Real Estate Law

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...

VvE to tolerate advertising and delivery bikes from New York Pizza An Association of Owners (VvE) in the Amersfoort area is experiencing nuisance from an establishment of New York Pizza. The delivery restaurant is located in one of the apartments belonging to the VvE. The nuisance is caused by scooters and bicycles blocking the entrances, odors from...

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...