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Home / Selling property in Basel / How a property sale works

How a sale works

Four steps. The third is the one at which it becomes binding – before that, nothing costs you anything.

  1. Getting acquainted and site visit
    Mr Ruf comes by, looks at the property and asks what you intend to do. Sale, inheritance, separation, financing or mere orientation changes everything that follows. Free of charge and without obligation.
  2. Valuation with reasoning
    You do not receive a black-box figure but a valuation you can follow – with what we looked at and what we conclude from it. The pricing strategy is derived from that.
  3. Sales mandate, quiet lead-in, then marketing
    It becomes binding with the signed sales mandate. After that we first show the property to selected interested parties before it is advertised publicly – this protects the price, because a property that sits on the market for a long time loses value. Only if that yields nothing do we go wide.
  4. Notarial deed – and what comes afterwards
    We accompany you to the notary's office and coordinate what is needed for it. After that we stay on: for condominium ownership we continue to manage the owners' association and the renovation fund (Erneuerungsfonds), for investment properties the property management.

Property gains tax

When a property is sold, property gains tax is due in both Basel cantons. How much it comes to depends on the gain and on the length of ownership, and there are grounds for deferral – for example on a replacement purchase or on inheritance. We point out where the question becomes relevant in your case, but we do not calculate it for you: that is the responsibility of the cantonal tax administrations and your fiduciary, and wrong information from us would cost more than a telephone call to them.

Fee

Our fee falls due on success, upon the notarial deed. The first valuation and the meeting before it cost nothing, even if no mandate comes of it. We agree the amount of the fee in a personal meeting, before you sign anything.

Dieter Ruf
Dieter Ruf
Managing Director, Madiba Immobilien AG
MAS ZFH in Real Estate Management · eidg. dipl. Immobilientreuhänder
2008–2021 Präsident der Prüfungskommission der Höheren Fachprüfung Immobilientreuhand · 2009–2020 Präsident der Schweizerischen Fachprüfungskommission der Immobilienwirtschaft
“I look at every property myself. A sound valuation needs a site visit – and a conversation about what you actually intend to do.”

Madiba has been managing and brokering property in Basel since 1964. Mr Ruf handles the sale himself, from the first valuation to the notarial deed.

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Start with the first step

A meeting, a site visit – and after that you decide.

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