Real Estate Law

Appointment of VvE board without a meeting is null and void A recently published judgment of the Rotterdam District Court shows that the appointment of the board of an Owners' Association (VvE) must always go through the meeting. If a director appointed himself, or for example with the help of the previous board at the Chamber of Commerce (CoC) as a director...

Buyer cheated when buying vacation home on rental plot Investing in vacation homes is increasingly popular. Europarcs is one of the best-known providers of such vacation homes. Yet the company recently faced a legal nightmare. In June of this year, an Amsterdam judge ruled that Europarcs had misled a woman when purchasing a...

Court of Appeal ends neighbor dispute: property boundary moved with shore line due to accretion The owners of two villas on the Bergse Voorplas in Rotterdam have been arguing for nearly 10 years over ownership of a tip of a headland. The neighbor accessed that tip in 2016 and erected a fence on it. Right on the spot...

VvE doesn't count blank votes, court does. Who had it right? At a large Owner's Association (VvE) in the Utrecht region, a dispute arose over whether or not a decision to make preservation was made. Three scenarios for that preservation were presented to the meeting of the VvE. The...

Can landlords change locks and vacate? Sometimes they are! A thorn in every landlord's side: a tenant who does not pay. You often have to wait until the rent arrears reach three months before you can successfully initiate summary eviction proceedings. Does it concern a house? Then nowadays you even have to file a report first...

Lawyer acts for both member and owner of an association, is that allowed? In a recent ruling by the Arnhem-Leeuwarden Board of Discipline, a lawyer was reprimanded for acting for both an Owners' Association and a member of that association. According to the Council he had violated the core values of independence and partiality. Lawyer...