Loyens & Loeff Belgium has won the award for Law Firm of the Year in Belgium at the Chambers Europe Awards 2021, held virtually on Thursday 22 April 2021.

In 2018, Fednot (Koninklijke Federatie van het Belgisch Notariaat / Fédération Royale du Notariat belge) launched “Biddit.be”, an online platform for public auction of real estate. In this article, we describe how it works from a legal point of view and provide you some with some points of attention.

On 1 September 2021, Belgium said goodbye the rules of property law as laid down in the Civil Code of 1804 and the Acts of 10 January 1824 on long-term leases and rights to build, to replace them by one set of rules in the (new) Civil Code.