Many questions at once
Not infrequently, properties and their value are the reason why family members fall out or drift apart after a death. Usually a whole series of questions has to be settled — and in a community of heirs each of them has to be answered unanimously.
Who decides
- Who continues to look after the property?
- Does it stay in the community of heirs?
- Does one heir want to take it on?
What it is worth
- What is the actual market value?
- Should it be sold?
- At what point?
How it is divided
- Should shares be transferred?
- Should it be divided?
- Or charged against a loan?
Where all the heirs share the same interests, these points can be worked through calmly. Where views differ — often simply out of ignorance — conflict arises.
In a conflict it is often not about the property at all, but about the relationship between the family members.
Arno Kupec, trained property mediator
What it is really about
That is where we come in as mediators. We do not represent one heir or another. We are neutral, take account of everyone's interests and mediate a purposeful settlement of the estate — with knowledge of the property and more than thirty years in this industry.
Inherited properties
Deciding together instead of ending up in court.
Inherited properties
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What is at stake
Disputes between heirs regularly lead to empty properties, sometimes to forced sales, and to legal costs that burden every heir. Those costs can be avoided.
Details of the procedure and the fee are set out under mediation.
