Selling a house in The Hague
Sell your house for the best price in The Hague and surroundings?
Sonar Appartementen has been a household name in the Haaglanden region for over 25 years.
- Specialized as a purchase and sales agent in The Hague, Scheveningen and surroundings
- Maximum reach of your home for sale through optimal website position on the internet
- High customer satisfaction score with the best price/quality ratio
- Fast purchase and sale at the best price
- The sale of your home is customized with us through an optimal marketing strategy
Plan of approach
- Recording of the home
- Placing a conspicuous for sale sign
- Photography of the home
- Creating a digital customer file
- Showing the home on all effective home sites
- Optimal marketing presentation on the internet
- Professional presentation of the home via various social media
- Window presentation
- Administrative and commercial support throughout the entire sales process
- Independent advice on the asking price, yield and sales speed
- Independent advice on the optimal sales process
- Emailing your home to interested parties from a national search database
Viewing your home
- Enthusiastic and expert support of the viewings with potential buyers
- Feedback after each viewing
The negotiations
- Conducting the negotiations
- Feedback and advice
- Settlement of the purchase or sale
The notary and further processing
- Checking the notarial deed and settlement note
- Carrying out an inspection for the transfer of the home
- Supervising and attending notarial transfer
Optional services
- Funda optimization
- Effective advertising in various newspapers
- Open house
- Construction report
- Floor plans/professional photography/3D presentations / 360 degree photography
- NEN 2580 Measurement report
- Facebook campaign with target group determination.
You can contact us without obligation to make an appointment.
Buying or selling a home is not something you do every day. There are certain questions that regularly come up when it comes to selling a home. Below you will find a number of the most frequently asked questions. The questions are provided with clear answers.
1. What documents and information do I need if I want to sell my home?
When selling a home, you need a number of documents and information. These include: • Title deed. • Copy of identification, this applies to all owners of the home. • Completed questionnaire and completed list of movable property that you may want to sell with the home. • If it concerns an apartment, the deed of division, documents from the V.V.E. and the completed V.V.E. questionnaire.
2. What is the energy label and is it mandatory when selling a home?
The energy label has been legally required since 1 January 2008 if you want to sell your home. The label indicates how energy-efficient a home is. This takes into account the degree of insulation, the energy consumption of heating and/or hot water systems and the degree of ventilation. If you agree with the buyer that an energy label is not necessary, you may sell without a label. This agreement will be included in the purchase agreement.
3. Do I need an estate agent if I want to sell my home?
No, it is not mandatory to hire an estate agent when selling a home. If you do not hire an estate agent, it does mean that you will arrange everything yourself that comes with the sale. On the one hand, you will save on estate agent costs, but on the other hand, you may be confronted with a number of disappointing issues:
- Specialized as a purchase and sales agent in The Hague, Scheveningen and surroundings
- Maximum reach of your home for sale through optimal website position on the internet
- High customer satisfaction score with the best price/quality ratio
- Fast purchase and sale at the best price
- The sale of your home is customized with us through an optimal marketing strategy
Plan of approach
- Recording of the home
- Placing a conspicuous for sale sign
- Photography of the home
- Creating a digital customer file
- Showing the home on all effective home sites
- Optimal marketing presentation on the internet
- Professional presentation of the home via various social media
- Window presentation
- Administrative and commercial support throughout the entire sales process
- Independent advice on the asking price, yield and sales speed
- Independent advice on the optimal sales process
- Emailing your home to interested parties from a national search database
Viewing your home
- Enthusiastic and expert support of the viewings with potential buyers
- Feedback after each viewing
The negotiations
- Conducting the negotiations
- Feedback and advice
- Settlement of the purchase or sale
The notary and further processing
- Checking the notarial deed and settlement note
- Carrying out an inspection for the transfer of the home
- Supervising and attending notarial transfer
Optional services
- Funda optimization
- Effective advertising in various newspapers
- Open house
- Construction report
- Floor plans/professional photography/3D presentations / 360 degree photography
- NEN 2580 Measurement report
- Facebook campaign with target group determination.
You can contact us without obligation to make an appointment.
Buying or selling a home is not something you do every day. There are certain questions that regularly come up when it comes to selling a home. Below you will find a number of the most frequently asked questions. The questions are provided with clear answers.
1. What documents and information do I need if I want to sell my home?
When selling a home, you need a number of documents and information. These include: • Title deed. • Copy of identification, this applies to all owners of the home. • Completed questionnaire and completed list of movable property that you may want to sell with the home. • If it concerns an apartment, the deed of division, documents from the V.V.E. and the completed V.V.E. questionnaire.
2. What is the energy label and is it mandatory when selling a home?
The energy label has been legally required since 1 January 2008 if you want to sell your home. The label indicates how energy-efficient a home is. This takes into account the degree of insulation, the energy consumption of heating and/or hot water systems and the degree of ventilation. If you agree with the buyer that an energy label is not necessary, you may sell without a label. This agreement will be included in the purchase agreement.
3. Do I need an estate agent if I want to sell my home?
No, it is not mandatory to hire an estate agent when selling a home. If you do not hire an estate agent, it does mean that you will arrange everything yourself that comes with the sale. On the one hand, you will save on estate agent costs, but on the other hand, you may be confronted with a number of disappointing issues:
- Lack of negotiating experience. Estate agents are experienced negotiators. If you have little or no experience in negotiating, you may lose money. In addition to the final sales price, you must also negotiate the conditions.
- Your home will not be placed on Funda, or at the very bottom. Most home seekers nowadays start their search for a new home on Funda. If you hire an estate agent, your house will be placed on Funda as completely as possible. This will make your home appear higher in the search results. Without an estate agent, your home will not appear on Funda at all or only at the very bottom.
- Uncertainty and disappointments. A signed purchase agreement is a binding document that you cannot simply get rid of. This applies not only to the buyer, but certainly also to you as a seller. Agreements made should be thoroughly considered before they are put on paper. Do you have little experience with this? Then it can be disadvantageous.
4. Can I determine the selling price of my home myself?
Yes, you are free to determine an asking price yourself. Sonar Appartementen will always give you a recommended price. This advice is not binding. However, the real estate agent will have studied your home thoroughly before giving advice. In doing so, they will also look at similar homes in the same residential area and the corresponding square meter prices. You can assume that the recommended price is realistic.
5. Who will negotiate when selling your home?
The real estate agent from Sonar Appartementen will negotiate with potential buyers on your behalf. It goes without saying that every offer will be discussed with you as soon as possible. At the same time, you will receive advice on the best counteroffer. Ultimately, you are the one who determines the amount of a counteroffer; the sales agent will only advise you on this. The agent will also advise you on possible suspensive conditions, including financing and/or a building inspection of the home.
6. Can viewings continue if negotiations are taking place?
Yes, that is possible. If you are negotiating with a potential buyer, that does not mean that the negotiations will be successfully completed. Viewings can therefore continue as normal. Negotiations with a second party are only permitted once negotiations with the first party have been completed. Another potential buyer is free to make an offer. The sales agent will always advise you on the best course of action in the case of multiple interested buyers.
7. When are negotiations taking place?
Do you receive an offer from the potential buyer and do you respond to it by, for example, making a counteroffer? Then you are ‘in negotiation’.
8. What are resolutive conditions?
Resolutive conditions are stated in a purchase agreement. They serve to be able to cancel the purchase in certain cases. Resolutive conditions are not automatically included in a purchase agreement and are not standard either. It is up to the purchasing party to have any resolutive conditions included in the purchase agreement. Financing options are often one of the resolutive conditions. These are presented to you, as the seller, during the negotiations.
9. Am I obliged to agree to resolutive conditions and how long are they valid?
Nothing is mandatory and that also applies to resolutive conditions. However, resolutive conditions are often a given when selling your home. Almost all buyers will want to have the financing and a building inspection recorded as resolutive conditions in the purchase agreement. The period for which the resolutive conditions are valid is also recorded in the purchase agreement. This often concerns a period of four to six weeks.
10. What does subject to financing mean?
One of the most common conditions precedent is ‘subject to financing’. This means that the purchase is binding if the buyer obtains the financing for this. If financing is not obtained, the purchase will be terminated. The period in which the buyer must arrange the financing is set out.
11. Can I, as a seller, have a building inspection carried out?
It can be to your advantage as a seller to have a building inspection carried out on your home. Do this before the home goes on sale. It gives potential buyers confidence if a recent building inspection has been carried out. You can indirectly positively influence the amount of bids with this. The handling of the (sale) process is also shortened. The buyer does not have to have an inspection carried out himself. In addition, the building inspection no longer has to be included as a condition precedent in the purchase agreement.
12. What does the seller's duty to disclose mean?
Buyers have the right to correct information. As a seller, you are legally obliged to provide this information. This is called the duty to disclose. Does your home have invisible defects that you know are there? Then you must tell an interested buyer. This also applies to matters such as possible neighbours who have something on your land or other agreements that you have made with the neighbours and that the neighbours expect to be able to continue in the future. The buyer, on the other hand, has a duty to investigate. This means that he must ensure that he finds out as much as possible about the home.
13. What are hidden or invisible defects?
Defects to and/or in a home are a shady area that is very clear. Hidden defects are usually known to you, as the seller, and are deliberately kept from a buyer. Then there are also invisible defects that you as the seller may or may not know about and that are difficult to see. A buyer wants clarity. Be open about invisible and/or hidden defects. If a buyer later concludes that there is deliberately withheld information, you must repair these defects. Most defects can be traced back to the duration of presence by experienced specialists. It often saves high costs and tug-of-war by providing the right information.
14. Can I do the viewings myself?
Selling your home is fun, so why wouldn't you do the viewings yourself? You know your home best and can use your enthusiasm to show viewers around. Also provide information about the neighborhood, what the neighbors are like and tell them what maintenance work you have recently carried out. Of course, the sales agent can help you with this, especially if there are questions that you cannot answer, you can count on support from Sonar Appartementen.
15. What are the points of attention during a viewing?
A viewing gives viewers a first impression of the house that has caught their attention. Make sure that your house is tidy and that the various rooms are clean. Buyers like to feel at home in their ‘new home’ right away. Give viewers the space to walk through the house independently and take the time to answer questions. The sales agent will give you useful tips for a viewing to ensure that the visit runs smoothly. A viewing usually takes half an hour. Depending on the size of the house and/or the plot, this can be shorter or longer. You will automatically gain experience with the viewings.
