Real Estate & Project Development
Real estate and project development encompass activities that range from simply drawing and constructing a house, via the renovation and re-lease of existing buildings, to the purchase of raw land and the sale of improved parcels to others. In any event, real estate and project development is a team effort. Assembling a team of professionals to address the environmental, economic, physical and political issues inherent in a complex real estate development project is critical. A developer's success depends on the ability to coordinate the completion of a series of interrelated activities efficiently and at the appropriate time.
Our specialized Real Estate & Project Development team assists in the whole process, from governmental approvals via the drafting and handling of agreements to the final delivery of a project. Where conflicts arise, we deal with them confidentially drawing on our strong generic litigious experience and if need be on our knowledge of the public services.
The development process requires skills of many: architects, environmental consultants, engineers, surveyors and, last but not least, lenders to provide financing; and buyers of the projects involved. We advise many of the aforementioned, with the emphasis on project developers, the coordinators of the activities, converting ideas into real property; financiers, lending the money needed; and (potential) buyers.
Our focused core Real Estate & Project Development team consists of one specialized partner and several associates. They spend the majority of their time on the specific legal framework and the typical issues at hand in this industry.
- A bank in the financing of the Aruba Holiday Inn
- A bank in the financing of the Santa Barbara Hyatt Hotel Project in Curacao
- A hotel in litigation contesting a building permit and against a neighboring hotel regarding unlawful construction works
- A large hotel in a building dispute with its contractor
- Dutch building conglomerate in the purchase of an Aruban and Antillean construction company
- Project developers, associations of owners and landlords in real estate and land- and property lease/rental issues all over the Dutch Caribbean
- The financing of a condominium project in Aruba
- Various litigation regarding construction, zoning and building permit issues all over the Dutch Caribbean
- Seminar civil and fiscal aspects Curaçao Trust for Curacao Real Estate Association
- Real Estate Association's first annual meeting offers structured legal insight
- Judge permits preparatory work for St. Eustatius Terminal expansion
- Judge deals with injunction to prevent oil terminal in ‘Farm’ on St. Eustatius
- “Cinelandia Building unique in Kingdom”
- Bonaire Executive Council has to allow construction condominium complex
