Gone are the days of risky paper mandates. Since Monday, June 1st, Morocco requires electronic registration of any power of attorney linked to a real estate transaction . A radical reform aimed at eradicating fraud and securing sales.
Starting June 1, 2026, Morocco will enforce a new law regulating real estate powers of attorney . This major reform aims to secure land transactions and eradicate the scourge of property seizures affecting many owners.
On June 1, 2026, Morocco will launch a national register of powers of attorney related to real rights . This reform by the Ministry of Justice aims to secure real estate transactions and prevent land fraud through increased traceability.
The Minister of Justice, Abdellatif Ouahbi, is launching the official register of real estate powers of attorney in Morocco starting June 1, 2026. This digital system aims to secure land transactions through the courts of first instance of the Kingdom.
Faced with illegal occupations, the Ministry of the Interior is trying to protect soulaliyate lands against dispossession , before integrating them into the socio-economic development dynamics of Morocco. In this sense, through its Directorate of Rural Affairs, it has launched a large-scale operation to census and regularize collectively-owned properties exploited outside any legal framework.
Morocco is about to take a new step in its fight against real estate dispossession. A ministerial decision, recently published, concretizes the implementation of a national system aimed at securing transactions and preventing fraud related to powers of attorney.
Following the discovery of a network of real estate dispossession, specialized in the illegal appropriation of land belonging to urban municipalities, and involving powerful developers and certain local elected officials, Abdelouafi Laftit, Minister of the Interior, has ordered in-depth investigations.
Reports from the interior affairs services have revealed the involvement of elected officials and civil servants from the regions of Casablanca-Settat, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra and Tanger-Tétouan-Al Hoceïma in real estate speculation operations on subdivisions located in areas under their jurisdiction.
The case of a complaint filed by a Jewish citizen, who accuses current and former elected officials, a real estate developer and a dismissed authority agent of having dispossessed his real estate located in the Gzenaya region, continues before the Court of Appeal of Tangier.
Targeted by an investigation into real estate transactions tainted with irregularities, an elected member of the National Rally of Independents (RNI), has been placed in pre-trial detention by the investigating judge at the Court of Appeal of Tangier.
The trial of the Apollonia case, considered one of the biggest real estate scandals in France, and in which Morocco is mentioned, continues before the judicial court of Marseille, having started on March 31.
On the order of the King’s Attorney General at the Casablanca Court of Appeal, the national judicial police brigade in Casablanca is conducting an investigation into a complex case involving the spoliation of abandoned properties.