Buying a house in the Netherlands: First Steps

In this video, I take you along on my exciting journey of buying a house in the Netherlands. Join me as I share my experiences and insights on the entire process, from making the decision to buy a house, to viewing properties, hiring a real estate agent and mortgage advisor, and utilizing helpful apps and websites to streamline the process.
Also, stay tuned for the next video, where I'll share the final steps and the exciting conclusion of my house-buying adventure!
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- Dutch statistics about house pricing: opendata.cbs.nl/statline/#/CB...
- Most popular website for searching housing: www.funda.nl/en/
- Checking the average prices based on location: walterliving.com/nl/en/
- The mortgage advisor firm we used: www.hypotheekshop.nl/
- Another expat oriented mortgage advisor firm: expatmortgages.nl/
The entire timeline of buying a house:
- 05.04.2023 - We first met with the real estate agent and signed the contract with them the next day.
- 08.04.2023 - 24.04.2023 - we went for house viewings organized by the agent. We visited Zwolle 3 times and looked at about 7-8 houses.
- 24.04.2023 - We had the first consultation with the mortgage advisor.
- 26.04.2023 - We bid on the house, and they accepted the bid the same day.
- 01.05.2023 - We asked the rental company if we could terminate the rental contract earlier to buy a house, and they agreed, so we settled the date with the house owner.
- 03.05.2023 - We hired a technical inspector to check the house.
- 18.05.2023 - Our mortgage advisor applied for a mortgage after collecting all the docs from us.
- 01.06.2023 - We got the mortgage confirmation. It would have been even faster if we were not from Russia.
- 28.06.2023 - We got the keys, signed everything at the notary, and moved to the house.
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00:00 Intro
01:01 Research
02:33 Starting the process and picking the city
03:48 Who to hire?
05:26 Looking for houses
06:31 What we liked about our house
07:55 Ending
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