Expats who would like to buy or sell a property can be assisted by a real estate broker. Nowadays real estate brokers are member to organisations like NVM, ERA, Garantiemakelaar, VBO, LMV and many other small organisations.

The Netherlands association of real estate brokers and property experts NVM is the largest Dutch branch organization in the fields of property brokerage and management. Over 3,500 brokers and property experts hold the NVM-membership. They are active in the specialist fields of Agrarian Real Estate, Commercial Real Estate, Property Management and Residential Real Estate.

You can find their website on www.nvm.nl. The properties for sale can be found on www.funda.nl.

 

 

The Garantiemakelaar (guarantee real estate broker) is also connected to the NVM but is aiming to provide extra quality in 4 areas: quality, frankness, security and clearness.

The Garantiemakelaar can be found on the internet on www.garantiemakelaar.nl.

 

The Landelijke Makelaars Vereniging (national real estate brokers organisation), founded in 1987, has about 400 members. These members are situated all over the country and registered estate broker. The LVM has set up the LMV-Datanetwork, a system which contains all the properties for sale from LVM members. The LMV is going for quality.

The quality is shown by the fact that information is provided regarding the quality of the property itself.

You can find the LMV on www.lmv.nl.

 

 

ERA also has a datanetwork with all the properties they have for sale. ERA offers a couple of services which give the organisation it's own identity.

ERA can be found on www.era.nl.

 

 

The Vereniging Bemiddeling Onroerend Goed is an active brancheorganisation, founded in 1985, who serves the interests of professional property advisors and real estate brokers. The organisation has around 550 members.

The VBO offers consumer focused services. For example a 'consideration' period of 3 days is offered to people who bought a property from a VBO member. .

VBO can be found on www.vbo.nl.