MREs and ghost apartments

According to official data, the number of empty apartments in the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region is estimated at around 334,000 units, representing 15.6% of the total number of unoccupied apartments in Morocco. Many of them belong to Moroccans living abroad (MRE).

With this rate, Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima is the second region in Morocco in terms of the number of empty apartments, after Casablanca-Settat. The increase in the number of unoccupied apartments in the Northern region is justified in particular by the purchase of these homes by many Moroccans living abroad (MRE) who only occupy them during their stay in the kingdom.