venda forçada
Published 8 November 2026, 22:47
venda forçada (forced sale)
The municipality puts a privately owned building up for sale if the owner has not carried out the repairs they were ordered to do. The owner receives the proceeds of the sale, and the obligation to put the building in order passes to the buyer.
Where you come across it. A run-down building in the city centre that the owner does nothing with.
This is not expropriation: the building passes not to the city but to a new buyer.