Our Expertise is Real Estate, Tenancy and Construction Law
We are passionate about ongoing training and have a keen interest in the particularities and further development of the construction and real estate sector. We want to achieve tailored and efficient solutions for our clients with our proven expertise and understanding. This also includes recognising the needs that guide partners and counterparties.
We advise and represent private and public clients, as well as architects, engineers and contracting companies, property owners, buyers and sellers, as well as lessors and tenants. Here we have a comprehensive understanding of the various concerns of real estate and construction stakeholders, enabling practical and efficient solutions.
Real estate law
Would you like to buy a private or commercial building or an apartment, or perhaps divide up and legally restructure an entire development? Do you want to entrust an architect or company with planning and realising a new construction project? Do contracts need to be prepared and coordinated and services secured? We will be pleased to advise you. We will also be at your side in the event of any construction disruptions or building defects. At the same time, we also support contractors and planners if the client withholds the owed remuneration or holds them responsible for alleged building defects.
Real estate law, contract law and law applicable to works and services
Building contracts.
Architect and planner contracts.
Construction consortia and planning associations.
Industry standards and regulations, such as SIA and KBOB.
Liability and construction insurance law, building insurance.
Digital building, BIM
Property law
Builders’ liens, easements and mortgages.
Building rights agreements.
Floor and co-ownership rights.
Neighbouring rights.
Notarisation law and land register law.
Real estate transactions
Sales, purchase and agency agreements.
Support in real estate developments.
Assignments, financing and surety agreements.
Legal due diligence in real estate.
Acquisition of property by persons abroad (Lex Koller), second home law.
Inheritance law
Succession arrangements for real estate.
Estate and marital property planning, company succession.
Testamentary disposition (last will), marriage/inheritance contracts, inheritance advances.
Execution of wills and administration of estates.
Distribution of estates.
Tenancy law
Is your tenant not paying rent? Are tenants demanding a rent reduction due to a neighbour’s construction site? Does your apartment or commercial property contain defects and is the lessor refusing to rectify them? Have you received notice of termination and are you having difficulties finding a replacement property? Is the rental property to be renovated? What are the relevant interfaces between basic fit-out and tenant fit-out, especially in terms of shell leasing? We also help you with double and triple net rental contracts.
Commercial and residential rental, shell leasing.
Rent and termination protection proceedings.
Tenancy transactions, sale and lease back.
Defects in rental properties and emission protection proceedings.
Agricultural lease law.
Construction, planning and environmental law
Does the planning authority refuse to approve your construction project? Has a neighbour appealed against it? Can your construction project only be realised as part of a special-use plan? Is it opposed by a preservation order? Or does a neighbour’s construction project show no consideration for the area and violate planning regulations? Is your property to be claimed for road construction? Is a public construction site causing months of noise and disturbance? We support you as property owner, neighbour and administrative authority in all areas of public spatial planning and construction law.
Construction and environmental law
Construction provisions under public law, environmental legislation.
Property use, requirements on buildings and plants.
Planning procedures, collection and defence of construction complains and objections.
Noise protection, water protection and soil protection law.
Construction provisions under private law, trees and plants.
Planning law
Spatial planning law, planning guidelines and usage planning, construction and zone regulations.
Support with use, design and district planning as well as site developments.
Law on the protection of listed buildings.
Tax law, expropriation and state liability law
Charges for real estate projects.
Compensation claims for material and formal expropriations.
State and civil servant liability.
Procurement law
Submission and procurement law.
Public procurement.