by admin | Feb 24, 2020 | Human Rights, Landlords, Lease, Property, Rent
The Maltese Constitutional Court in its decision of the 19th of February 2020 has consolidated the reasoning recently embraced by the Maltese Superior Courts in the context of affording an effective remedy to tenants, who have long time been discriminated against in...
by admin | Jan 15, 2020 | Adjudicating Panel, Landlords, Lease, Property, Rent, Residential
Two Legal Notices have recently been published following the enactment of the Private Residential Leases Act. Legal Notice 354 of 2019 on the Adjudicating Panel for Private Residential Leases Regulations, 2019. The Adjudicating Panel for Private Residential Leases is...
by admin | Jan 7, 2020 | Landlords, Law, Lease, Property, Rent
Private residential leases act enacted The much debated residential lease bill has finally been passed by Parliament through Act XXVIII of 2019. The Private Residential Leases Act addresses current housing realities and aims to protect tenants from abusive practices,...
by admin | Nov 4, 2019 | Landlords, Lease, Property, Rent, Uncategorized
Court of Appeal acknowledges rent laws violation of owners’ right to property and increases compensation A recent decision by the Court of Appeal in Anna Galea et vs L-Avukat Generali u Saint Julians Band Club has awarded further damages to property owners aggrieved...
by admin | Jul 18, 2019 | Landlords, Lease, Property, Rent
The Maltese rent laws have over the years gone through a number of amendments. The liberalisation of the private rentals sector in 1995, following the overly-regulated regime previously in force, allowed the parties the freedom to contract as they wished. With the...
by admin | Jun 26, 2019 | Human Rights, Landlords, Lease, Rent
The Maltese Superior Courts in a momentous socio-legal setting recently took the bull by the horns and confronted a legal hot potato: the landowners’ fundamental right to property. The past seventy years have seen the introduction of laws specifically aimed at...
