Rental Law

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...

Single glass of a monumental building is a defect according to judge The Amsterdam District Court recently issued a remarkable ruling in a rental case. The judge ruled that single glass of a monumental building from 1665 is considered a defect within the meaning of Article 7:204 paragraph 2 of the Civil Code. Lawyer rental law Robert van...

Tenant has arrears of more than 3 months, nevertheless no dissolution... The tenant of a property owned by housing corporation Stichting Goed Wonen in Gemert has allowed arrears in rent payments of almost 7 months to accumulate. Goed Wonen therefore went to the subdistrict court and claimed dissolution of the lease. The subdistrict court rejected the...

Indexing business premises rent by 14.5%: unreasonable or not? Due to the unprecedented high inflation in 2022, there is much discussion between tenants and landlords about the indexation of the rent of business space. Based on the widely used ROZ model lease agreement, many rents have been increased by 14.5% effective January 1, 2023. This is due to the...

Termination of lease agreement business premises Book 7 of the Civil Code contains provisions on the lease agreement business premises. A distinction is made between two types of lease contracts. Namely the so-called 230a-business space and the 290-business space. The numbers refer to the articles of law that regulate these matters. In short, it comes down to the fact that the rules of the...