Home Search and Home Placement Disclaimer

This statement was last updated on 05 March 2026

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The undersigned (confirmed when ticking box on home placement/home search)

The private company with limited liability Your Housing Services B.V.registered in the Chamber of Commerce under number 91772818, hereinafter referred to as: "Your Housing Services";

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Whereas:

• The Client is looking for accommodation to rent;

• Your Housing Services intermediates in the conclusion of leases between lessees and lessors of accommodation, exclusively intermediating on the instructions of lessees and not for lessors and therefore exclusively representing the interests of lessees and not those of lessors;

• The Client wishes to give instructions to Your Housing Services for the payment of commission, to work as an intermediary in concluding a lease for accommodation between the Client as the lessee on the one hand and the lessor of the accommodation in question on the other hand.

Have agreed as follows:

Article 1 - Instructions for intermediary services

• The Client instructs Your Housing Services to act as an intermediary for payment in concluding a lease with a third party for accommodation suitable for the Client.

Article 2 - Details of the instructions, work and working method of Your Housing Services

• The work of Your Housing Services can, according to the wishes of the Client and what Parties further agree on in the performance of this agreement, consist of the following matters:

• identifying the residential wishes/search profile of the Client;

• looking for and selecting suitable accommodation for the Client based on the Client's residential wishes/search profile;

• carrying out viewings for the Client and providing information on one or more homes to be leased, including the organization thereof;

• giving general information about the possibilities of finding a home, the local housing market, accommodation permits, housing allowance, rent protection, rent prices, registration in the municipal personal records database;

• assessment of viewings with the Client;

• compiling a file on the Client and on that basis presenting the Client as a prospective lessee to potential lessors and working towards them allocating the home in question to the Client;

• carrying out negotiations with potential lessors on the content of the lease on behalf of the Client;

• concluding a written lease and arranging for signing of the lease by both parties;

• providing information on and explanation to the lease;

• ensuring that the first payment to the lessor is made on time;

• organizing handover of the home to the Client;

• drawing up a proper inspection report (with photos) (including the meter readings, control keys, control inventory, inventories of defects);

• where necessary addressing the lessor on the observance of his obligations on the commencement of the lease;

• providing support for: maintenance contracts, removals, transport/purchase of fittings, looking for workers for painting work, wallpapering, floor covering, etc.;

• assisting in acquiring telephone and internet and connection to utilities.

• The Client is aware that Your Housing Services has been given consent by various potential lessors of accommodation to present accommodation by various means, including the website of Your Housing Services and/or websites of third parties and that Your Housing Services does not charge these potential lessors for such. The Client agrees to this also in the event that it concerns the lessor with whom the Client enters into a lease for the presented accommodation in question due to the intermediary services of Your Housing Services.

• The Client will provide Your Housing Services on his own initiative with all information, data and documents necessary for the performance of the assignment and the Client will guarantee the accuracy thereof. This information and documents will include but is not limited to: valid proof of identification, valid proof of residence in the Netherlands, recent salary slips, recent bank statements (showing salary payments), employer's statement and suchlike.

• Once the Client has chosen certain accommodation the Parties will record this in writing in a declaration of intent to be signed by the Client. This will also record: specifications of the accommodation in question, the work already carried out by Your Housing Services, the work still to be carried out by Your Housing Services and the information, details and documents to be submitted by the Client. On signing the declaration of intent, the Client will pay Your Housing Services the commission by way of a down payment. After signing the declaration of intent Your Housing Services will present the Client to the lessor for the accommodation in question and if the lessor is prepared to accept the Client as lessee start the negotiations with the lessor on behalf of the lessee on the content of the lease.

Article 3 - Payment for the services of Your Housing Services (commission)

• If a lease is concluded for accommodation between the Client and lessor due to the services of Your Housing Services the Client owes Your Housing Services a fee, hereinafter referred to as "Commission".

• This commission will be equivalent to one (1) month's gross rent (therefore including any service costs) in accordance with the lease offer of the lessor in question, plus 21% VAT and is owed by the Client by way of a down payment on acceptance of the home by the Client (on signing the declaration of intent). The payment is definitive once a lease is concluded. Your Housing Services will refund the amount of the payment to the Client if no lease is concluded for the accommodation in question after the down payment.

• The commission is deemed to be a reasonable fee for the work carried out by Your Housing Services for the Client in performance of this agreement. Parties take into consideration that regardless of the work carried out by Your Housing Services in performance of this agreement the Client owes no commission as long as no lease is concluded, and the owed commission is a standard rate in the market that is not linked to the amount of work carried out by Your Housing Services but to a result.

• The Client agrees to pay the the commission to Your Housing Services and not to occupy the accommodation until payment has been received.

 

Article 4 - General Conditions Intermediary Services Lessee

• The General Conditions (“Algemene Voorwaarden”) of Your Housing Services published on the website of Your Housing Services apply to this agreement. The Client declares to have read, understood and accepted these conditions on signing this agreement.

 

As agreed, drawn up in duplicate, initialed and signed:

 

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Your Housing Services representative

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