Tenants who are given immediate (extraordinary) notice of termination due to rent arrears can usually still undo this. To do so, they must pay the rent arrears within two months. This practice is known as grace period payment. However, the grace period payment does not apply if the tenants are given a notice of termination without notice as well as a...

If apartment owners would like to decorate their balcony with fairy lights during the Christmas season, they should note that this is common property and take a look at the community rules in advance. On it the consumer protection federation living in the property (WiE) points out. If the fairy lights only shine intermittently, this is usually considered "normal use"...

35 students, two staff members and Dr. Carsten Lausberg, Professor of Real Estate Management at Nürtingen-Geislingen University of Applied Sciences (HfWU), have published a study on "The Effectiveness of Location Analysis Systems". These provide information on real estate locations. They can help those responsible from the real estate industry in making a...

The German Chamber of Engineers (BIngK) regrets the end of new construction funding for the Efficient House 55 standard and calls for a postponement of the funding freeze. New funding for the Effizienzhaus 55 standard will be discontinued on February 1, 2022. After that, only other building renovations as well as efficiency house levels will be subsidized, for example the "Effizienzhaus 40" level. The reason for this, according to...

The Haus & Grund Rheinland Westfalen association advises owners who want to renovate their house to get expert advice in advance and have an individual renovation roadmap drawn up. Among other things, this can help avoid bad investments. According to the association, special software is used to create the renovation roadmap. The owners then receive a...

Development fees may not be levied for an unlimited period of time. This was decided by the Federal Constitutional Court. In the case in question, a landowner who owns several plots of land in Rhineland-Palatinate had filed a lawsuit. Among other things, the road bordering his properties had been developed in 1985/1986 and made accessible to public traffic as a municipal road in 2007....

All, which would like to decorate before Christmas still fast their at home, find appropriate decoration Tipps on the portal schoener-wohnen.de. With the Christmas decoration owners and tenants do not have to provide equal whole areas with Weihnachtsschmuck. Instead it is sufficient for example also to set a sideboard accordingly in scene. Among other things, pine cones,...

A business survey conducted by the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK) has revealed that companies fear the consequences of higher electricity and gas prices. Almost half (46 percent) of the 600 companies surveyed fear a loss of competitiveness in Germany as a business location. In addition, the companies also fear that they will...

The Association of Private Building Owners (VPB) criticizes the fact that there are still considerable deficits in the awareness of consumer rights in connection with turnkey construction. In its third study on construction contract law, entitled "The new construction contract law - turnkey construction for consumer builders - study on implementation in the period 2020", the VPB found that...

How can the block development of Hamburg's Speicherstadt be supplied with C02-neutral energy by 2040? HHLA Real Estate is investigating this question together with several project partners. Together, they are investigating, among other things, how the energy required to operate the property can be generated, stored and used in the building itself. A particular challenge is posed by the protection of historical monuments....