Until final adoption, the Tenancy Law Reform 2013 was politically and legally controversial. After an excessively long legislative procedure, it became binding law in Germany on 1 May 2013. Only the regulations concerning the contracting for energy and heat supply came into effect on 1 July 2013.

Please find an overview of the new regulations in our latest article, published in Deutscher AnwaltSpiegel, issue 14/2013.