Support designed to help you buy with discernment, understand market opportunities and move forward with greater clarity at each stage.
Our approach
Buy with more perspective, method, and precision.
We help you clarify your project, prioritize your criteria, and evaluate each opportunity with a realistic assessment of its potential.
The goal is simple: to enable you to move forward with a more accurate market view, a more solid decision-making framework, and timely, valuable support.
What we do
01
Shopping advice
We frame your project based on your objectives, your timeframe, and the type of property you are looking for. You move forward with a clear hierarchy of criteria and a clearer understanding of the trade-offs to be made.
02
Market analysis
Each opportunity is placed in its context: neighborhood, local dynamics, perceived value, and the property’s potential. You make decisions with greater perspective and a more accurate understanding of the Belgian market.
03
Negotiation and acquisition
We intervene at the decisive moment with a calm and rigorous approach, in order to defend your interests, clarify exchanges and secure the best possible conditions.
A better-structured acquisition process, from the initial exchange to the final decision.
We favour a discreet but structuring presence: clarifying the framework, providing the right reference points and intervening at the right time to make the journey more legible and more confident.
- Defining a clear and prioritized research brief.
- Analyzing the Belgian market with a strategic and practical perspective.
- Supporting negotiations to secure the best possible terms.
- Ongoing support until a more informed decision is reached.
Browse the properties available for rent or contact us to entrust us with a more targeted search.
FAQ
Please contact Skyline Renting Services (SRS) as soon as possible, so we can help rectify the situation. We will contact the tenant to establish what the issue is.
SRS will take care of all the necessary formalities with regards to the rental agreement and will keep the registered contract at their office.
Please contact us at SRS as soon as possible. We will provide professional assistance with the outgoing property survey and inventory. We will also start marketing your property again, reaching new potential clients.
Simply contact SRS. We provide a professional distance between you and your tenant and offer all the relevant rental and management services including property marketing, lease negotiation, legal paperwork, and issues such as rent arrears and disputes.
SRS are experienced at working with clients to swiftly transfer gas and electricity meter billing into tenant’s names when they move in. When the property is vacated, we can transfer the meter invoicing back to you as landlord, and transfer it to an ’empty house contract’.
In our experience at SRS, it is best practice to keep the water meter billing in the landlord’s name, since most of our tenants are professional ex-pats from abroad and the water utility will not invoice abroad for unpaid water. So the landlord pays the water charges, and the usage is recovered through the monthly service charge that covers typical water and other community charges. Any additional billing can be recovered at the end of the year. Contact us for more information.
SRS recommends you maintain standard buildings insurance if this is not already included in the apartment building’s monthly service charge. In addition, if your property is furnished, it is best practice to maintain contents insurance so that you have cover should the property be unrented at any time, or if the tenant’s insurance lapses.
Since November 2011, all landlords are legally required to have an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) for their apartment. Without evidence of this certificate, SRS cannot market or show the apartment to prospective tenants. We kindly ask you to provide us with this certificate; or contact us so that we can order the necessary evaluation and certification for you. An EPC remains valid for 10 years.
The rent is paid directly into your account as landlord, so it is important that each month you verify that the rent is up-to-date.
Sometimes the first month’s rent is paid to SRS upon signing of the rental contract, in which case it is deducted from the commission fee.
Each year, on the anniversary date of your tenant’s rental agreement, SRS will index the rent, in line with the official Belgian renting and health index.
We will contact you each year in writing in relation to the annual indexing.
The tenant pays a monthly charge that relates to the building’s service charges and the apartment’s water consumption. Once a year the common charges can be calculated in detail and you as the landlord will be advised in writing of these by both the city water company and the building managers, ‘Syndicus’. Please save these documents and provide copies to us at SRS. We use these to calculate any additional charges owing by the tenant.
All new buildings have a safety card for the apartment door locks, verifying the official key holder. Keys can only be reproduced with the card, preventing unauthorised copies being made. Please keep this card safe. (It is the size of a bank card and will have been provided in your welcome box that came with the delivery of your apartment). Perhaps you can already make a few copies in case your tenant loses one.
Please contact SRS as soon as possible so we can help rectify the situation. We will contact the tenant to establish what the issue is.
SRS will take care of the necessary formalities with regards to the rental agreement and will keep the registered contract at their office.
Please contact us at SRS as soon as possible. We will provide professional assistance with the outgoing property survey and inventory. We will also market your property again, reaching new potential clients.
Please contact SRS. We are experts in property sales and marketing. Our consultants will be able to guide you through the entire process.
Please contact SRS. You will need to sign a formal sale procuration to enable us to commence the marketing of your property.