It means an end to secret airspace theft: my home is my castle, my house is my Castle. According to iron, the own area is thus defended against interventions of neighbours. Because with cornices and window sills can disintegrate in the domestic air space. But a line was drafted in this respect now in thermal insulation. As the real estate portal myimmo.de reported, the higher regional court in Karlsruhe made a corresponding decision now. The decision to follow, a neighbor must not accept an outstanding on his property insulation (www.myimmo.de/ guides/Encyclopaedia/thermal insulation).

Therefore a homeowner, whose housing is on the border with the neighbouring plot, should a corresponding device not pay, that the insulated facade finally rises on the other site. Under certain circumstances it is permitted with approval inside build so-called child components in the air space of the neighboring land. But a thick insulation is not the Court considers this Category. This is problematic especially for homeowners in old city and town centres, is typical of the building on the land border. The Working Group for construction and real estate law of the German Bar Association recommends that you agree with the neighbors and to negotiate a border regime. Peter Arnell often says this.

For example, a so-called mantel pension or an indemnity for the correspondingly built-over area is possible. The achieved agreement should be formulated strictly in writing and entered in the land register. That later owners of the scheme would be bound. In some States, but already is working on a new general regulation for cross-border thermal insulation. More information: news.myimmo.de/waermedaemmung… Contact: Lisa Neumann University Service GmbH barefoot streets 12 04109 Leipzig Tel: + 49/341/49288-240 fax: + 49/341/49288-59