FAQ

General

Yes, we are a normal sales broker with a digital edge. We have branches all over the country where you can just walk in for a coffee. There we only work with regional brokers who know the neighborhood like the back of their hand. The digital edge is our bidding platform. Because we believe that bidding should be fair and transparent, we have decided to have all bids added via our online bidding system.

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Through our open bidding platform where everyone gets a fair chance to make a bid and where all bids are visible afterwards.

In this way, you will have more net profit remaining from the sale of the home.

Bidders are verified through a personal identification of the bidder (e.g. a legitimate ID) and soon by an IDIN verification.

With open bidding everyone can follow each other’s bids in real time and with closed bidding the bidding round is completely protected. After the house has been delivered, the automated bidding log is visible to every bidder after the house has been delivered.

No, we do not offer any other services besides sales. We only facilitate other services through affiliated partners.

For sellers

We provide clear agreements without any surprises afterwards. Based on your preferences, we agree on a fixed price in advance, or a commission based on a percentage (brokerage) of the sales price.

If the home is not awarded by the seller to one of the bidders, Bieden & Wonen will organize a new bidding round.

If no bids have been received, Bieden & Wonen will organize new bidding rounds until the house has been sold. We do this because we want all bids to be logged, so that everyone has 100% certainty that bids have never been tampered with. Optionally, a seller can consult with the sales broker to make a proposal for a price change.

For bidders

After the viewing you can immediately create a bidder account via the link. After that, your account will be validated on our website. You will then find the period within which you can place a bid on the property in the property advertisement.

All homes have a fixed start and end bidding time.

During the bidding it is possible to use our automatic bidding robot. How does this work? The first time you want to bid, you immediately place your highest bid (that is your bid ceiling). But you do check ‘proxy bid’. Our system will now place the first bid for you (from price + minimum bid step). If you are now outbid, the system will immediately place the next bid on your behalf, again with the minimum bid step of that property. You will simply get notifications regarding this process via e-mail.

You will automatically receive notifications by e-mail of all bids you make, when you are outbid or when you have set up a proxy/automatic bid. This automatic notification expires when a new bidding round is started.

Bids are binding, although the bidder always has the legal 3-day cooling-off period after signing the purchase contract that every buyer has (and any resolutive conditions).

Then the bidding round is automatically extended by an additional 5 minutes. This will continue indefinitely, to continue to give all bidders a fair an equal chance.

No. The home can also be awarded by the home owner to one of the other bidders with, for example, better resolutive conditions in the seller’s opinion.

They remain stored in the system, but are no longer displayed.

After bidding

If no bids have been received, Bieden & Wonen will organize new bidding rounds until the house has been sold. Optionally, a seller can consult with the sales broker to make a proposal for a price change.

If the home is not awarded by the seller to one of the bidders, Bieden & Wonen will organize a new bidding round.

The bids remain visible for at least 3 days after the online bidding round. Upon request, a bidder can have the bids removed. Bieden & Wonen only removes the bids when the bidder has indicated that he no longer wishes to participate in a possible new bidding round.

Yes, the buyer always has the statutory 3-day cooling-off period after signing the preliminary purchase contract.

This means that the seller is never obliged to sell the property to one of the bidders. The seller retains the right to award the property.

After the end of the bidding round and after the cooling-off period and any resolutive conditions (of the winning bid) have expired, the bidding log will be published with the property advertisement.