Real estate

For most people involved, the purchase or sale of a property dwarfs all other transactions in terms of financial significance alone. Substantial amounts of saved assets have to be invested and additional loans taken out. For the seller, too, the property is often the most important part of their own assets.

To ensure that the buyer and seller are properly advised in such an important process and to avoid risks, the involvement of a notary is required. The notary ensures a legally balanced structure and helps to avoid risks, he obtains the documents required for completion and monitors the transfer of ownership to the buyer in the land register.

For example, this prevents the buyer from paying the purchase price without receiving the property. On the other hand, the seller does not lose his property without receiving the purchase price. As a notary, I discuss the objectives with the parties to the contract, inform them of the possible arrangements and, based on this, draw up an appropriate and balanced draft of a purchase agreement.

Real estate purchase agreements can, for example, relate to the acquisition of a building plot, a detached house or apartment building, a condominium or even a heritable building right. The special features of a property affect the structure of a contract. This applies in particular to a so-called developer contract, with which the buyer acquires a plot of land or a share of land in connection with a building - house or apartment - that is still under construction. The builder of this property is the seller.