Translation of leases and conveyances
from the capital to Esch-sur-Alzette and Diekirch
Agencies, managing agents and developers letting and selling to an international clientele. From a lease signed across two mother tongues to the owners' meeting, planning rules included.
1 h
To have the price
24 h
Interpreter at the notary office
2
Reads on every deed
70+
Working languages
What the property & construction sector sends us most often
The market is tight and the clientele largely expatriate: managers here for a few years, families attached to the European institutions, employees of the financial centre, and cross-border workers who end up buying on the far side of one of the three borders. Many leases are negotiated in English while the notarial deed is drawn up in French or in German. Every document the buyer or the tenant did not understand comes back later as a complaint.
Sales and preliminary agreements
Offers to purchase, preliminary sale agreements, conditions precedent, title deeds and notarial deeds.
Leases and inventories
Residential lease, commercial lease, short-term lease, meter readings, service charge statements and notices to quit.
Papers for a foreign notary office
Powers of attorney, certificates of ownership, civil status records and attestations intended for a notary in another country, produced in the form they expect.
Co-ownership
Founding deed, co-ownership rules, notices of meeting, budgets, calls for funds and minutes of general meetings.
Certificates and surveys
Energy performance certificate, technical inspection reports and the surveys annexed to the preliminary agreement.
Planning and site work
Building permit applications, planning information, contractors' quotations, acceptance of works and site meeting minutes.
The property & construction sector in a country where three languages coexist
The country's property market feeds on constant arrivals: executives posted for a few years, officials of the European institutions, staff of the financial centre, long-settled families, and a cross-border clientele that looks over the line when prices climb. The upshot is that a lease is very often signed between two people who do not share a mother tongue, and an owners' meeting sometimes runs in three languages around one table.
The paper trail is long and we cover it end to end: lease and addenda, co-ownership rules, meeting minutes, sale deed, title deed, land registry extract, energy performance certificate, building permit. Districts under transformation bring their own vocabulary, from Kirchberg to the reclaimed grounds of Belval, and the planning rules there read with terms nobody improvises. When a document has to travel abroad, a title deed or a valuation for instance, the sworn version exists, with the signature legalised if the receiving authority insists.
A signature or a joint inventory of fixtures is decided within the hour. An interpreter in the room stops the misunderstanding from coming back two years later as a registered letter nobody wanted to write.
- Residential lease, commercial lease, addendum
- Conveyance, proof of ownership, cadastral plan
- Handover of keys and the meter readings
- Co-ownership rules and meeting resolutions
When the spoken word counts as much as the written one
Misunderstandings always lodge in the same places: the day of signature, the joint reading of an inventory, the vote on works at a general meeting.
Signing at the notary office
A party present who cannot read the language of the deed needs the whole of it rendered out loud during the reading, for a sale as much as for a mortgage loan.
Joint inventory of fixtures
Record taken on moving in or moving out: what is not written down that day gets argued about a year later, with no witness.
Co-owners' general meeting
A sitting where some of the co-owners live outside the country: works to vote on, charges to explain.
Site meeting
Following the works and accepting them with a contractor whose crews come from another country.
A buyer trained elsewhere reads a preliminary agreement with the reflexes of their home country, and those do not transfer. The commitment takes effect on signature, time limits start running, and the technical annexes carry consequences that can be costed. Better to translate those papers before signature than after: the surprises hide in the annexes, rarely in the body of the deed.
Four steps between your upload and the handover
A single project manager follows your property & construction file from the first message to the handover, so that no instruction gets lost on the way.
- 01
Send the document as it is
A phone snapshot will do, badly framed included. For a spoken assignment, give us the date, the address of the appointment and the two languages involved.
- 02
Price and deadline inside one hour
You receive the price, the handover date and the route chosen: sworn where an authority requires it, standard in every other case. No commitment attached.
- 03
A linguist from the field takes it on
The text goes to someone who uses property & construction terminology every day, and a second linguist reads it again before anything leaves us.
- 04
File delivered or interpreter on site
The file reaches you electronically. The stamped copy follows by registered post when the recipient insists on it, and the interpreter turns up at the agreed address.
A signature planned with a foreign buyer?
A sworn interpreter present at the notary office, annexes translated before the date you have set.
What changes the moment a property & construction file reaches us
Sworn status is verified at booking
A notarial deed calls for a sworn interpreter. Their registration is checked the day the date is held: a last-minute check leaves no room to move if the person turns out to be unavailable.
A postponed date breaks nothing
Completion appointments move, that is the nature of the trade. A message with the new date is enough: we shift the interpreter and nothing has to be requested again on your side.
The specialist for the field, not the first one free
A specialised text goes to someone who practises in that area. A tight handover date does not suspend the rule: it only shortens the time we have to find the right person.
Confidentiality signed before anything is opened
Everyone involved signs a confidentiality undertaking before reaching your file. Documents sit on infrastructure located inside the European Union and are erased on a written request.
The approved quote is the invoice
Nothing is added later. Revision, layout work and delivery are inside the figure stated at the outset.
No travel charge
Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Differdange, Dudelange, Bettembourg, Mersch, Ettelbruck: the interpreter travels there without the journey being billed.
Frequently asked questions
Who books the interpreter, the notary office or the buyer?
Either, as long as the request comes in early. We need the date, the address of the appointment and the language of the party attending, nothing more. Allow twenty-four hours to line someone up on a common pair, longer on a rare language.
Is the sworn version of any use for a tenancy agreement?
Nothing requires it. The value lies elsewhere: a tenant given the lease and the building rules in a language they can read will no longer be able to plead a misunderstanding, whether the argument is about notice or about the service charge statement. A standard translation does the job. Sworn form only becomes useful if the document has to be produced before a judge.
Do you work for managing agents?
Yes. The constraint is the deadline for sending out the notices of meeting: everything that goes with them, agenda, draft budget, accounts for the year, has to be translated first. An interpreter can also attend the sitting. Some agents stop at the translated minutes, and that already puts an end to most complaints.
Do you translate the papers for a loan taken out abroad?
Regularly, in both directions: loan offer, amortisation table, mortgage mandate, insurance certificates. Those papers go to a financial translator, because a payment frequency, a rate or an early repayment clause rendered badly turns up later in a dispute.
Get your free quote within the hour
A document or a date is all we need. You get the price, the deadline and the form of certification Luxembourg authorities will expect. You decide afterwards.