Commercial tenancy law 2025/2026 for real estate professionals

Optimized contract law and negotiation strategies

• Written form - / text requirements, renting from the drawing board, supplementary issues, representation when concluding contracts.
• Effective inclusion of attachments to the lease agreement, remedies for lack of written form/text form.

Form rental agreements

• including the transparency requirement and its consequences, general contract terms vs. individual agreements, surprising clauses, extension, supplement and amendment agreements.

Exclusions of liability and protection against competition

• including warranty liability, delayed start of rental, product range restrictions.

Enforce rent adjustments with legal certainty

• including the requirements of the Price Clause Act.

Operating costs

• including preclusive periods for commercial leases, effective allocation of administrative costs.

Maintenance and repair costs

• including effective passing on of costs to the tenant.

Defects in the rented property

• including excessive heating of the leased property, construction noise from the neighboring property, lack of official permits, area calculations, choice of area scale (gif/DIN 272), special features when renting retail space, condition of the leased property upon return, tenant's duty to operate and transfer use.

Termination rights

• including changes to the purpose of use, enforcement and formulation of special termination rights, termination agreements, withdrawal of use, subletting, disruption of profit/sales expectations, special termination rights.

Action for eviction and forced eviction

• including debt collection, enforcement options against tenants and third parties, cost-effective "Berlin model", supply freeze.