Here you will find all posts on Belgian real estate and environmental law, as well as estate tax returns for Flanders.
Anyone buying property in areas subject to planning restrictions risks committing an offence by maintaining building violations and illegal structures.
The year 2026 is not a year of ‘business as usual’ for the Flemish real estate market. As an investor, developer or commercial property owner, you have probably already
In Flemish environmental law, there is regular discussion about the legal force of subdivision regulations older than 15 years. Impact for practice?
As an owner, developer or investor in Flemish real estate, you know better than anyone else: a permit process is a minefield of procedures. Nothing is more frustrating than
As an investor, developer or owner in Flanders, you know that the permit procedure for (re)building plans often feels like a maze. Keeping up with the rules around
Adding to an existing house? In Flanders, this is subject to a strict legal framework to combat spatial clutter.
Zoning Home Buying or Rebuilding: the rules and possibilities in Flanders. You are not allowed to do just any work.
Regularising a construction offence is the process of obtaining a permit for illegal constructions or changes of function in the past.
Filing an appeal against an environmental permit makes sense and is often necessary to safeguard your interests as a property owner.
Local policy visions are playing an increasingly dominant role in the assessment of permit applications in Flanders. In practice, we see that municipalities often apply the concrete ban (construction shift)
In this article, we discuss Belgian capital gains tax and the consequences of the exit tax when emigrating to Spain.
An exit tax is expected to be introduced in Belgium from 1 January 2026. How will this affect emigrating Belgians to Spain?
