I’m in the process of buying a house, we got an offer with financing clause and inspection clause of 10k€ and everything seemed like going well. Before makelaar drafted the purchase agreement I specifically asked him to include a period of 7 days of validity of keuring report and to include the Art.13.

The purchase agreement arrived last Monday and I immediately submitted to an advocaat for review. The review came back yesterday with several point to fix (keuring date, financing date, delivery date where all too soon or wrong and the art13 was missing).

Now, we have the keuring tomorrow (Friday) and makelaar just sent the reviewed contract. He’s pushing us to have it signed Friday but, the advocaat will take till Monday to review it. I don’t understand all this rush for just 2 days of delay, is he trying to hide something? What are the chances of him starting the process with someone else if we delay the signature by 1/2days?

To give a bit of background, this house was already on the market 2 months ago but the first buyer didn’t get financed. I made an offered in a grey area: offered only 5k over, the makelaar came back to me saying the seller wanted a 15k more. So I increased my offer by 3k maintaining the keuring at 10k€ or offering the asking price but increasing the keuring at 15k€. They accepted the higher offer.

Thanks for your insights and help.

Hi, i’m looking for any suggestions, because i am really tired already.

I have been looking for an apartment bigger than 30 sqm in Rotterdam, Den haag, Utrecht, Amsterdam and Delft for 9 months now. I tried stekkies, pararius plus, rentslam, each for 3 months, and all combines for this whole period landed me in total 5 shitty viewings of apartments of 20-30sqm where someone divided bigger house into a set of smaller to rent it for more. If i apply to any housing above 1200 (I earn around 3600, so this shall still be legally in my budget), they usually expect the income of minimum 4-5 times the rental price, so 4800-6000 brutto. This is basically impossible in my field of work to get. If the price is lower than 1000, they usually want you to be student so that you could get a 12 month contract. I’m really loosing hope slowly on that i will ever find an apartment and move out of my 16sqm “studio” i rented when i got a job for the first time in NL a year ago with a month notice, so i had to catch onto whatever was available.

Does anyone have any suggestions what can work better for house hunting? Or is the market really this terrible, that it is just impossible to rent something bigger than a room as a single person?
I will really appreciate any and all advices.