Aren't you with the seller at the notary at the same time? Is that even possible?
Yeah. With a representative without power of attorney, then the contract is initially voidable and is sent to us after the seller's signature. We then go to our notary, sign there, and the whole thing goes back to the first notary. It's called retroactive approval or something similar. The second notary charges almost 100 euros again for the certification of the signature, which is definitely cheaper than the trip.
It's all quite nice, but it's starting to get annoying that we've been waiting for the contract for a week now. At first, it was supposed to go very fast, and now time is passing. They only send the contract as an email to print out anyway. They keep the original. OK, I didn't know that was possible either.