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STJ defines new thesis on the ITBI calculation basis
Decision of the STJ removes the use of amounts arbitrated by the municipalities to collect the ITBI, but it is still worth evaluating appeal filed by the municipality of São Paulo.
The new Legal Framework for Guarantees and the promotion of the Real Estate market
Bill of Law 4,188/21 brings changes that promise to provide lower interest rates and greater credit for investments. Measures also benefit financial institutions with reduced warranty management costs.
Extended to 2022 the deadline for the revision of the Strategic Master Plan of São Paulo
The adjustments to be proposed should change the mechanisms that have not produced the expected effects and consider the impacts of the covid-19 pandemic.
Agribusiness funding: regulation of the Green CPR
Credit security used by rural producers encourages environmental preservation in rural areas and promotes sustainable practices.
STJ welcomes action of usucapião of private property without real estate registration
Decision brings legal solution to recurrent case and confirms that it is feasible to regularize socially and economically vulnerable areas.
Attachment of family property with large value rekindles debate on limits of protection of the concept
São Paulo Courts authorizes the attachment of a BRL 24 million house, ruling that such an expensive property is not necessary to maintain a dignified life and the existential minimum for the debtor’s needs, as provided for in Law No. 8,009/90.
The rise of the igp-m and the lease relations
Traditionally used to readjust lease agreements, index has been questioned as a parameter on several fronts, but the absence of a consolidated legal and legislative position has led renters and lessors to negotiate alternatives.
Unconstitutionality of the collection of associative fee in closed allotments prior to Law 13.465/17 and whose owner is not associated
Collection is valid only for members or when the obligation to pay the fee has been recorded on the allotment registration prior to the acquisition of the lot.
Co-owner may not oppose auction of real property due to attachment of debtor party, decides STJ
Court guarantees creditor’s right, but gives co-owner of unsecured portion of property preference in acquiring entirety of the property or right to be compensated for the value of the judicial appraisal proportional to his share. Decision emphasizes the need to conduct rigorous due diligence for the acquisition of real estate.
Reurb as an instrument of social transformation and opportunity to operate in the real estate market
Fatima Tadea Rombola Fonseca, Vagner Araujo and Luiza Indio Published in 2017, Law No.
Municipality of Rio de Janeiro establishes new conditions for property owners to submit Annual Register Data Statement (DeCAD)
Decision of the Municipal Secretariat of Finance of Rio de Janeiro creates another tax instrumental burden for the taxpayer from Rio de Janeiro, who is now responsible for self-declaring the information necessary for calculating the IPTU.
Surface rights and assignment of use as alternative structures to deal with restrictions on the acquisition of rural properties by foreigners in Brazil
In order to provide security to foreign investors and to the operations maintained by them in Brazil, it is essential to carry out planning and a prior study of possible legal alternatives based on an analysis of which structures best suit the development of the activities intended.