Daniel González Iglesias, physicist and researcher at the Universitat de València (UV), faces next week a moment he has been trying to avoid for almost a decade. The date of his eviction is set for September 30, which will force him to leave the rental apartment in Burjassot (Valencia) where he has lived since 2009, after having transferred the ownership of the apartment through different companies.
"What surprises and outrages me is that I find myself in this situation having everything in order and having been the one who has had to go after these companies to pay them the rent," he stated in statements to Europa Press Televisión. In the interview, he details a long legal conflict that has led him to conclude that "the system does not work and the State, or the judicial system, is failing everywhere."
Daniel moved into the apartment in September 2009, when he was still a student, sharing the residence, then owned by Ingrade SL, with other people. Together they paid a monthly rent of 594 euros. Over time, the roommates changed until he finally ended up alone in the property.
With the economic crisis of 2012 and 2013, the company began to incorporate annexes to the contract to reduce the rent, which went from 594 euros to 350 euros per month in order to alleviate the economic situation. Subsequently, another annex was signed that included an option to purchase the apartment for 71,000 euros, an amount from which the already paid monthly payments would be deducted, as Daniel explains. That document also included the right of first refusal and redemption. Three years later, the owner entered bankruptcy and Daniel began to deposit the rent in court to avoid any incidents due to non-payments.
In 2017, the apartment went up for public auction and Daniel submitted a document to the court to inform that he resided in the property and that he had a recognized option to purchase. The auction was suspended and a ruling confirmed his right to continue as a tenant, the modification of the rent, and the existence of the option to purchase, as he recounts.
Accusations of "maneuvers" and new legal conflict
Nevertheless, according to Daniel's version, the auction procedure was reactivated and the bankruptcy administrator informed him that CaixaBank had acquired the property. Later, Coral Homes S.L., participated by the entity, sued him for unlawful occupation, although, the investigator emphasizes, that lawsuit was dismissed. "There was a trial in 2020, they gave me reason again," he has indicated.
In his opinion, from that moment on, the property began to implement "maneuvers" to be able to allege non-payment and force his exit from the apartment. "At that time, I was already trying, through burofax and official communications with these companies, ultimately all satellites of the bank, to exercise the option to purchase, which had been previously recognized judicially, but these people remained silent in response. Moreover, they prevented me from paying the rents. They did not provide the account number. I had to go to voluntary jurisdiction procedures in court for them to provide an account number so I could pay the rents," he has recalled.
He details that between 2018 —when the bankruptcy administrator indicated that he should stop depositing the rent in the court account— and 2020, the year in which he initiated a new voluntary jurisdiction procedure to consign the rents again, he could not make payments because he did not have a landlord account number.
Later on, according to both Daniel and the Sindicat d'Habitatge de València, the property took him back to court in 2023, "overlooking the two previous rulings," they emphasize. The company ended up selling the property in 2025 for a much higher amount than the 71,000 euros set in the option to purchase, to a new buyer who decided to continue the legal action against him.
"In 2023 they sued me for non-payment and what they said was that I had to pay 594 euros a month, instead of the 350 that I had been paying since before the bankruptcy proceedings because only the first contract was looked at, in bad faith or due to incompetence, in which that amount appears, but there are ten annexes, among which is the option to purchase and a series of reductions in the rental price," he has explained.
Daniel claims that he lost this last procedure "against all odds." According to him, in the ruling, the judge concludes that the agreed rent is 594 euros per month "without any modification of the amount" being recorded afterwards, something that he and his lawyer reject, considering that they have provided the relevant documentation. The sentence —from March 2026— condemns him to vacate the property and to pay 35,620.88 euros for supposedly overdue rents.
On April 28, an appeal was filed denouncing the alleged "irregularities" of the procedure, but it was not admitted as the prior deposit of the bond claimed by the opposing party (more than 35,000 euros) was required. Thus, the eviction will be executed on September 30 at 11:00 a.m. Daniel laments that "there is no Justice" and describes his judicial journey as "completely aberrant." In his view, "there is no justification" for the decision made by the judge.
"They have trampled all my rights" and protests on the day of the eviction
"For me, it is an impressive feeling of helplessness," he has stated, insisting that he has never intended to "live for free." "From the beginning, with my lawyer, I have tried to do everything legally and this is the result," he has denounced.
"In some way, they have trampled all my rights and the court has allowed it. In the end, I doing everything legally, waiting, having to endure a lot of years, now it ends this way, in a way that neither my lawyer nor I could imagine," he has added.
With the recent case of Maricarmen, the 87-year-old woman evicted this week in Madrid, very much in mind, the investigator maintains that "the system does not work." "I, within what can be, am fortunate, I have somewhere to go, I have a job, but this lady's case is completely aberrant and outrageous. It is something that in a state that claims to be a rule of law, that claims to be democratic, should not happen in any way," he has emphasized.
For this reason, on the day of the eviction, he plans to remain in the property and "protest." "There will be a concentration, I am being very supported by the people of the Sindicat d'Habitatge de València and we are going to hold a peaceful demonstration to show the discontent with this judicial decision, because the system does not work and at the very least it must be denounced," he has stated.
Until that date arrives, Daniel's lawyer "is doing everything humanly possible, beyond what she can," to try to stop the release. "Hopefully there is luck, but it is complicated," she has concluded.