State Pays 363.7 Million Dirhams in Land Acquisitions: 347 Beneficiaries Compensated

The total number of beneficiaries of financial compensation, as part of real estate acquisitions carried out for the benefit of the State, stood at 347 people at the end of 2024, for a total value of 363.7 million dirhams, according to the State Property Directorate in its annual report. These compensations cover land acquisition or expropriation operations for public utility, covering an estimated total area of 381 hectares, spread across 335 processed files. In total, 250 beneficiaries were compensated as part of amicable acquisitions, i.e. 72.05% of the total number of beneficiaries, while 97 others were compensated following expropriation procedures, representing 27.95%, the report specifies.

The use of the consensual approach is predominant. In total, 273 files were resolved by mutual agreement, compared to 62 files that required an expropriation procedure. An amount of 249.4 million dirhams was paid to the beneficiaries compensated by amicable agreement, compared to 114.3 million dirhams allocated to the compensations following expropriation judgments. The report of the State Property Directorate also shows that the use of expropriation remained relatively limited: it only concerned 28% of the files processed. Therefore, the use of negotiated solutions was prioritized for more than two-thirds of the cases.

This dynamic is part of the missions of the State Property Directorate aimed at "supporting sectoral strategies and policies, and extending public infrastructure throughout the national territory", it is estimated.