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> you have to physically go to the notary and have a person READ OUT all the statutes to you.

I guess, you've never bought a house in the Netherlands then, because it's the same exact process

That is beyond hilarious lol. Finally found something the UK does better than the Netherlands ;)

I never understood why people focus on this "reading aloud" so much.

It's not so much about the reading out loud, it's about making sure you understand (so that you cannot later claim "but I didn't know about this, nobody explained it to me properly")

What does reading it aloud make a difference to you reading it yourself? You can still claim that they misspoke or had an accent and you misheard or any of a dozen other excuses.

The whole point of a contract is you sign your name to the words on the paper, and you are attesting that the words therein are correct and what you agree to.

I am living in my second house I bought and they absolutely did not.

They just confirmed I was buying a house for X.

They did not read the whole thing.

A reading is mandatory (art. 43 WNA), but a party may opt for a limited reading if it declares that it has read and understood the content.

So it is not mandatory then, lol.

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