
Real Estate
Our Real Estate Practice, led by partner Yves Delacroix, is recognised as a leading practice in Belgium and is regularly involved in major transactions.
Our real estate lawyers have vast expertise and experience in all aspects of property related issues and are very well connected in the real estate market. This enables us to understand our clients’ needs quickly and to offer sound and practical advice.
The Real Estate Practice works seamlessly with the firm’s other practices to provide a complete approach to any real estate matter. Within our firm 25 lawyers dedicate a significant part of their time to real estate matters.

We assist a wide range of clients with property projects and real estate related disputes.
Recent work highlights:
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Assisting the seller and the purchaser respectively in the two largest transactions relating to Belgian retail properties in 2011.
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Assisting a logistics company in the structuring and execution of the early termination of a financial leasing operation relating to a warehouse, followed by a sale and lease back operation with a Belgian REIT.
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Assisting a major retail player to develop a new store and a retail park on an existing retail site next to the City of Mons.
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Assisting one of Belgium's largest real estate investment trusts with the turnkey sale of a landmark office building in the centre of Brussels.
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Assisting a large multinational company in acquiring a long term leasehold interest in a office building to be erected in the centre of Antwerp, and the simultaneous sale of their existing office building in Antwerp.
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Assisting one of the largest real estate groups in Belgium with a complex construction dispute relating to a landmark office building in the centre of Brussels.
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Assisting a number of shopping mall owners with various lease matters including legal disputes relating to lease renewals.
- The Real Estate Law Review, Third Edition - Belgium
- The Real Estate Law Review, Second Edition - Belgium
- The Real Estate Law Review 2012 - Belgium
- Faculté de résiliation triennale du bail commercial au profit du preneur
- Vide locatif dans un centre commercial: cela constitue-t-il un manquement du bailleur à son obligation de garantie?
- Partie consacrée à l'immobilier dans le chapitre belge de l'édition 2011 du Digest of the Commercial Laws of the World
- Commercial Property - Jurisdictional comparisons
Seminars
- Belgian Real Estate: 2019 Significant Developments and 2020 Outlook
- Third Annual Real Estate Seminar: 2017 Significant Developments and 2018 Outlook
- Liedekerke Real Estate Breakfast Seminar 2017
- Real Estate Breakfast Seminar: "Significant developments in 2015 in the real estate sector and outlook for 2016"
- Corporate Seminar "La loi relative aux sociétés immobilières reglementées" - "De wet betreffende de gereglementeerde vastgoedvennootschappen"
- Real Estate Seminar "Charges publiques liées à la détention d’un bien immeuble"
- Real Estate and Retail Seminar "Centres commerciaux et retails parks" - "Winkelcentra en retail parks"
News
- Liedekerke assisted Urbani’s shareholders in the sale of their shares to Vicinity Affordable Housing Fund
- Join our Real Estate team!
- L’impact du Covid-19 sur l’économie belge
- Liedekerke achieves top rankings in Legal 500 EMEA 2020
- Liedekerke successfully assisted the National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance (INAMI/RIZIV) in the divestment of its two office buildings, totalling 30.500 m², and the acquisition of 50% of the Galilee building
- Liedekerke COVID-19 Resource Center
- Liedekerke recognized by Chambers Europe in the 2020 Rankings
- COVID-19 lockdown: regulatory framework in Belgium
- Belgian Real Estate: 2019 Significant Developments and 2020 Outlook
- Julie De Bonnet to attend Real Estate mission in Singapore
- 9 partners at Liedekerke recommended in Best Lawyers in Belgium 10th edition
- Comment le nouveau décret sol va se répercuter sur l'immobilier wallon?
- Liedekerke achieves excellent rankings in the Legal 500 2019
- Yves Delacroix and Alexandre Emond contributed to the Belgian Chapter of Real Estate Review
- Liedekerke recognized by Chambers Europe in the 2019 Rankings
- The Road to Zero. Het emissiehandelssysteem vandaag en tijdens het volgende decennium
- Julie De Bonnet from our Real Estate Practice promoted to Counsel
- Charles Poncelet analyse le nouveau décret wallon relatif à la gestion et l’assainissement des sols dans Square Info
- Belgium Chapter in The Real estate Law Review - Edition 7
- Liedekerke to participate in Immorun 2017
- Real Estate Law Review
- Liedekerke assisting Befimmo in high-value and strategically important real estate deal
- Aurélien Vandeburie et Nicolas Vandamme orateurs à l’Université d’été du Notariat à Spa
- Propriété et domanialité publiques en Belgique
- The Real Estate Law Review, Second edition - Belgium chapter
- Liedekerke elects two new partners in Real Estate and in Energy
‘The entire team is always very kind and enthusiastic. They always deliver as agreed. They have a ‘hands-on’ mentality, and they are proactive‘. ‘Yves Delacroix has an incredible strong knowledge of all real estate matters. He really can make the difference in the negotiations‘.
-- Legal 500 Real Estate and Construction 2020
Clients are "happy about their work," noting that "they are really very efficient."
Others describe them as "a very strong team with good overall knowledge," adding that they are "fantastic partners to work with."
Alexandre Emond assists significant domestic and international clients with real estate transactions. He is praised by clients for being "very business-minded," and having "a very good commercial view and understanding in his way of working.“
Clients enthuse that Yves Delacroix "has an incredibly strong knowledge of all real estate matters," and "can really make the difference in negotiations." His expertise covers a wide range of real estate matters including cross-border transactions, development agreements and lease contracts. Other clients admire him as "a real deal maker," and "one of the most recognised lawyers" in the market.
-- Chambers Europe Real Estate 2020