Financing for house purchase

What is there really to clarify: usually just the purchase price and the accessories of the object being purchased (possibly the allocation of the purchase price) and the time of transfer. One should indeed agree on that before going to the notary. But no one needs a contract draft beforehand for that. The rest (creation of land charges, priority notice etc.) can be inserted into the standard contract during the notary appointment. It just takes about an hour longer.

You are not a lawyer, are you?

So, to wrap up the topic: The seller backed out three days before the notary appointment and sold elsewhere. Cancellation on Tuesday evening, the bank approval would have come on Wednesday. The notary appointment was scheduled for Friday, preliminary contract drawn up. Now we are stuck with the costs. Since we would not have signed on Friday if the approval had not come on Wednesday, it was too uncertain for him according to his own statement. We are talking about one day here, whereas the gentleman and his wife would not have moved out until the end of January 16. He also told me that the notary costs for the preliminary contract would never amount to €1400, that could not be possible. He always thought he knew everything better anyway. Al

Hello, why do you have to pay the notary if the seller has backed out? Who arranged him including the preliminary contract?

Payment must be made by the party who placed the order; in this case, that was apparently the buyers. Therefore, once again my recommendation: either have the other party commission the notary, issue a joint order (which halves the costs), or not request a draft at all (I have given reasons above).