Waiting for a higher sale price: Comparing the additional holding period as a separate calculation
How do I compare a longer marketing period with an earlier decision, without assuming a higher future price as certain?
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The purchase price does not arrive as planned: professionally organising performance, grace period and withdrawal
How should I, as an Austrian seller, deal with a missing purchase price payment before I start a second sale.
Shared infrastructure when selling a house: distinguish past personal assistance from existing agreements
How do I prepare jointly used facilities for sale when daily life relies heavily on personal arrangements?
Selling a holiday property when future bookings exist: keep guest transactions and the property transaction separately organised
How do I prepare a sale when stays are already agreed for the holiday property after the planned transfer date?
Resident in Austria, sold property in Germany: Bringing a German tax exemption correctly into advice
Which documents and questions do I need as a seller resident in Austria of a German property when a German tax exemption is assumed.
The management does not respond: Systematically obtaining missing communal documents for the flat sale
How do I proceed with selling a condominium when important communal documents are missing and the known contact person does not respond.
Selling a multi-family house as separate units for the first time: check the planned condominiums before advertising
Which separate preliminary checks do I need in Austria before I offer flats of a house not previously divided accordingly for individual sale.
Valuation report available, technical question open: Read the scope of the statement before the sale
How can I, as a seller in Germany, recognise which question an existing valuation report actually answers and which investigation is still missing.
Selling a business property: Clarify the VAT decision before the price wording and contract draft
Which questions must an Austrian entrepreneur clarify early with tax advice regarding VAT when planning the sale of land.
The property belongs to a company: distinguish share sale and land sale before negotiation
How do I prepare a sales proposal in Austria if the shares of the property's owning company are to be transferred instead of the property itself.
No hit in the Altlastenportal: Do not infer pollutant-free status from that when selling a property
How should I, as an Austrian seller, interpret an altlasten query when I have only patchy information about earlier site use?
Selling a listed house: explain the scope of protection from the right documents
How do I prepare the description of a protected house in Austria when prospective buyers ask about remodelling and scope of protection.