
One commenter said: ‘They were in the El Faro area yesterday.’
Another added: ‘I’ve seen her in the Lagarejo urbanisation in Mijas.’
It is feared the women are staking out houses to see which ones are empty and prime picking for squatter gangs.
They typically target areas with a high concentration of foreign homeowners, as they tend to leave Spain for several weeks or months at a time.
Once they take over a home, the process to have them removed can take years.
It comes after Organic Law 1/2025 arrived with political fanfare earlier this year, promising swift justice that would empower property owners to boot out illegal occupiers.
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However, it seems the reality is far from what was promised, with squatters already finding ways to manipulate the law to their favour.
The ’15-day eviction’
At the heart of the new law is a fast-track eviction process that vows to remove squatters within 15 days.
But, according to the legislation, this only works ‘if the squatting is clearly illegal and uncontested’.
According to a report by OK Diario, squatters now routinely produce documents that question this premise, in a bid to delay the process.
While some are laughable, others are very convincing. More importantly, most are enough to claim that there was a prior rental agreement between the occupier and landlord.
Under the law, any such document forces a judge to take a closer look. Suddenly, that ‘express’ eviction morphs into a standard judicial procedure that drags on for weeks, if not months.
There is reportedly an online network of squatters that helps them create fake contracts to show to the courts and cast doubt on claims that they are squatting illegally.
There’s no shortage of guides, forums, and backchannels where squatters can also learn the latest delay tactics and share how to outwit the system.
Read more Costa del Sol news at the Spanish Eye.
