– How property buyers can escape over-indebtedness after a bad investment -. Selling overpriced real estate for retirement has been a tradition for decades. For the vast majority of buyers, it was the first and last property in their lives. The idea of calling in an independent expert did not occur to the purchasers […]
How do banks and insurance companies finance usuriously overpriced real estate? Scrap real estate is a topic for up to more than two million affected investors. The Investors’ Council says: “Only invest in investments that you understand yourself”. This applies to the timing of investments and the ongoing monitoring of capital investments. More often, experts […]
Deception of investors: The real estate as a supposedly safe investment The deception of investors in the real estate segment is unfortunately common practice. Real estate investors are often deceived by false or misleading information. For example, it is not uncommon for sample invoices to lack important information for calculating returns, such as any costs […]
“Under communism, banks are nationalized and then go bust, under capitalism, banks go bust and then are nationalized.”(Christine Lagarde) First German subprime crisis due to junk real estate and interest rate bets Since the end of the 1980s, not only the legal predecessor group of Hypo Real Estate Holding AG (HRE) has been piling up […]
Time and again, tax advisors and lawyers try their hand at “investment advice” – occasionally not only for a fee but also for commission if the investment is successful. Conversely, insurance companies (e.g. when setting up a company pension scheme) and banks (e.g. for financial advice and succession planning) are increasingly offering the customer a […]
BGH ruling confirms liability of banks and building societies A new ruling of the Federal Court of Justice (BGH ruling of 29.06.2010, Ref. XI ZR 104/08) obliges banks and building societies to provide unsolicited information to the borrower if a fraudulent deception of the buyer about the amount of the brokerage commission is apparent. If […]
Banks liable for structural sales victims of the building society trap BGH ruling confirms liability of banks and building societies A new decision of the Federal Court of Justice (BGH ruling of 29.06.2010, Ref. XI ZR 104/08) obliges banks and building societies to provide unsolicited information to the borrower if a fraudulent deception of […]
Numerous tax saving models of the 90’s and also 80’s are cause of judicial disputes. The investors were promised at that time, a very good capital investment, which should make high profit possible in some years by a resale. Tax savings and rental income should nearly cover the cost of interest and principal, and the […]
What you always wanted to know about the ?sex & crime? of the industry? Filing of annual reports Filing of annual reports with the registry court is an obligation, especially for corporations. European law requires this. The German legislator shied away from the work of implementation and monitoring: immediate information is hardly available from the […]
The Haustürwiderrufsgesetz offers the possibility to the person concerned still after years to separate from unprofitable investments. This frees up liquidity that can then be invested more sensibly. The applicability of the doorstep-selling revocation statute requires that the situation be a doorstep situation. This is understood to mean, -an unsolicited visit to a private […]
