Buying property - Step 3

When you buy property in the Netherlands, the purchase will in most cases relate to one of the two types described below:
1. The purchase of a house, registered independently as a whole at the land registry.
2. The purchase of an apartment right, registered as such at the land registry and managed by the board of an Owners' Association. An apartment right consists of part of a whole apartment building. You will often encounter this situation in Amsterdam and The Hague, for instance.

You have a statutory right to cancel the contract of sale within three days of signing it, without giving reasons. A civil-law notary is always involved in the purchase and sale of  property. 
The property buyer is entitled to appoint the civil-law notary of his or her choice.

Buying a home and the accompanying costs >>

As a rule of thumb, the buyer's costs usually amount to around 10% of the purchase price for the immovable property. That amount will generally be lower in practice if Expat Mortgages' partners are used because of the agreements on rates with civil-law notary firms, estate agents and surveyors. The most important factor affecting the accompanying costs, the transfer tax, is unfortunately beyond our control.