According to Justice Department documents, Charles Schwab transferred $27.7 million for Jeffrey Epstein to Morocco in 2019 . The funds were intended to purchase a palace in Marrakech just days before the financier’s incarceration.
The Interior Ministry has launched extensive inspections in the Casablanca and Marrakech regions and Rabat. Numerous mayors are suspected of corruption, real estate speculation, and illegally issuing building permits for their own benefit.
Spanish and Moroccan authorities have dismantled a money-laundering scheme involving wealthy entrepreneurs. They allegedly used drug-trafficking proceeds to purchase real estate on the Iberian Peninsula.
Confronted with systematic discrimination in their search for an apartment , tenants of Moroccan origin living in Spain decided to fight back. Armed with evidence, they denounced agencies’ illegal practices and secured unprecedented financial penalties.
The administrative capital is emerging as the driving force behind the national real estate market. In the third quarter of 2025, Rabat posted a spectacular performance, with prices rising by 3.2% and transactions jumping 27.4%, driven by residential and professional demand in full swing.
Serious urban planning violations are shaking several municipalities in the Casablanca-Settat, Marrakech-Safi and Rabat-Salé-Kénitra regions. Presidents of municipal councils and their deputies risk dismissal for illegally issuing building permits and bypassing supervisory authorities, thereby facilitating extensive tax and land fraud.
The economic capital is showing remarkable strength. In the third quarter of 2025, Casablanca records a 1.2% rise in prices and a spectacular 23.7% surge in transactions, confirming the market’s vigorous recovery, with the notable exception of land.
The property market in the ochre city is now moving at two speeds. While prices generally rose by 1% in the third quarter of 2025, the overall transaction volume posted a slight decline (-0.5%), dragged down by a sharp drop in activity in the commercial premises segment.
The Strait city posted mixed results in the third quarter of 2025. While the Tanger real estate market recorded a remarkable overall performance, with prices rising by 1.8 % and transactions jumping by 19.4 %, this momentum masks a sharp divide between the residential and professional sectors.
Beyond the major metropolises, the Moroccan real estate market is displaying contrasting faces in the third quarter of 2025. While El Jadida and Oujda are recording strong acceleration in activity, Fès and Agadir are evolving in relative calm, confirming a multi-speed market.
The Moroccan real estate market is confirming its recovery in the third quarter of 2025 with a widespread increase in indicators. The asset price index rose by 1.1%, supported by a significant 14% jump in the overall volume of transactions.
On the run since 2012, Mounir Mansouri, presented as a drug baron from the Paris region , appears on February 10 and 11 in Paris. He is being tried for his alleged role in two large-scale cannabis import networks from Morocco, facts for which he had already been heavily convicted in absentia.