Suppose you rent out a property above the maximum rent limit while this property is not actually in the free sector. Until when can tenants object to this rent and what are the consequences? First, this: rent protection explained simply To explain this properly,...
The short answer is no, not for incumbent tenants. Suppose your property has 140 rent points and you actually need 145 to get into the free sector. You are afraid that your tenants will object to the rent at the Rent Commission, so you come up with a ruse. You want to...
For independent rental properties in the free sector, for a long time it was custom that you could increase the rent freely (without rules) as a landlord. This has changed as of May 1, 2021. As of May 2021, you are not allowed to increase the rent as much as you want....
It is common to have a lease that does not include anything about an (annual) rent increase. We also often see this happen with houses that are taken over in a rented state. The big question is: can you then still raise the rent and if so by how much? The answer is a...
As of May 1, 2022, the WOZ value will no longer count indefinitely towards the rent point count. As of that date, a maximum of 33% of the total number of points of a property is determined by the WOZ value of the property. We’ll explain this in a super simple...
The initial rental price is the rent at which the lease begins. So “the rent not yet indexed”. Suppose you have a property that has as many as 170 rental points. More than enough points for the free sector. The liberalization threshold in that year is 145...