In the current economic climate a bank guarantee for stakeholders in construction projects can be a useful instrument to obtain additional (financial) security. For instance, a client or contractor ca...
Time, quality and costs are three key elements of a construction project. In an ideal world a project is completed on time, within budget and in a high-quality manner. But unfortunately reality shows ...
The Flemish Government in its September Declaration of 27 December 2021 announced it would reduce the registration tax for family homes from 6% to 3%. By contrast, the purchase of a second residence, ...
The Flemish Government in its September Declaration of 27 September 2021 announced it would reduce the registration tax for family homes from 6% to 3%. By contrast, the purchase of a second residence,...
The government will most likely abolish the personal income tax cut for loans for second residences. As a consequence, owners may see a moderate increase in the costs of a second residence. This might...
A year and a half after the publication of Book 3 of the new Civil Code, the part dealing with property law came into force on 1 September 2021. That completes this part of the modernisation of civil ...
The Flemish authorities have recently expanded the list of exceptions to the mandatory intervention of an architect. This article is available in Dutch and French....
The legislator has been working for some time on an overall reform and modernisation of Belgian civil law. This will be reflected in a new Civil Code, two books of which have already been completed. O...
In building practice the suspension of the execution of an obligation (primarily the execution of works, payment of a price) is a common measure in case of failure on the part of the other party. Obvi...
With its ruling no. 28/2021 of 25 February 2021, the Constitutional Court ruled on the appeal for (partial) annulment of the Peeters Act II. An extract from this ruling was published in the Belgian Of...
If a debtor causes damage to the creditor's property and performance or reparation in kind does not satisfy the creditor, the debtor will be obliged to compensate the creditor in cash (performance in ...
Judgment of 22 January 2021(C.19.0303.N) This article is available in Dutch and French. For more information you can contact our team....