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Court rejects Flemish property sale restrictions

By Nathalie Vandystadt | 08 May 2013

The ‘Wooncode’ (also known as ‘wonen in eigen streek’, living in one’s own region in Dutch), is on its way out. In plainer terms, at issue is a Flemish decree that has forced, since 2009, real estate buyers in certain Flemish communes to prove that there exists a “sufficient...

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