Makelaarshuis Helmond was founded in 2003. Hundreds of homes sold across Helmond and Eindhoven. One principle throughout: tell people the truth, even when a more flattering answer would win the business.
It started in 2003 in Eindhoven, at a time when almost nobody used a buying agent. Buyers walked into viewings alone, opposite a professional who was working for the other side. We thought that was a strange way to run the largest purchase of someone\'s life, so we started doing it differently.
What grew out of that was not the biggest agency in the region. It was a client base that keeps coming back, and that sends their children and their colleagues. Over twenty years that adds up to something more useful than market share.
When ASML expanded and the International School grew, many of the people arriving here became our clients. That taught us something most Dutch agents never have to learn: how differently people from other countries negotiate, decide and expect to be informed. We adapted to that rather than expecting them to adapt to us.
I know exactly how agents work their way towards winning an instruction. At valuations I still see people being seduced with promises and with an asking price that never materialises. Our approach has always been straight, including when a property is not perfect or when a figure another agent has quoted is simply far too high.
I also say no to properties. Sometimes because I am not the right agent for that particular buyer group, sometimes because the click with the seller is not there. Because you sell a house together: the seller has to understand the agent, and the other way round.
Am I going to tell you which agents are bad at their job? No. I do not believe in running other people down. Agents who need to talk about others to make themselves look good are usually unsure about their own work.
We would rather concentrate on our own. On a property mapped out in detail, on a presentation that is right, and on marketing that actually reaches the right buyer. Small terraced house or beautiful villa, every home gets the same attention.
Including when the truth is uncomfortable. An honest value and an honest story, even when it means telling you something you would rather not hear.
Every home deserves a presentation that does it justice. We map your property fully and present it at a level that genuinely reaches the right buyer.
You cannot do more than your best. But you do have to actually use that hundred percent. That has always been the measure.
Erik-Jan Klawer, personally. From the first valuation through the viewings and the negotiation to the signing at the notary. There is no handover to a colleague halfway through.
English, German and French fluently, reasonable Spanish, and of course Dutch. Also by WhatsApp, and we reply in the language you wrote in.
Helmond and all its neighbourhoods, Eindhoven, and the surrounding towns including Mierlo, Nuenen, Geldrop, Deurne and Laarbeek.
Yes. We guide buyers through searching, viewing, valuing, bidding and negotiating, up to and including the handover at the notary. Also in English.
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