What is the Flemish Housing Pass? What dates does it contain? How do you get access? Find out everything you need to know about the Flemish Housing Pass here.
Note: This article is about the Flemish Housing Passport for residential properties. Are you looking for the digital passport for non-residential housing? Then go to our article: Flemish building pass: everything you need to know.
What is the Flemish Housing Pass?
The Flemish Housing Pass is a free digital passport that contains all the information of a residential building and its land. The information is info available to the Flemish Government. The property owner himself can add documents to the Flemish Housing Pass.
The housing pass facilitates administration when building, remodeling, selling and renting the property. In addition, the housing pass also increases transparency in the real estate industry. Finally, it allows us to improve housing quality together.
Which buildings does the housing pass apply to?
The Flemish Housing Pass applies to all residential buildings. This includes housing such as row houses, detached houses, semi-detached houses, villas, bungalows, apartments, studios, student housing, senior housing, etc.
The Flemish Housing Pass does not apply to non-residential buildings such as offices, factories, stores, industrial and agricultural properties.
For non-residential buildings the Flemish building pass.
What dates does the Flemish Housing Pass contain?
There is automatically information already in the housing pass. The Flemish Government added it for you. The government probably does not have all the information, so you – as the owner – can add documents (supporting documents) yourself. See the list below. This information remains permanently attached to the property and is transferable from owner to owner.
The data will keep expanding. So the list below is not limited to the data points below:
- The mobiscore
- The insulation score
- The asbestos certificate
- The Gas Certificate
- Energy consumption
- The soil attestation and soil information
- The inspection certificates of the heating system
- The EPB declaration and energy performance certificate (EPC).
- The urban planning and digital building permit (environmental permit)
- Information on:
- the sewage system
- the glazing
- the housing quality
- spatial planning
- the renovation obligation
- the electricity and gas meters and consumption
- the flood sensitivity of the environment
- the teal level: how climate-proof is your home?
- the heat map: how available is renewable heat?
- the year of construction, year of renovation, area and volume
- the solar map: is your roof suitable for a solar water heater or solar panels?
- water supply, indoor water plant inspection and private water inspection
- the systems: domestic hot water, heating, cooling, ventilation, home batteries and solar panels
- Roadmap for selling, (re)building or renting your home with:
- an overview of useful and mandatory certificates
- website links to procedures to apply for these certificates
- …
How do I access the Flemish Housing Pass?
As the owner of the building you log in via woningpas.vlaanderen.be with your electronic identity card (eID) and code or with a digital key such as the itsme app, security code via app or SMS.
Are you the owner of the house or apartment? Then there is an option to share the Flemish housing pass. You choose with whom and for what period you share the housing pass. So share your housing pass easily with family, future buyers, tenants, architects, contractors, real estate agents, your notary, etc.
Share your Flemish Housing Pass digitally via a (temporary) link or print it in a short or long version. The short version contains crucial information around the energy, insulation, construction, installations and flood sensitivity of your home. In contrast, the long version includes data around soil, mobiscore, water quality, sewerage, renovation works, etc.
Sources: Construction & Housing, The Time, HLN, Flanders, Housing Pass Flanders
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