Rates

Additional comments

• If you buy a property with a loan, you will be charged costs, duties and fees for receiving the purchase deed and costs, duties and fees for receiving the loan deed. This requires different simulations on the notaire.be website .
• In the case of financing, it is advisable to ask your banker about the possibility of concluding a mortgage mandate in addition to a mortgage registration, in order to reduce the registration fees linked to the financing credit. This requires different simulations on the notaire.be website .
• In the event of the sale of a property, the seller will be charged a fee for negotiating and finalizing the sales agreement. These fees range from €242 to €500 (VAT included), in addition to the costs of obtaining and producing the documents to be submitted by the seller.
• In the event of the sale of a property subject to a mortgage registration, the seller will be required to pay fees and charges for the receipt of the deed of discharge, despite full repayment of the loan on which the registration is based. These fees usually range from €1,200 to €1,300 (incl. VAT).
• Certain services may entail additional consultancy fees and charges (e.g. : planning a purchase in dismemberment of ownership, acquisition/sale with intervention of a legal incompetent, preparation of an IOU, tax request by separate application, notification of a town planning division, drawing up a related will,...).
• The management of a particular difficulty, even if not related to the client's facts, will generate an additional consultancy fee (example: management of urban planning issues, polluted soil, hidden defects, special negotiations with a creditor, etc.). The additional fee will be calculated at an hourly rate of €150 excluding VAT (€181.50 including VAT).
• Sale through our office:
  • Public biddit sale: costs to be borne by the seller, generally between 7,500€ and 9,000€ VAT incl.
  • Private sale (occasional and accessory activity): 2% excl. VAT of the sale price
• Costs and fees for transactions not carried out after opening a file:
  • Invocation of a suspensive condition of non-obtainment of credit: €500 excluding VAT, to be increased by any disbursements made on behalf of the customer.
  • Abandonment of file, termination by mutual consent or resolution to the detriment of one of the parties (costs to be borne by the party concerned): €500 excluding VAT, to be increased by 1/3 of the fees to be increased and any disbursements incurred by the customer.
• Power of attorney received by deed:
  • Power of attorney received on the day of signature of the deed of purchase/sale: free of charge
  • In all other cases: €322.25 incl. VAT, plus translation, apostille and travel costs.

Extrajudicial mandates

Donations

Fees vary according to relationship between donor and donees

Fees apply both to donations recorded in a notarial deed and to donations under private signature recorded in a joint pact with legalization of signatures, with a minimum charge of €350 inc. tax. Additional fees may be charged for urgent donations.

Wills

Vesting operations required for bank releases and property transfers

Estate processing & declaration

• Estate declaration salary (calculated in successive instalments, on the gross amount, including the family home and increased by the taxable assets under tax fictions (art. 7 to 11 and 108 C. Succ.))
  • from 0 to 32,000€ :
    • direct descendants, spouses, legal cohabitants: 2% exclusive of VAT, i.e. 774.40€ exclusive of VAT on this bracket in its entirety
    • collaterals: 2.25% exclusive of VAT, i.e. the full amount 871.20€ inc.
  • from €32,000 to €120,000:
    • direct line: 1.15% exclusive of VAT, i.e. €1,224.52 inc.
    • collaterals: 1.73% exclusive of VAT, i.e. a total of €1,842.10 inc.
  • from €120,000 to €300,000:
    • direct line: 0.75% exclusive of VAT, i.e. €1,633.50 (incl. VAT) for the entire range
    • collateral line: 1.00% exclusive of VAT, i.e. €2,178.00 inc.
  • above €300,000:
    • direct line: 0.40% excl. VAT, i.e. the full amount €3,388 incl. VAT
    • collaterals: 0.55% excl. VAT, i.e. on this portion in full €4,658.50 incl. VAT
  • above €1,000,000:
    • direct line: 0.15% excl.
    • collateral: 0.23% excl.

NB: this fee may be increased by 50% if the case is considered complex in view of the circumstances involved (e.g. foreign assets) or in the event of an urgent situation (e.g. late notification in view of remaining tax deadlines).

• File opening costs, including correspondence (50 e-mails sent and received), telephone costs, notary's supplies and equipment: €465.85 incl. VAT.
• Administrative costs depending on the research carried out as part of the inheritance file, in particular (these costs are shown exclusive of VAT):
  

  Correspondence and telephone charges :

  Mails outside normal management	10,00 €
  Ordinary mail outside normal management	10,00 €
  Registered mail	33,00€
  Telephone calls	5,00€
  Hourly meeting fee	200,00€
  CRT & CRT+ research	31,00 €
  CRH research	27,00 €
  AGDP research	27,00 €
  Cadastre search	27,00 €
  Tax formalities (ASF per person)	27,00 €
  Notification to condominium manager	75,00 €
  Travel expenses /km	0,45€
  Request to the tax authorities for a preliminary assessment	200,00€
  Justification of tax fictions (art. 4 et seq. + art. 108 C. succ.)	Hourly rate

The statement of costs and fees for the inheritance declaration will be sent to the client at the same time as the draft inheritance declaration. Payment should be requested by the day of signing the declaration of inheritance at the latest, by bank transfer to the firm's account, using the reference number shown on the statement.

The inheritance tax assessment notice will be sent to the firm by the relevant inheritance tax office, with a copy to the heirs. Inheritance tax must be paid within 6 months of the date of death to the inheritance tax office by bank transfer to the account and with the reference mentioned on the tax assessment.

Special estate transactions

To be increased by execution fees: scale A on assets

Deed of delivery of a customized legacy

Inventory :

Power of attorney to liquidate the estate

Liquidation / management of estate assets

plus actual costs of service provider

Liquidation of funds in the firm's office legal scale "A" on liquidated funds (in the absence of tax/social debts) and legal scale "I" on liquidated funds with tax/social debts

Acceptance with benefit of inventory / renunciation of succession

to be increased by 242€ VAT incl. in the presence of an protected person, if the judicial authorization is followed up by the firm

Liquidation statement

For assistance in negotiating the division of an estate and drawing up a deed of settlement/partition between heirs, please refer to the "amicable & judicial division" section.

Negotiation of an amicable settlement recorded in an agreement (under private signature) :

from 1% to 2% exclusive of VAT (i.e. from 1.21% to 2.42% inclusive of VAT) of the gross assets to be divided. the notary's discretion, taking into account the legal and emotional complexity of the work involved and the size of the assets to be divided.

Fees for legal operations

Inventory

Amicable settlement deed / judicial liquidation statement

Tariffed fees :

Please do not hesitate to consult our notaries and/or their staff for an overview of the fees and charges for other notarial operations.

We will be delighted to inform you of the fees charged for the following operations:

• Basic deeds / division deeds / amending basic deeds
• Company deeds (incorporation, modification, liquidation, mergers, demergers, transformations, restructuring, ....)
• Declarations of unseizability of the self-employed person's home
• Legalisation of signatures and certification of documents
• Cohabitation contracts
• Deeds of acknowledgement of debt
• Tax requests

Land / long lease

• Deed of easement
• Sale with life annuity

If a notarized transaction is not carried out following the opening of a file and is not completed for a reason that cannot be attributed to the notary's office, fees amounting to 1/3 of the tariffed fees as well as administrative costs and disbursements relating to the planned transaction may be claimed from the client.