Since November 1, Brussels landlords who rent accommodation with a short-term lease (less than three years) can no longer increase the rent between two tenants, excluding legal indexation, the newspaper L’Echo reported on Saturday.
This prohibition, provided for in the new “lease” ordinance, applies in the event of early termination or upon expiry, and for all possible subsequent short-term contracts for a period of nine years. To monitor compliance with this ban, the lessor must indicate several pieces of information in the short-term lease, including the type of previous lease as well as the rent applied to the last tenant, explains L’Echo.
Thus, the Brussels Region ensures that rents for short-term leases will not increase faster than those for long-term leases, which can only change based on indexation.
Before this ordinance came into force, the ban on increasing the rent already existed in the event of waiver given by the lessor, L’Echo further recalls.
According to Federia, the Federation of Real Estate Agents, short-term leases represent more than 90% of the Brussels rental market.
The Brussels ordinance provides for other new features, since November 1, on several aspects linked to the lease (rental guarantee, charges, insurance, inventory, pets, energy-saving works, reduction in property tax, maintenance costs). rehousing or even expulsion without enforceable title).
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