VvE

Appeal deadline in VvE cases: stay sharp! In an earlier blog we wrote about an owner who wanted to build a roof extension. The subdistrict court in Rotterdam granted permission, but the Court of Appeal of The Hague (ECLI:NL:GHDHA:2024:2205) ruled against it. Before the court could reach this verdict, however, an important question had to be...

Owner goes wrong with deadline for voiding VvE resolution It goes wrong very often. Many owners invariably wait for the minutes of the meeting. They think that only then does the deadline to request the annulment of the resolutions taken start to run. Many VvE members went wrong as a result. According to attorney Robert van Ewijk, who specializes in...

Judge forbids calling a VvE director a fraudster, swindler, cheat and liar Two (former) directors of a VvE in Hillegom are quarreling. This quarrel is being played out on the backs of the other owners of the building. Bills are hung up in the hall and letters and e-mails are sent around to the members. These are not...

Owner's association administrator appeals to AVG, justified or not? When members of an Owners' Association request access to the records of the VvE, directors or managers often invoke the AVG. The AVG would then prevent the provision of privacy-sensitive information to members of the CoE. But is such a...

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...

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...