We have finally reached the end of 2020, a very complicated year for the global real estate market.

During this diffocult year, the Real Estate group of The Law Firm Network (LFN) has kept close contact through regular online gatherings and has published four issues of its legal magazine TRENDS.

The main aim of TRENDS is to offer an overview of the most interesting and “hot” topics in the real estate market, as well as an update on newly enacted (emergency) legislation affecting this market around the world.

In this issue of the magazine, we shall cover the following subjects: the Italian real estate market with a possible
outlook on 2021; the future of the office market in the UK; investment and leverage in the UK hospitality sector; new COVID-19 legislature affecting tenants in Ireland; foreign investment and ownership in the Korean real estate market; the latest amendments to the Karnataka land reforms in India; an overview of the notional taxation of real estate that is to be implemented in Denmark; and the latest updates from Germany on the commercial tenant rental situation.

I hope you will find our articles interesting and useful.

I also take this occasion to extend to you my best wishes for the upcoming Holiday Season.

Enjoy the reading!