VvE

On February 25, 2025, the Arnhem-Leeuwarden Court of Appeal (ECLI:NL:GHARL:2025:1071) ruled on a dispute resolution provision in the division regulations of a VvE. An apartment owner came into conflict with the VvE over renovations to her home. The VvE went to the subdistrict court. In itself nothing out of the ordinary, were it not for the fact that in the subdivision deed of the apartment complex there is a...

The Amsterdam District Court has overturned a number of VvE resolutions because the meeting took place in the wrong municipality. This follows from a judgment published yesterday (ECLI:NL:RBAMS:2025:4860). The VvE's subdivision deed states that meetings must be held in the municipality in which the building stands. However, the administrator of the VvE did not comply with that...

Storage as living space: is it allowed under the VvE rules? Suppose you have a home in an apartment building and a storage room in the attic. Can you use that storage room as an extra bedroom or study? Of course, that would be beneficial: you create additional living space, the value of your apartment increases because the living space is...

Replacement authorization in the pocket! But now what? It all seems quite simple. In fact, the law is quite clear about substitute authorization in the CoE. Because if you are a member of an MoU need to perform an act that requires permission from the meeting, you can get that permission from the court. The...

Inspection VvE records sometimes also means issuing In various court decisions it has been ruled that the right to inspect VvE records does not necessarily mean a right to issue copies. However, this does not automatically mean that the right to issue copies does not exist anyway. The court decisions in which this has been...

VvE liable for basement leakage? (Part 2 of the blog series ‘Wet Feet’) The consequences of these high groundwater levels are significant. By now we are all familiar with the floods, especially in the south of the Netherlands. Infrastructure also suffers from groundwater: in January 2023, the Vollenhoventunnel on the A28, near...