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In real estate finance, a clear trend in loans and credit documentation has emerged. This documentation has steadily become more detailed, extensive and, as a result, increasingly complex. If you would like to complete transactions in a timely and trouble-free manner, without details being overlooked, an experienced attorney is essential.
As a bank, private equity party, private investor, project developer or construction company, you can benefit from Loyens & Loeff’s in-depth knowledge, wealth of experience, fiscal strength, and unique understanding of every aspect of real estate finance.
Sustainability is becoming an increasingly important factor in the decisions of investors, companies, consumers, shareholders and policy and law makers. The broadly supported awareness of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) objectives is reflected in many international voluntary standards as well as in an increasing number of European regulations.
The ECGT Directive introduces a further EU framework on ESG communications aimed at mitigating greenwashing and social washing.
Sustainable finance is about financing both what is already environment-friendly today (green or sustainability-linked finance) and what is transitioning to environment-friendly performance levels over time (Transition Finance).
In the Book 3 "Goods" of the Belgian Civil Code the main goal of the legislator was to better structure, modernise and integrate the law on goods into a single code. Moreover, the new law on goods had to be functional, useful and flexible. Time will show whether the new Book 3 meets these goals. It’s looking promising anyhow.
This article, written by Alexander Vandendries and Christophe Laurent, is a contribution to the Larcier book "Revue de planification patrimoniale belge et internationale".
This Real Estate Update focuses on the new Books 1 and 5 of the new Belgian Civil Code, which will both enter into force on 1 January 2023. We selected almost 20 relevant topics where the new legislation could have an important impact on real estate
