Camelot Property Management Ltd. is a vacant property management firm started in the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 in 1993. Camelot manages commercial and residential property on behalf of landlords and property developers, assigning people to occupy vacant buildings to deter squatters

Squatting

Squatting consists of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied space or building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have permission to use....

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Occupiers pay a deposit, a weekly management fee and are responsible for Council Tax

Council tax

Council Tax is the system of local taxation used in England, Scotland and Wales to part fund the services provided by local government in each country. It was introduced in 1993 by the Local Government Finance Act 1992, as a successor to the unpopular Community Charge...

. They are required to provide security and maintain the property. The occupiers do not have tenancy rights and have less rights than squatters.

Camelot also provide squat eviction

Eviction

How you doing???? Eviction is the removal of a tenant from rental property by the landlord. Depending on the laws of the jurisdiction, eviction may also be known as unlawful detainer, summary possession, summary dispossess, forcible detainer, ejectment, and repossession, among other terms...

services and security guards. The company successfully lobbied the French government to introduce anti-squatting legislation.

External links

• Carefree Vacant Property, an independent documentary film about Camelot