The Dutch Urban Ground Lease: In fatal crisis or a bright future?

The Dutch Urban Ground Lease: In fatal crisis or a bright future?

Ploeger, H.D.
De Wolff, H.W.

Architecture and The Built Environment

Urbanism

2014-12-31

Once abolished by the French, being a product of feudalism, reintroduced by the Dutch after the downfall of Napoleon’s empire. Heralded by both liberals and socialists after 1900 as a tool for governments to prevent land speculation and to implement spatial policies. A century later despised by many, considered to be a governmental cash cow. The ground lease (or right of emphyteusis) of land, was subject of strong debate in the past and is likely to remain so. In the view of many, lessees should have the right to become owner. However what is really the meaning of ‘ownership’ of land, so highly valued, both by the early nineteenth-century bourgeois society in France and Dutch citizens in the twenty-first century? Is ground lease really an obsolete legal concept? Or does a bright future dawns as ground lease provides an instrument to redeem a logging land market after the financial crisis.

leashold
housing
property rights

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c43d1911-06c2-4c61-bbc3-50b7bf4f142a

AESOP

Proceedings AESOP 2014: Annual Conference "From control to co-evolution", Utrecht/Delft, The Netherlands, 9-12 July 2014

Institutional Repository

conference paper

(c) 2014 Ploeger, H., De Wolff, H.