Real Estate Law


  • Since 1997 fiduciary settlement (drafting of contract, deletion of encumbrances, funding of purchase and registration in the land register) of purchase agreements for flats, houses, properties and tenement buildings; currently 200 to 300 transactions per year
  • On-going handling of property development projects as drafter of agreement and fiduciary agent
  • Regular creation of freehold titles
  • Change of existing home ownership (in particular pooling of flats and conversions of lofts)
  • Legal design of real-estate projects from acquisition to realisation (sale and rent) • Representation of property developers - legal due diligence, legal and financial advice, securing financing
  • Representation in court to enforce broker commissions
  • Sale of hotel suites as freehold apartments, drafting of all required contracts (purchase agreements, home ownership agreements, servitude agreements, operating agreements with the hotel), legal and organisational counselling for projects, acceptance of trusteeships, management of property development projects under the relevant legal provisions, adjustment of project to statutory land-transfer requirements
  • Representation of buyers in the enforcement of their rights of rescission for non-consensual construction (loft conversion, one-family home)
  • Representation in zoning proceedings for dedicating the property as building land
  • Permanent representation vis-à-vis the land transfer authorities
  • Representation of property owners in boundary disputes
  • Transfer and collateralization of buildings on third-party land
  • Regular transfer of real property in the course of asset transfer, securing the rights of the transferring generation, representation in court and out of court to enforce claims for refunds on account of incorrect assessment of land transfer tax, property yield tax and charges