Squatting is when someone has entered a property and is living there without the permission of the owner or the person with a legal right to live there. A squatter is not someone who has entered the property in good faith. Reasonably believing they had permission’s to do so e.g. being left in occupation by the contract holder). Squatting in a residential property became a criminal offence in September 2012.
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