Property law

From the rollercoaster of development projects to disputes with tenants or landlords (or with the neighbours). Behind the bricks of what has been built, or is still to be built, sits a dense set of rules that all bear on one another. Tenancy law, planning law, the law on neighbouring land and nuisance, and (construction) contract law, for example, with that last one resting on the rules for contracting for work (article 7:750 and following of the Dutch Civil Code, the Burgerlijk Wetboek) and in practice on standard terms such as the UAV 2012 and the UAV-GC 2005. How much nuisance you have to put up with from next door, and when that nuisance becomes unlawful, is set out in the law on neighbouring land (Book 5 of the Civil Code, article 5:37).

The interests are considerable. The work is demanding, and sometimes the legal battle simply has to be fought: over a permit, an exemption, a completion, over recovering unpaid rent or getting out from under a landlord who fails to perform. Or because the dream property turns out to have defects and the question becomes whether it answers to what you were entitled to expect (article 7:17). For that permit or exemption you look to the Omgevingswet, the act that since 1 January 2024 bundles the rules on permits and land use into one and replaced the Wet ruimtelijke ordening and the Wabo. David knows his way around the rules behind the bricks and helps quickly and realistically.