Desalojo y Lanzamiento — Recovering Possession

Argentina (AR) — civil law.

Nothing on this page describes United States practice. There is no certificate sold to an investor, no administrative sale, and no post-sale redemption window in Argentina. If you arrived carrying US assumptions, read falsos-amigos first.

Desalojo y lanzamiento

Title and possession are two different things in Argentina, obtained by two different steps.

The sequence

1. Title — `auto de aprobación`, registration by oficio judicial.
2. Order for delivery of possession — requested in the executing file.
3. Mandamiento served by an oficial de justicia.
4. Lanzamiento — the physical removal, executed by the oficial de justicia, with police assistance where ordered.

No self-help.

Changing the locks, cutting services or removing an occupant’s belongings is not available to the buyer and will produce liability rather than possession. The lanzamiento is a judicial act carried out by a court officer.

Timing

Slow, and slower where the property is a family home. Argentine courts have been willing to grant time, to order social-services involvement, and to suspend lanzamientos in particular circumstances. Concrete timelines: needs_verification, and in any event highly local.

Where the occupant is not the ejecutado

If someone other than the debtor is in possession on a claimed right of their own — a tenant, or a possessor asserting for themselves — obtaining possession may require a separate desalojo action rather than a lanzamiento in the executing file. That is a materially longer road. See ocupantes and usucapion.

Budget for it

Legal costs, the delay, and carrying costs including accruing `expensas` all run during this period. Build it into the bid — see costos-de-la-subasta.