Real estate law

We advise and assist our clients at all stages of their building project. We provide assistance both in the pre-litigation phase and in the context of legal proceedings. We assist individuals as well as the different stakeholders in the building project (“amateur” or professional project owners, architects, engineers, building contractors, subcontractors,…).

Our department is particularly active in the following fields:

• Negotiating and drafting contracts with architects ;
• Negotiation and drafting of building contracts ;
• Negotiation and drafting of subcontracts agreements ;
• Managing defects arising in the building process ;
• Claims after acceptance of work ;
• Building contractors abandoning the building site ;
• Assisting clients with regard to ex officio action or the replacement of the deficient builder ;
• Decennial liability insurance ;
• Minor hidden defects ;
• Amicable or judicial expert investigations ;
• Liability of the parties involved in the building project ;
• Access to the profession ;
• Claims management (fire ; water damage) ;
• Claims management (fire ; water damage) ;
• Recourse against / by insurers (contractors’ All Risks Insurance (CAR Insurance), professional liability, decennial liability insurance, project owner ‘s blanket insurance) ;
• ...

We advise and assist our clients at all stages of their life as (co)-owners. We provide assistance both in the pre-litigation phase and in the context of legal proceedings. We assist co-owners, property managers as well as owners facing neighbourhood problems.

Our department is particularly active in the following fields:

• Representing and attending general meetings of co-owners ;
• Recovering unpaid condominium fees ;
• Provisional acceptance of buildings ;
• Recourse against property developers ;
• Nuisances caused by co-owners and occupants;
• Drafting and ensuring compliance with co-ownership regultations ;
• Reviewing co-ownership regulations ;
• Appealing against decisions taken and approved at the general meeting of co-owners ;
• Dealing with neighbourhood problems ;
• Joint ownership (drafting agreements ; litigation) ;
• Easement (dispute ; recognition ; drafting agreements) ;
• ...

We advise and assist our clients at all stages of their real estate projects. We intervene both in the pre-litigation phase and in the context of legal proceedings. We act for private individuals, real estate companies or those active in the real estate sector to help them complete their projects or deal with the difficulties they encounter.

Our department is particularly active in the following fields:

• Negotiation of real estate sales agreements ;
• Assisting clients with the termination of sales agreements ;
• Assisting clients with the execution of the deed of sale ;
• Sale of real estate having hidden defects ;
• Conditions precedent in sales agreements ;
• Life annuity sales ;
• Sale of real estate companies ;
• Negotiations with property developers ;
• ....

We advise, assist and defend our clients with regard to any issue relating to property ownership rights :

• statute of limitations and acquisition of title by long standing possession,
• right of accession,
• possessory actions,
• encroachments,
• boundary marking,…

We also assist our clients with any issue relating to the subdivision of ownership rights :

• life interest / bare-ownership,
• rights of "superficie"
• long term leases,
• waiver of the right of accession ;
• end of undivided ownership and management of shares distribution ;
• .....

We advise, assist and defend our clients whose land is encumbered with, or benefits from, an easement or the like:

• Right of way,
• Easement for drainage purposes,
• Distance between plantings and buildings,
• Shared walls,
• ...

We advise, assist and defend our clients who suffer damages caused by their neighbours, whether they are individuals or public companies:

• Liability for abnormal neighbourhood disturbances (noise, odours, loss of sunlight, loss of privacy, loss of customers, etc.),
• Compliance with urban and environmental standards,
• Compliance with urban planning requirements

• Negotiating and drafting principal place of residence lease agreements;
• Negotiating and drafting commercial lease agreements;
• Negotiating and drafting lease agreements;
• Negotiating and drafting business transfer agreements ;
• Assisting clients with the recovery of unpaid rents;
• Assisting clients with the termination of lease agreements ;
• Commercial lease renewal ;
• Disputes relating to tenancy ;

- pre-emptive rights ;

- Compulsory purchase in Brussels, Wallonia and Flanders

- Town planning and environmental law :

• Assisting clients in obtaining or challenging planning permits ;
• Challenging infringements of urban planning rules (and defending clients who are charged with having committed a criminal offence)