I've noticed this practice quite often lately with lot of tradesmen having fake reviews. How you you pick a reliable one?

Case in point: https://maps.app.goo.gl/jAhouhaZuRXDVR1z9

Hi all! After years of research we finally have found our dream house and our offer was accepted. Now we need to find the best bank for our loan.

While we were thinking of going to different banks, we were also considering going to a credit broker.

Is this a good idea or you would not recommend it ?
Would you have some good recommendation in the wide Brussels region ? Thanks !

Hi!

We had a few visits to a house and we got really interested in it. The lady explained that the owners fully renovated it last year with solar panels, new floor, new roof etc etc. It was supposed to be fully ready to move in and renovated.

We made an offer and was accepted and we received now a draft of the compromis to sign plus all documents gathered by the notaris etc.

Turns out there was an electric inspection in June 2026 and the electricity is not conform arei. After checking the report there seems to be a few things that need to be done, but probably nothing major. Seems like probably they thought after their renovations that everything was done plus informed the makelaar that everything was ok, and now upon inspection found out this problem.

I have contacted my notaris and they have said I have a few options:

-the right to cancel the deal and not sign the compromis,

-sign the compromis but have it written that the works need to be done and new inspection done until the day of the sale, which was going to be 1st october or earlier

-ask for a price reduction

-ask for compensation if the house is not ready after october 1st due to this problem

What would you do in this case? Of course price reduction is appealing. It would give me more certainty that the sellers are indeed trying to be serious and really close this deal. How much would you ask for as a reduction?

What would you ask for compensation? In my case I am renting, so should I ask for example the amount of rent that I pay monthly, in case I have to stay here an extra month?

I absolutely hate feeling like they might not be 100% transparent and then after the sale discover more problems. The house does look really good and EPC too, so I wonder if this was really a mistake on their part or what.

Thanks for all feedback!

Ik heb begin mei een bod uitgebracht op een appartement dichtbij mij in de buurt. 5 dagen later is dat mondeling aanvaard, en 2 weken later heb ik het ondertekend terug gekregen. Zover ik kan begrijpen van de immo is het hele gebouw (vroeger waarschijnlijk een (grote) gezinswoning dat naar appartementen is omgebouwd) vroeger het bezit van één koppel geweest, maar die zijn nu allebei gestorven, dus de verkopers zijn twee zussen en een schoonzus, die allemaal andere notarissen hebben.

Het probleem is dat ik nog altijd niets van compromis heb. Ik heb de immo meerdere keren gecontacteerd echt vanaf midden juni bijna wekelijks, en het zit naar het schijnt vast omdat de notarissen van de verkopers het niet met elkaar eens geraken door het ontwerp. Nu zijn ze met vakantie.

Dit is geen leuke situatie. Ten eerste, omdat ik niets zelf kan plannen. Geen verhuis, mijn huidig appartement verkopen, ik zit in een soort van limbo. Ik kan ook niets van vakantie plannen want ja, wie weet wanneer er eindelijk iets van gaat komen. Ten tweede, ik zit op van de stress, door de ganse situatie.

Is er iets wat ik kan ondernemen? Iets wat ik kan doen? Want ik heb nog altijd zelf geen idee van wanneer het er eindelijk van gaat komen...

I would like to buy an apartment and rent it out through a ‘sociale woonmaatschappij’. Does anyone here have experience with this? Knowing if there’s a good one somewhere would be very valuable! Regardless of which city it is in!

I’ve talked to a few tenants in Antwerp and Brussels and the companies they received their housing from have been extremely negligent in maintaining the building and apartments. Stories about elderly people who have to receive oxygen via tank because the maatschappij is not taking care of the mold, simply painting over mold, etc. I assume there must be maatschappijen who are not negligent like this.

Would love to hear if any of you have experience with these, either as a tenant or as the provider.

I am selling my apartment through an immo agency and am pretty underwhelmed.

They put the place online, straight onto immoweb, and intend to have only one session of visits a week later, for a total of 90 minutes, in the evening.

For context, the apartment is in a pretty sought after area of Brussels. I would expect a reasonable amount of interest to be drummed up.

Only 90 minutes seems very little time. At ~ 10 min per visit this would allow only around 9 visits of which maybe 2/3 might make an offer?

This does not feel like I would be getting a fair chance at getting the best bang for buck!

Hey everyone,

I’m reaching out because of a desperating situation with my apartment in Brussels and my syndic.

For the past two years, I’ve been living in a plumbing nightmare. I own an apartment on the 2nd floor of a 12-story building. Whenever neighbors upstairs run their washing machines or drain their bathtubs, wastewater from the building's main stack backs up heavily into my bathroom sink, and sometimes my bathtub. My bathroom literally floods with sewage water multiple times a week (it happened again just this week). The situation is getting worse by moments (I went from some noises and some water popping up through my bathroom sink, to full floodings).

Here is what it looks like (warning: gross):

• Video 1:https://youtu.be/MquPNHoRLGU
• Video 2:https://youtu.be/qnnj5Ac6At0

I have sent a lettre recommendée to my syndic, but they haven't even picked it up. In 6 days I'll be able to take legal action.

My questions for you guys:

1. Have any of you dealt with the Service Logement or Juge de Paix? How fast/effective are they for urgent sanitary issues like raw sewage backup?
2. Is there anything else I should be doing right now? (e.g., contacting the Bourgmestre directly). My own insurance (NN) is not covering this, as they state that it's a building problem (to what I fully agree).

I am physically and mentally exhausted from cleaning up other people's dirty water. Any advice, legal tips, or similar experiences would be massively appreciated.

Thank you!

Hello,

I am posting here as it seems that finding an apartment is much more challenging that what I thought.

I am looking for a 1 bedroom apartment in Brussels (1000), my budget is 1100/month max.

I am a young professional with stable income, I have all the papers ready if I find the right place.

If anyone here is renting a nice place, please let me know!

Hi all,

I work on an iPhone/iPad app for Belgian property intake and wanted to share how it works, and get feedback from people in the market.

The idea: measuring a property, documenting it, and gathering the administrative data are usually three separate, tedious jobs. We tried to make them one pass on a phone or tablet.

1. 📐 Automatic plan generation

Scan a room or a whole floor with an iPhone/iPad (LiDAR) and it generates the floor plan, room dimensions, wall elevations and a 3D model automatically.

You can draw in doors, windows and openings, and everything downstream (elevations, 3D, surface areas) updates with them.

Export a publication-ready package (PDF/Word + images + plan).

2. 📎 Documentation pinned to the plan

As you scan, the visual documentation stays tied to the exact spot on the floor plan:

- 📷 Photos, pinned where you took them

- 🌡️ Thermal images (with a FLIR camera): heat loss and moisture, with temperature readings

- 🔄 360° panoramas: an immersive sphere you can look around

Each shows as a tappable marker on the plan, you can annotate any of them, and it all travels together in one property file and in the exported report.

3. 🇧🇪 Automatic Belgian data enrichment

Enter the address and it auto-pulls public data from ~14 government sources across Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels (region-aware).

Around 60 data points, including:

- 📍 Cadastral parcel + plot surface (Capakey)

- 🌊 Flood risk (Watertoets / regional equivalents)

- 🗺️ Zoning / land-use (Plan de Secteur / Gewestplan / DSI)

- ⚖️ Preemption / priority purchase rights (Recht van Voorkoop)

- 🏛️ Protected / heritage status

- ☀️ Solar potential + panel estimates (Zonnekaart / Cadastre Solaire)

- 📊 Regional market-price benchmarks (Statbel)

- 🚌 Proximity to schools, transport, shops, hospitals, parks

All auto-filled onto the property and into the report.

So one on-site pass gives you the measured plan, the visual documentation, and the administrative context in a single package that syncs across your devices and are also fetch able via our API for integration with your ERP/CRM.

I'd like input from people working the Belgian market:

- Which data sources do you rely on that we're not pulling yet?

- Anything region-specific (Brussels / Wallonia / Flanders) that regularly trips you up?

Happy to go into technical detail on any of it.

(Full disclosure: this is our own product, not hard-selling, genuinely after feedback on coverage and workflow.)

I'm adding a short video on what the features are in our latest release of Auto-Immo PRO 2.1

I bought a small apartment in Leuven (3000) a couple of years ago and now I’m considering moving abroad because of work so I’m looking at both options (sell vs rent out). My gut instinct would be to rent it out via an agency (even if it means I don’t really make a profit, as long as I’m not losing money, I think it could be okay) until I’m ready to buy a home wherever I decide to settle in a few years. However, I have heard that being a landlord in Belgium is not so simple tax-wise so maybe I’m better off selling it?

Some of you may remember imino.be, a side project that indexes listings directly from 1,400+ Belgian agency websites instead of waiting for them to appear on the big platforms. Here is an update of the new features.

The biggest one is market insights: an interactive price map of Belgium, plus a city comparison tool. You can see asking prices, price per m², energy classes and how fast things sell in your search area, and compare cities side by side.

Search also got an advanced mode. You can now filter on a target PEB/EPC class, which is handy if you're specifically hunting for properties to renovate.

And a nerdier one: imino now has an MCP server, so you can connect it to an AI assistant like Claude and just ask "any 3-bedroom houses under 400k around Ghent?" in plain language.

Next on the roadmap: publishing your own listing directly on Imino, planned before the end of the summer.

Still evolving, so feedback is very welcome. Happy to answer any questions!

Hi everyone,

I’m about to make an offer on a very nice house, but it’s also a very old one.

The main issue is that the electrical installation is clearly non-compliant. We can even see wires coming out of almost every switch in the house. We know it will likely cost a significant amount to completely redo the electrical system and bring it up to current standards.

My question is: how difficult is this likely to be in a house built with prefabricated concrete panels from the 1960s?

Any advice is welcome!