Real Estate Law

When you enter into a purchase agreement for real estate, it almost always includes a penalty clause. Whether or not you can successfully invoke it, or to what extent such an appeal is possible, depends on the wording of the penalty clause. This is again evident from a fairly...

Requirement in writing when buying real estate: this you need to know When buying real estate, there is sometimes a requirement that the purchase must be in writing. A verbal agreement is then not sufficient. This is the case when a consumer buys a home. Outside of those cases, it usually applies that the purchase is also verbally...

Elderly leaseholder must renovate castle and then leave An elderly widow has been a leaseholder of a castle owned by Stichting Utrechts Landschap for 40 years. Shortly before the lease ends, she was summoned by the nature organization. The latter demanded that the lady be ordered to carry out maintenance work on the castle. She must perform those...

Tenant violates association rules: court orders eviction Most owners and users know that owners must adhere to the regulations in force within their Owners' Association. That this is also the case for tenants is less well known. For one Amsterdam tenant this led to dissolution of the lease....

Terminating residential lease: watch out for snags! Housing tenants enjoy rent protection. This (and more) has been in the news a lot recently. Moreover, this protection is getting stronger and stronger. This makes termination of a lease even more difficult. One solution is to terminate the lease by mutual consent. However, this does not hold either...

Be Sharp When Reading (and Drafting) Unit Ownership Deed It goes without saying, of course, that you should read the unit ownership deed of an MoU carefully. And hopefully that deed is then sharply and cleanly worded. Especially if you want to know what is or is not allowed in the building. That actually applies to everything...