With the collaboration of our Firms, we have summarized the status and different options regarding Rebus Sic Stantibus.

Landlords are receiving a deluge of requests to provide rent relief to commercial tenants whose operations have either been closed or substantially restricted as a result of state and local governments’ COVID-19 stay-at-home orders and related restrictions.

Reading this judgment of the Court of Rome (section V of 04/05/2020, n. 6847) one touches with one's hand an example of avoidable quarrel between co-owners in condominiums, a phenomenon that, according to a reliable statistic, has reached considerable proportions,

On May 26, 2020, the New York City Council passed two laws, intended to provide relief to certain commercial tenants during the COVID-19 pandemic. This advisory summarizes these laws, their implications, and their potential vulnerability to legal challenge.

The spread of the covid-19 virus forced the French authorities to take strict containment measures and order the closure of certain professional establishments, which caused serious economic hardship for these tenants.

Real estate market, one of the biggest drivers of the Portuguese economy and responsible for success, now faces a difficult future. At national level and certainly also at international level.

Given the current situation of the COVID-19 pandemic and taking into account that it is this March, most commercial companies have to prepare the annual accounts for the fiscal year closed on December 31, 2019.

Organized by Texere Advisors and Algebra, the event brought together brands that have successfully expanded in Asia and experts from the Asian retail landscape, to share experiences, know-how, best practices, and outline the critical success factors of operating in Asia.

With effect from January 1, 2020, sales between intra-EU companies will have new rules. In the context of intra-community operations, intra-community transfers are non-taxable transactions as VAT is applied to the system of "destined taxation" in the country of the EU country of destination of goods.

As retail leasing continues to evolve, real estate investment trust (REIT) landlords, retail tenants and the business / advisory teams on both sides will want to ensure that REIT issues are surfaced and negotiated before the lease is signed

With the new law 1943 of 2018 in article 43, the private pacts for setting lower prices than the real and commercial value as well as the cash payments in the acts of sale of real estate are put on hold.

In the past 12 months, house prices in Lisbon grew 20,4% and the growth is not expected to slow down by the end of this year. Quite the opposite. 

Retail follows rooftops. Few real estate adages are more axiomatic. Increasingly, however, the reverse is becoming true, and rooftops, or residential uses, are cozying up to retail.