Purchase Agreement Land - Contamination

Me again about the contamination:

That’s why my idea was to negotiate a clause in the purchase contract for reversal with the seller. This clause should include a case of subsequently detected contamination of the soil.
What do you think about that? Is it common and realistic?

We have already received confirmation. Nevertheless, I want to protect myself against such an unforeseeable property characteristic, as it could of course reduce the value.

I want to avoid any further unforeseeable costs arising with this huge volume.

In my opinion, you cannot protect yourself.
You can write a lot into a notary contract, but it has to be defined. And without having a report prepared beforehand, there are no comprehensible values.
Where do you want to draw the line? Slightly contaminated, heavily contaminated? So from what value on or other? Is it contaminated in one corner or in several places? ... is it even the oil from the deceased’s tanks or is it the mentioned oil washed up by ?

In principle, that is exactly why soil investigations exist: either the seller offers it as a service (so that anyone will buy in the first place), the buyer arranges one before the purchase himself (to protect himself), or he organizes it after the purchase, to be able to build calmly and cleanly on good ground.
Ultimately, an unconsidered purchase of any property would be possible if one proceeded like this. In my opinion, such a thing only applies in the case of deception and lies. But for that, you don’t need such a clause. The service of a notary should not be overstretched in this regard.

But you can try if you like and then report back. I assume that the community of heirs will then turn to other interested parties and eventually sell to whoever causes no trouble.

Here I am again about the contamination:

In my opinion, you cannot protect yourself. You can write a lot into a notary agreement, but it has to be defined. And without having previously created an expert report, there are no comprehensible values. Where do you want to draw the line? A little contaminated, very contaminated? So, from which value on? Is it contaminated in one corner or in several places? ... is it even the oil from the deceased’s tanks or is it the mentioned washed-up oil from ?

In principle, that is exactly why soil investigations exist: either the seller offers it as a service (so that anyone will buy at all), the buyer arranges one before the purchase (to protect themselves), or they arrange it after the purchase to be able to build peacefully and cleanly on good ground. Ultimately, an ill-considered purchase of any property would be possible if one proceeded like that. In my opinion, such a thing only applies in cases of deception and fraud. But for that, no such clause is needed. The service of a notary should not be overstretched in this regard.

But you can certainly try and then report back. I assume that the community of heirs will then turn to other interested parties and ultimately sell to the one who doesn’t cause any trouble.

Thank you for the feedback! It will not be possible in time to obtain a soil report before the purchase. The lead times are too long.

I'll get back to the topic.
Finally, another independent question:
Along the property there is an old overhead power line. See picture. This once supplied my old building house (no longer necessary today) and still supplies a house on the other side of the street. Since I no longer need this line, I would like to have the line removed up to the next pole (see front left).
Do you have experience with this and what costs should be expected? Is this handled by the power generator or by the building authority?

We have something similar on our property, the neighbor's houses also have overhead lines which we actually do not want and also do not want to see.
I called the local supplier and arranged a non-binding appointment at the property with them.
At the appointment, it turned out that what is not needed will be removed and the neighbor's line can be set up on a new pole at the end of the property which we have to pay for. The guy estimated costs for dismantling everything and a new pole + new connections at about €1,500 - 2,000.
So we would have the old overhead lines gone except the one to the neighbor and this would be out of our line of sight if we let the new pole be installed.
Of course, it depends on what kind of guy you get, but I would just make a non-binding appointment with the local power supplier so you can discuss everything.

Regards
Andreas

Great! That gives me courage! When the time comes, I will then speak with the architect & supplier.

According to the broker, all oil tanks were professionally cut open and the contents cleaned.

At the end of a proper tank cleaning there is no broker nonsense, but a certificate, e.g. in the form of an invoice from the specialist company, whose approval as a specialist company should be evident.

I just spoke with the real estate agent. He told me that he has already spoken with the owners and they will probably send me all the evidence/documents of the proper removal of the oil by the end of this week / beginning of next week. That sounds very good for now

Thanks for the feedback! It won’t be possible to get a soil survey before the purchase due to the lead times being too long.

I know. So you’re like many who don’t want to buy a pig in a poke. Then you have the option not to buy or to have the survey done later. But a notary contract is not a shopping cart on Amazon with a 14-day return policy. The notary is too expensive for that.