CONSTRUCTION LAW AND REAL ESTATE
Our experienced team of lawyers provides advice on construction law to private individuals, municipal authorities, administrations, contractors and subcontractors, property developers, project developers, building owners, engineers, architects, estimators, engineering firms and insurers.
CONSTRUCTION LAW IN ALL AREAS
Private or public? Business or private? We assist you with:
- Building contracts
- Architects' agreements
- Expropriations or contestation of expropriations
- Provision of ownership and transfer of ownership
- Occupation for the benefit of a third party
- Environmental permit
SPECIALISTS IN LIABILITY AND LITIGATION RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
Contractors and architects have big responsibility and things can go seriously wrong during a construction phase. Our office can assist you with:
- Damage cases
- Handling liabilities in construction matters on behalf of a client or contractor (ten-year liability, visible and invisible defects, settlements on additional and negative works, delayed deliveries, proceedings of neighbours, construction damage, etc.)
- Assistance to architects in professional liability proceedings, ten-year liability, claims for compensation and assistance with appraisals, fee disputes, mandatory insurance
- Negotiation of compensation in the event of a loss
- Amicable and judicial appraisals
- Application of the Breyne Act concerning the acquisition of real estate
Our experienced team of lawyers provides advice on construction law to private individuals, municipal authorities, administrations, contractors and subcontractors, property developers, project developers, building owners, engineers, architects, estimators, engineering firms and insurers.
OWNERSHIP AND TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP
Our lawyer can advise you on the following types of transfer or usage of properties:
- Usufruct, (management of) co-ownership, right of superficies, lease
- Real estate leasing
- Expropriation (administrative law), opposition to expropriation, contestation of expropriation compensation
- Commercial law and residential leases
- Purchase or sale of real estate
- Deferred transfer of ownership and reciprocal purchase, promise to sell real estate, including for private individuals, hire purchase
MEDIATION AS A PRAGMATIC MEANS OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION
We strongly believe in the usefulness of mediation as a way to solve conflicts. In the event of a conflict, we will assess with you the best form of conflict resolution for your situation: court proceedings or mediation.
Mediation makes it possible to solve conflicts amicably outside the courts.
Even in disputes where no mediator has been appointed by the Court of Commerce, our mediators often succeed in solving conflicts between their clients and other parties by applying mediation techniques.
Our colleaguesLieve Dehaese and Guido Quanten have followed training as mediators in both civil law and business law.
