How do other European countries approach tenement management and maintenance? How can tricky owners be forced to pay their share of the costs?
Hear European legal experts answer these questions in our final virtual seminar looking at the law of owners’ associations in apartment buildings around the world.
Learn about the law of apartment ownership in four different countries: Belgium, Poland, Portugal, and Spain. Creating a comprehensive framework to allow owners to work together to maintain their building is pivotal. But what should happen if owners won’t or can’t pay for maintenance or improvements?
These four countries were selected due to the range of interesting techniques used to deal with such issues: removing voting rights from non-paying owners, charging interest and penalties on sums owed, prioritising maintenance debts over existing mortgages - even the ultimate power to force sale of the flat via court process.
What lessons can be learnt regarding which powers should be given to Scottish owners’ associations to recoup costs for non-paying owners?
PRESENTERS:
Professor Sergio Nasarre Aznar teaches Civil Law at the University Rovira y Virgili in Spain. He has served as Director of the UNESCO Housing Chair and as a research consultant working with the European Commission and Amnesty International.
Professor Magda Habdas teaches Private Law at the University of Silesia in Poland. She has worked in multiple housing and property law policy projects at a national and European level.
Professor Sandra Passinhas teaches Civil Law at the University of Coimbra in Portugal. She is Co-Director of the Centre for Consumer Law Studies and researcher for the judicial training project co-funded by the Justice Programme of the European Union.
Professor Vincent Sagaert teaches in the Faculty of Law and Criminology at KU Leuven in Belgium. He coordinates the university’s research unit on civil law and has written extensively on property law issues.
