by Floris van Kuijeren | 12 Jan 2023 | Relocation consultant
If you rent a property and disagree with the landlord, you can seek help from the Rent Commission. This will generally cost you only approx. €25 in fees and can prove to be incredibly annoying to the landlord. However, a landlord can also object to the Rent Commission...
by Floris van Kuijeren | 30 Jun 2022 | Rent out
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...
by Floris van Kuijeren | 30 Jun 2022 | Relocation consultant, Rent out
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....
by Floris van Kuijeren | 30 Jun 2022 | Relocation consultant, Rent out
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...
by Floris van Kuijeren | 30 Jun 2022 | Relocation consultant, Rent out
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...
