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Tenants who continue to sublet their apartment without permission after a warning must expect termination without notice. This was decided by the Munich Local Court (AZ 417 C 7060/21). In this case, a tenant had been living in an apartment in Munich-Pasing since 2009. The monthly rent was 800 euros per month. The rental agreement contained the following clause: " Subletting or other...

The Federal Fiscal Court (BFH) has ruled that the property tax owed by the landlord, but contractually passed on to the commercial tenant, is part of the rent. Therefore, according to the BFH, it must be added to the profit for trade tax purposes. In this case, the plaintiff, a GmbH, had rented a business premises from its shareholders. In the rental agreement, it was agreed that the plaintiff...

The lessor of a listed manor house does not have to protect the interests of the lessee in the pre-contractual clarification and relieve him of the contractual risk. Instead, the tenant must examine and decide for himself whether the contract is advantageous for him or not. This is the conclusion reached by the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main (OLG). In the present case, the state leased...

A lawyer in Lehel in Munich sold two apartments belonging to his client with dementia for well below their value, namely to his children. He was sentenced to a suspended sentence of two years for breach of trust by the lay assessor's court of the Munich district court. The verdict is not yet final. The apartments, which are worth 1,100,000 million and 1,300,000 million respectively, were...

The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) has strengthened the pre-emption rights of tenants in a recent ruling (VIII ZR 305/20). In this case, a tenant of a 46.60 square meter unrenovated apartment in an apartment building in Berlin, which the owner divided into condominium units, wanted to exercise her right of first refusal. According to the purchase agreement, she was to pay 163,266.67...

The residents of an apartment building in Ratingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, are worried that an ATM in the building could be blown up. The reason for this is that there are repeated reports in the media about ATMs being blown up. The owner of the apartment building therefore asked the bank to remove the ATM. However, he was already on...

If land is sold that has been in the owner's possession for less than ten years, the profit must normally be taxed. However, if the property is occupied by the owner, the situation is different: In this case, no tax is due on the sale - even if it is a garden house that is illegal to build...

Landlords cannot make claims against the Jobcenter if a basic income support recipient owes them rent. This was recently decided by the Lower Saxony-Bremen Regional Social Court (LSG). In the case in question, an owner rented apartments to recipients of basic income support and, as a precautionary measure, had them agree to the direct payment of rent by the job center.

If a wedding celebration for which a location has already been rented has to be canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, the couple must still pay the room rental fee. This was recently decided by the Federal Court of Justice (BGH). In the case in question, a couple from North Rhine-Westphalia had married in a civil ceremony on December 11, 2018 and had planned a wedding celebration with 70 guests for May 1, 2020. The...

A real estate purchase contract cannot be rescinded without further ado if a crime has been committed in the property and the buyer was unaware of this when signing the contract. This was recently decided by the Coburg Regional Court (Coburg Regional Court, judgment dated 06.10.2020, case reference: 11 O 92/20). In this case, a buyer had purchased a house in 2018. The seller had not told her about the...