Spain. Property. Society. Law-Housing 2012 (20 images)

SPAIN, Madrid : Spanish Vicente Torres, 73, lies in his bed in his appartment in Madrid on April 18, 2012. Torres, who is severy ill and underwent a recent heart surgery, faces an eviction from his house. Eviction procedures in Spanish courts for unpaid mortgages and rent hit a record of 58,241 in 2011, a 21.2 percent rise over the previous year. Evictions have soared in Spain since the collapse of a property bubble in 2008 that triggered the country's economic crisis. (c) Pedro ARMESTRE