Property only after contract with the developer

The fact is. At the notary, no new building contracts are made. There are either pure land contracts or contracts for land with an existing house on it. As long as only land is purchased and nothing else happens, there is no tied transaction. k

For once you are only partially right: There are many more tied contracts than you apparently suspect. Sure, the notary makes the land contract – and in parallel, there is usually a house construction contract (in tied transactions). The mere consideration of the land contract does not yet say anything conclusive about whether it is a tied transaction. In this case, the world is more complicated...