Step 1 · The property
What it is, and what is known.
What we do, in detail
Buying and selling, the soil certificate, risk activities, and consultancy.
Program 01 · On our own account
Buying and selling
We buy and sell property for ourselves. That means you are dealing with the owner rather than with an agent acting for someone else, which removes a layer, and it also means the protections that attach to dealing with a registered estate agent do not apply here. We say that rather than let anyone assume otherwise, because assuming it is exactly the kind of mistake that only becomes visible when something has gone wrong.
Step 2 · The checks
Planning, energy, certificates.
Step 3 · The agreement
Only once information is given.
Step 4 · The deed
With the notary instructed.
Step 1 · The request
Made to the authority.
Step 2 · The content
Communicated to the buyer.
Step 3 · The agreement
Concluded only after that.
Step 4 · The deed
In its proper place, last.
Program 02 · Timing is the rule
The soil certificate
A transferor must request the soil certificate and communicate its content to the buyer before the transfer agreement is concluded. The moment that counts is the agreement, not the notarial deed, so having the certificate ready for the notary does not cure a failure to inform beforehand. The remedy is severe: the buyer can seek annulment of the transfer. It undoes the sale rather than penalising it, which is why we treat the sequence as a rule rather than an administrative step.
Program 03 · More before transfer
Risk activities
Where a property houses or has housed an activity classified as a risk activity, additional obligations apply before a transfer can take place, including a preliminary soil investigation. These are the transfers where the temptation to sign first and investigate afterwards is strongest, because the parties are usually keen and the investigation takes time. We do not conclude on that basis. A transfer that has to be unwound later costs everybody more than a delay does now.
Step 1 · The history
What the land has been used for.
Step 2 · The classification
Whether a risk activity applies.
Step 3 · The investigation
Carried out before transfer.
Step 4 · The transfer
Only once it is clear.
Step 1 · The question
As it is actually posed.
Step 2 · The classification
Whether it is reserved.
Step 3 · The referral
To the qualified professional.
Step 4 · The work
Alongside them, not instead.
Program 04 · Not reserved advice
Management consultancy
Management consultancy is not a regulated profession in Belgium, but it cannot stray into the ones that are. We do not prepare accounts or give tax advice, which is reserved to professionals registered with the competent institute. We do not give legal advice or act in proceedings, which belongs to lawyers. We do not give investment advice. Those questions get referred to the right professional rather than answered approximately and confidently.
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