Bidding for another person: Making full representation provable before the auction hearing
How do I prepare, before a German property foreclosure auction, the bid for another person with fully proven power of representation.
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Buying a burnt-out ruin outside built-up areas (Außenbereich): proving the claimed right to rebuild before deciding on the price
Before buying a burnt-out ruin outside built-up areas in Germany, how do I check whether my planned reconstruction rests on a sound basis?
Buying a property during a Flurbereinigung: understanding the adopted procedural status before deciding the price
How do I check, when buying a property during an ongoing Flurbereinigung, which earlier decisions and agreements I must adopt?
Before the German purchase offer: decide together on the method of declaration, binding nature and open conditions
What do I need to clarify before my purchase offer in Germany, especially when offer and acceptance are to be notarised separately.
Service charge (Hausgeld) and additional costs before buying a flat: deriving your own payment obligation from documents and dates
Before buying a flat in Germany, how do I combine the service charge, upcoming works and special levies (Sonderumlagen) into a reliable payment decision of my own?
Taking possession of the property after purchase: recording contractual scope, actual condition and open handover points together
How do I carry out the actual handover of an existing property purchased in Germany so that rooms, fittings, proofs and open points remain comprehensible.
Buying a municipal building plot with a building obligation: understand the deadline, the required completion and the consequences of repurchase before committing
How do I review the purchase of a German municipal plot if I must build on it within a certain period and a repurchase right is provided.
The purchased subsection is designated differently after the survey: clarify identity, configuration and price before execution
How do I, as a buyer in Germany, check a survey result that differs from the previous figures for the purchased parcel subsection.
Checking Baulasten before buying a plot: Combine the official statement with the actually planned use
How do I clarify existing Baulasten before buying a plot in Germany and their significance for my intended use plan.
Buying a care apartment with a later personal-use promise: check ownership, operator agreement and care place separately
What must I clarify before buying a German care apartment when the investment additionally promises a later personal care place.
The grant of probate is called into question before transfer of ownership: Immediately obtain professional assessment of the new notice during a house purchase
How do I handle an ongoing German house purchase if doubts about the presented grant of probate or a court reclamation become known before transfer of ownership?
A building defect is reported after the award of the bid: correctly handling the auction purchase before key access
How should I, as the successful purchaser in Germany, proceed if a new damage to the auctioned property becomes known between the award of the bid and actual access to the property?