Real estate sales mistakes – valuation too high, wrong buyers and burnt houses, hardly anyone has experience in selling houses and apartments. Even less, with land, forest land or even agricultural land. Already knew: Annually only about 271,000 real estates are sold in Germany. Hardly anyone has experience in the sale of real estate. Mistakes […]
Eingetragener Kaufmann (e. Kfm.) / Eingetragene Kauffrau (e. Kfr.) / Registered merchants (e. K.) – The registered merchants embody a German legal form variant, which is based on the corporate legal form of the sole proprietorship (EU). This means that it is a company that is founded and managed by a single person and is […]
Dual Activity – Dual activity refers to brokers. The definition is that a broker acts for a seller and a buyer at the same time. The requirement is that the real estate broker be impartial. The real estate broker must also act as a listing broker for both parties or as a listing broker for […]
Easement – An easement is a right over another person’s property, such as real estate. Three types of easements are recorded in the BGB. These rights, which are regulated in law by definition, are the limited personal easement, the easement and the usufruct. The limited personal easement is the right to a property in favour […]
Duty to tolerate – The duty to tolerate is a duty that is anchored in the German Civil Code (BGB) and by definition obliges a property owner to tolerate certain encroachments on his property. For example, if a construction crane swings over a neighbor’s property subject to certain conditions, the property owner is under a […]
Divorce procedure – application, pension rights adjustment and dates… The process of a divorce depends largely on whether it is contested or amicable. Amicable divorces can be final in minutes at the family court, while contested divorces often drag on for months. Find out what things to consider and how to make the divorce go […]
Alimony after divorce – According to the Federal Statistical Office, 153,500 marriages were divorced in Germany. With every divorce, the issue of alimony also arises and becomes an important point in the negotiations. Particularly with common accounts and divided income the question about the financial future stands frequently unclarified in the area. Therefore, the experts […]
Inheritance tax was introduced in its current form in the German Reich as early as 1906. Since then, some things have changed, but the law is still based on the same premises. The most important of these is that inheritance is regarded as an increase in the assets of the heirs and must therefore be […]
