Leasehold contract expires within 15 years
Are you the owner of a house, apartment or commercial property and does your leasehold contract expire within 15 years? Do you want to know what your new land value and ground rent will be? Or are you planning to sell your house, apartment or commercial property? You can apply for a reissue on request.
Only the current leaseholder (seller) can submit a request for a reissue of the ground lease right. The municipality will not consider a request for a reissue of the ground lease right by a future leaseholder (buyer of a home standing on land owned by the municipality).
The municipality will only make you an offer if there are no planning or zoning objections. There may be reasons from an urban planning perspective why the ground lease contract may not be extended, for example if spatial developments are expected in a certain area.
You submit this request for a reissue of the ground lease right. This means that the land will be newly appraised and the municipality will make you an offer.
The application for a reissue on request costs € 750. The ground lease department (afdeling Erfpacht) will process your request once it has received this amount. You will be notified about this at the email address you provided.
You will get the application fee back if you accept the offer and a new ground lease contract is drawn up. Afterwards the ground lease department will do its best to offset the amount of € 750 within 4 weeks and to reimburse you.
Have you paid the reissue application fee? Then you will get an offer after approximately 8 weeks. The offer is valid for 3 months.
Are you applying for an apartment right? Then you will get the reissue (obligatory contract) approximately 6 weeks after the municipality receives the signed offer.
Leasehold contract expires within 5 years
- If your leasehold contract expires within 5 years, you do not need to do anything. You will receive an offer from the municipality between 2 to 3 years before your current contract expires. For more information, visit: Begin link: Leasehold contract expires within 5 years, end link. .
- The Tax Administration (Belastingdienst) views the reissue as an official act. You will pay transfer tax over it.
Video with brief explanation
The video (in Dutch) below explains what it means when your leasehold contract expires.
Do you have any questions about ground lease? Then you can contact the ground lease department (afdeling Erfpacht). The telephone number is (070) 353 52 40, available on weekdays from 9.00 to 16.00 hrs. Or send an email to Begin link: erfpachtbedrijf@denhaag.nl, end link. .