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Jeroen van den Hamer practices real estate law, focusing on project and area development as well as real estate transactions. With more than 15 years of experience working in real estate law, Jeroen represents developers and investors, as well as end-users and contractors. He is experienced at overseeing the whole chain of (civil-law) contracts throughout the development process. In addition to development projects, he assists developers and investors in setting up joint ventures. Jeroen advises both buyers and sellers in real estate transactions.

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The rapidly changing retail market has not yet created a new reality. The preference for online shopping and the increasing costs of wages and production continue to threaten the margins of retailers and, indirectly, rent prices. As a result, rent for retail space has been dropping for six consecutive years. Due to the increased costs of wages and production, more bankruptcies may follow the ones we have seen already in the Netherlands, and more retailers may decide to stop operating their shops to minimize losses.

In this blog post, we will focus on the obligation to operate retail space and recent verdicts relating to interoperating retail space contracts.
Continue Reading Obligation to Operate: Retail Contracts in the Netherlands

The topic of ‘shared-housing’ is increasingly becoming of interest for clients who invest in residential real estate portfolios. In short, shared-housing can be described as the use of a residential unit by several people who are using a single room for private use and who share the bathroom and the kitchen (and possibly a living-room) with their co-tenants.

From a legal standpoint, shared-housing defers from letting rooms because of the fact that the landlord does not let out single rooms to each person, but lets out the whole unit to several people under one lease agreement or to one person who is granted the right to sublet single rooms in the unit.
Continue Reading Recent ‘Shared-Housing’ Developments in Amsterdam