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Purchase offer template for Luxembourg

Offer to purchaseOffre d'achat immobilière

A written, signed offer from the buyer to buy a named property at a stated price, with conditions and an expiry date. Under the Luxembourg Civil Code, an unconditional acceptance by the seller forms the sale on the property and the price. The parties then sign a compromis de vente and later the notarial deed.

Use it after a visit, when you want to buy and want to fix your price and conditions in writing. The law does not require an offer. Send it to the seller or to the estate agent who holds the sale mandate. Make it only if you are ready to buy at that price and on those terms: if the seller accepts it without changes, you are bound.

Reviewed October 28, 2026. Not legal advice. Have a notary or lawyer check your case before you sign.

Key facts

Applies to
Whole country
Effect of acceptance
Agreement on the property and the price forms the sale between the parties (Code civil art. 1583 and 1589).
Proof in writing
A deal above 2,500 euros must be proved in writing (Code civil art. 1341).
Counter-offer
An offer below the asking price, or an acceptance with new conditions, reopens talks. Nothing is agreed until both accept the same terms.
Next step
A compromis de vente, which binds both parties. There is no legal cooling-off period after signature.
Duties at the deed
7% of the price: 6% registration and 1% transcription.
Bëllegen Akt tax credit
Up to 40,000 euros per buyer, for a home the buyer will occupy personally for at least 2 years.

The document

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You sign the French version. The English version helps you understand it. Your answers fill both.

Offer to purchase

  1. 1.Parties

    1. 1.1

      I, the undersigned Buyer's full name, residing at Buyer's address, hereinafter "the buyer",

      List every buyer, with date and place of birth.

    2. 1.2

      declare that I make to Seller's full name, residing at Seller's address, or the agent's address, hereinafter "the seller", an offer to buy the property described below, at the following price and on the following terms.

      Name the seller as shown in the listing or the agent's mandate. List every owner.

  2. 2.Description of the property

    1. 2.1

      A property located at Address of the property, consisting of Description of the property, registered in the cadastre as Cadastral reference, offered for sale at the price of Advertised price euros.

      The property must be determined, so nobody can dispute which one the offer covers. Take the cadastral reference from the extract.

  3. 3.Offered price

    1. 3.1

      I offer to buy this property at the price of Offered price in euros, in figures euros (Offered price in words euros), payable when the notarial deed of sale is signed.

      If the figures and the words differ, a dispute follows. The registration and transcription duties and the notary's fees come on top of the price.

  4. 4.Financing and condition precedent

    1. 4.1

      Optional

      I will finance this purchase with own funds of Own funds euros and a bank loan of Loan amount euros.

      Keep this clause and the next one if you need a loan. Delete both only if you pay entirely from your own funds.

    2. 4.2

      Optional

      This offer is made subject to the condition precedent of obtaining this loan. The compromis de vente will repeat this condition and give me Weeks to get the loan after compromis weeks from its signature to obtain the bank's approval.

      Without this condition, an accepted offer binds you even if no bank lends. Guichet.lu reports at least 4 to 6 weeks in practice.

  5. 5.Compromis de vente and notarial deed

    1. 5.1

      If the offer is accepted, the parties will sign a compromis de vente no later than Latest date to sign the compromis. The authentic deed of sale will be executed before Maître Notary proposed for the deed, notary, no later than Target date for the notarial deed. The registration and transcription duties and the costs of the deed will be paid by me.

      The buyer usually pays the notary's costs and the duties, and so usually chooses the notary.

    2. 5.2

      No sum is paid in support of this offer. Any deposit will be agreed in the compromis de vente and paid into the notary's account.

  6. 6.Validity

    1. 6.1

      This offer is valid until Date and time the offer expires. If the seller's written acceptance is not received before that date, the offer lapses automatically.

      A few days to two weeks is common. A short period stops the seller from using your offer to push up other bids.

    2. 6.2

      Any acceptance that changes the price or the terms is a counter-offer and not an acceptance of this offer.

  7. 7.Signatures

    1. 7.1

      Made at Place of signature, on Date of signature. Signature of the buyer.

    2. 7.2

      Seller's acceptance: "Accepted, the above offer at the stated price and on the stated terms", on Date the seller accepts. Signature of the seller.

      Every owner signs. Once the seller signs without changes, the sale is formed and both parties must sign the compromis.

Formalities

  1. No form, witness or notary is required. Write the offer, then sign and date it.
  2. Send it by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt (lettre recommandée avec avis de réception), or hand it to the agent against a dated receipt.
  3. A scanned signature sent by email is not an electronic signature under Luxembourg law. It is weak proof.
  4. Keep proof of the date the seller received the offer. Do not rely on a verbal agreement.
  5. The seller accepts by signing the offer without changes.
  6. Pay no money with the offer.
  7. The notary, not the offer, applies for the Bëllegen Akt tax credit, at the deed.

Common mistakes

  • Offering the asking price without conditions when you need a loan. Some Luxembourg lawyers treat the listing as an offer to sell, so the sale may form at once.
  • Treating a seller's reply with a new price or new terms as acceptance. It is a new offer, and nothing is agreed until you accept it.
  • Leaving out the expiry date. The seller can then accept weeks later, when you have moved on.
  • Paying a deposit to the seller or the agent with the offer. Put any deposit in the compromis and pay it into the notary's account.
  • Describing the property loosely. Give the address, type, rooms, floor, cadastral parcel if known, co-ownership lot numbers, parking, cellar and garden.
  • Forgetting that every owner must accept. If two people own the property, both sign the acceptance.

Legal basis

Sources

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