PART ONE: The Ultimate Guide to Buying a House in Amsterdam!

What's good KZbin? I hope this guide is useful for some of you, and please let me know if you have any other questions! Happy moving!
Using Funda: 1:30
Agent consultation: 2:28
Viewing advice: 6:15
Leasehold vs groundhold: 8:30 More info here - www.amsterdam....
Clips of our viewings: 10:36
PART TWO: • PART TWO: Ultimate Gui...
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[@carminered]

Great video. My wife are considering a move to Amsterdam and this 2 part series is going to help a lot!

[@emma-ikigai]

It’s live!

[@patrickhaede4897]

Super nice video with so much detail! You are doing a fantastic job, Emma, keep it up :)

[@emma-ikigai]

Aww thank you Patrick! And thanks for the camera loan haha

[@BradReasonably]

Hi Emma, thanks for making this very informative video. Quick question: What is the office or government agency to contact in order register the house or register the change of ownership? Do you have any info on the various classifications of residences for Amsterdam (for example: where do I find info on the difference between me being a homeowner and living there versus me being a homeowner and renting out a room)?

[@emma-ikigai]

All of this information is handled by the notary when drafting the purchase agreement. For our house, you’re only allowed to rent out the property once your mortgage has been paid. :)

[@JakeIncarnate]

​@@emma-ikigai As of July 1st when you buy a property you actually have to live in it. In certain parts of Amsterdam AirBnB is no longer allowed and to sublet / let your property you need a permit. This is to discourage foreign investors to capitalise on the high demand housing market.

[@TidalFlow.]

Crazy how much lower these prices in Amsterdam were just 3y ago! 😳

[@SamanthaLarbi]

amazing video!!!

[@pedjal.7456]

nice video! looking forward to part 2 :) can you please let me know which area of Amsterdam was Apartment 11 in?

[@emma-ikigai]

Thank you! And Centrale Markt :)

[@residualroyaltyacademy]

how did you get a visa being american?

[@paulroque7820]

Thanks for the info

[@mohammadkermani2987]

Hey! Thanks a lot! This video is great. Something I did not understand was that if you used Funda to find these places? Or were you using another websites and real estate agencies too?

[@emma-ikigai]

Hey Mohammad! Thanks for your comment! Yes we used Funda for all of our searching as we tried a real estate agency, but were not impressed at all with the listings they were showing us

[@yuanyuan1514]

Thanks for the nice video. When checking on funda, should I select < 3 days or < 10 days?

[@emma-ikigai]

If you’re able to actively go to viewings, select 3 days or even today :) Then call or send an email to their agent, and you will usually get a response the very next day asking when you can come. Being an early bidder can help you, so being an early viewer is great!

[@Tendolker]

Solid information..thank u so much

[@calvintien1974]

Nice video i will start looking for my dream home. How do you get a confirmation about the foundation status? What documents can we ask for?

[@gabegage]

Amazing video, super helpful - thanks Emma! Can I ask what Facebook sites you used to find properties for sale? also, what time of the year did you do your search and did that impact? Finding this winter the selection is quite slim..

[@emma-ikigai]

Hi Gabe, sorry for my late reply and thanks for your kind words! We used Funda for our search, it’s an online platform for all things Dutch real estate. We were searching in the summer of 2020, so right at the start of the pandemic, and while the market was super competitive, we happened to get really lucky with the place we found :)

[@Kretinos2323]

1. What was the asking price and how much did you actually pay for it? 2. What types of work do you and your partner do? 3. Do you and your partner have a vaast contract? 4. Did you and your partner have offered an initial down payment to lower the monthly rate?

[@BrigataUPG]

I would like to buy an house in Almere, Hilversum or nearby. Could you please confirm if it's mandatory in NL to renew the foundations of the houses every 45 years?

[@sodirace]

Nailed this one, as I am not in the position to buy a house yet I do appreciate your evolution in film editing. Really good job Emma🙌 camera work was great, you are awesome in front of the camera and I finally get to see Seb! Keep up the videos! What did you film with in the apartments? Iphone?

[@emma-ikigai]

Thank you Tom!! The evolution is all thanks to my friend Patrick who loaned me his camera and microphone haha.. which is a Sony DSLR :)

[@sodirace]

@@emma-ikigai I could tell there was something different, and you are adding so much more on each video. Soon you'll be speaking in English and Dutch😀

[@Don-po8vl]

Very good quality content wish you had made those other vids you were planning to make. An agent/makelaar can be really helpful, in my case I had an verbal agreement to buy a house and than afterwards they got an higher offer from someone else even though they already accepted my offer before. Thanks to mij aankoop makelaar I knew the exact amount the other person bidden on the house as the seller makelaar felt quilty to us for already agreeing and that she gave my makelaar the exact amount the other offered so I made a bid of 5 eur more and in the end still got the nice apartment for a good price in 2018 (Hoofddorp) and it already almost 100k more than I bought it for at the time.

[@NOACeulemans]

Having just gone through most of the same process as you guys (currently in the process of finalizing the purchase and mortgaging), thanks for sharing this video and your learnings! Really looking forward to pt.2. Shame though that r/Amsterdam didn't seem to appreciate the video all that much :(

[@emma-ikigai]

Thank you so much! Hope everything works out with your place :) And yes Reddit is full of trolls haha, but the positive feedback like yours is all that matters!

[@alexandraivashkevich8641]

Please do video on biding process thats most interesting part

[@wisegeorge1472]

@Alexandra ivashkevich. Hello friend 👋 Nice to meet you here, how are you doing today?

[@القادماجملباذنالله-ت2ع]

The houses in Amsterdam look strange in shape... unlike any other house in the world... I mean here the Flour Blan

[@Aminwealth]

So you have seen my apartment too! Haha contact me via Instagram @mrmakelaar

[@NinaMilaa]

Ist hier jemand deutsches der ein Haus in Holland gekauft hat/kaufen will? :)