... Vazquez lawyers malaga marbella contact phone (+34) 952215859 clients escape legal action by the bank when it comes to mortgage default. Not even property owners who hand over their keys to the bank and return to their home countries, victims of the financial situation in Spain and with no family or social resources here to fall back on. But the banks have all the time in the world and the law does not prevent them from following up a legal judgement in another country. In no more than three years the number of mortgage foreclosures in Spain (the final legal step to repossess a property in the case of default) has almost multiplied by four, reaching 93,622 cases in 2010, according to statistics from the CGPJ (General Council for the Judiciary). “The majority involve foreign citizens” maintain sources, both from the association for those affected by property seizure and auction, AFES, and from certain financial institutions that have dealt significantly with foreign property buyers ...