EU law does not preclude capping an estate agency commission at 4% of the sale or rental price, said the Court of Justice of the European Union on Thursday 27 February in a judgment examining a Slovenian law on estate agency services.
However, “that legislation [must] not go beyond what is necessary to attain the objectives which it pursues”, says the Court.
The latter was in response to a request from the Slovenian Constitutional Court concerning the constitutionality of a national...