What should have been an exciting new home for her and her family ended up becoming a nightmare that she doesn’t know how to get out of. Ana Tapias has lived – and paid for – an apartment in Reus for two years, but since April 2024 she has been threatened with eviction. “Now I’m being told that the apartment I live in is not the one I’m paying for,” Ana exclaims. “That I have to leave this one because it belongs to an investment fund and, at the same time, that I cannot go to the one for which I pay because it is occupied,” she laments.
The origin of all this disorder, put forward by the Tarragona Journalit was an error in noting the address of the apartment in the deed of purchase. A first decision which then allowed the seller, Solvia, to also sell the same apartment to an investment fund, Graminia Homes. It is this fund that presents itself as the owner of Ana’s apartment and argues in court that the reuse actually purchased the adjacent property.
But as the person concerned explains, this is not true. In the spring of 2022, she was looking for a spacious, four-bedroom apartment where she could live with her now deceased parents, her 20-year-old son and her dog. This is why he opted for a 116 meter property, with four bedrooms and a terrace, which he acquired for just under 100,000 euros after signing a mortgage loan. Meanwhile, the apartment written for him is much smaller, interior and with no outdoor space.
“They deceived him,” explains his lawyer, who requested a stay of the expulsion. Although he admits that there was no bad faith on the part of either party, the lawyer maintains that the only solution left for them is to sue the seller, Solvia, or to try to convince him to come to an agreement with the investment fund to which he sold the apartment to repair the mess. Contacted by this editorial staff, Solvia specifies that its team is studying the case to “see what exactly happened” and try to resolve the error “as quickly as possible”.
Ana demands to stay in her apartment, because she assures that she would never have bought the one that was finally allocated to her. But, in desperation, she tried to negotiate a way out with the person occupying her property, to at least have a safe place to live, without the agreement of the other party.
Victim of a legal boondoggle for which no one is responsible, she fears that the time for her expulsion is coming. “If they throw me out, where will I go, with only one salary and another mortgage? I feel powerless against a big owner,” she complains. Ana describes the effects this situation had on a personal level: “Everything happened suddenly, first my father died, then my mother and then this; I didn’t have time to grieve because my head wasn’t centered.”
In addition, they fear the effects that a possible expulsion could have on their loved ones. “If I was alone, I would go anywhere, I would drive and take a shower at a gym. But I have a 20-year-old son, who is studying, and a dog,” she says, while reflecting that her biggest fear is that something happens to him and she ends up “transferring this problem” to her son.
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