Buying a house in the Netherlands with an online mortgage: pros and cons

Buying a house in the Netherlands is easier than you may think, particularly now that more of the process can be done online. ‘It was the coronavirus pandemic and the need to move so much of our work online that lead to the idea,’ says Chiel Versteege of MyDutchMortgage.online, the Netherlands first fully online mortgage broker. ‘People who want to know how to buy a house in the Netherlands are used to looking up information about the process online, so we thought, why not make the entire mortgage application process digital as well?’ The result, a year in the making, is a streamlined service that covers the process from start to finish, which, says Chiel can be completed by first-time buyers at a time and place convenient to them. Simple For a start, using an online mortgage broker like MyDutchMortgage.online is best suited to you if you are a first-time buyer in regular employment, with a permanent or at least a one-year contract. Convenient It does without saying if the thought of applying for a mortgage to buy a house in the Netherlands online seems too daunting, or if your situation is more complicated because you already have a property to sell, then the traditional mortgage broker remains your best option, says Chiel.