Risk report for property buyers · Germany
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Risk Report
Beispielstraße 12, 10115 Berlin · Generated 2026-05-26
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Key Insights
Sample report cover (anonymised).
Three ways to start
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Upload one WEG protocol or one Exposé and get a risk report — no payment, no account. Great way to try it out.
Single document
€ · per document
One document, any type
Only one document to check — Grundbuch, Teilungserklärung, a Hausgeld statement or another? One document, one risk report.
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All your documents
All your documents together — one risk report in plain English, usually within minutes. One PDF, by email.
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Free checks a single document. The full report reads all your documents together and cross-checks them.
| Document | Free | Full report |
|---|---|---|
| Exposé | ✓ | ✓ |
| Grundbuch | — | ✓ |
| Teilungserklärung (incl. amendments) | — | ✓ |
| WEG-Protokolle | ✓ | ✓ |
| Energieausweis | — | ✓ |
| Hausgeldabrechnung | — | ✓ |
| Wirtschaftsplan | — | ✓ |
| Wohnflächenberechnung | — | ✓ |
How it works
From order to report in three steps.
01
Pay
€ via Stripe. Card or SEPA. We never see your card details.
02
Upload
Upload your Grundbuch, Teilungserklärung, WEG-Protokolle (3+ years recommended) and further documents as PDFs — up to 50 MB per file.
03
Receive the report
One consolidated PDF by email. Red, yellow and green flags with references to the source page in your originals.
Contents
What's in the report.
The deliverable
One consolidated PDF.
Cover page with overall risk rating, then per-document red, yellow and green flags with source-page citations. One document for you, your family, and your lawyer.
~250
Pages read
~25
Page report
1
PDF by email
Document 1
Exposé
Asking price, Hausgeld, commission, tenancy and energy figures from the agent’s brochure — cross-checked against the legal documents.
Document 2
Grundbuch
Owners, encumbrances (Nießbrauch, Wegerechte, Vorkaufsrechte), mortgages. Detects cancelled entries (gerötet) — commonly missed. All four sections.
Document 3
Teilungserklärung
Voting rules, transfer-fee clauses, rental restrictions, Bauträger-Selbstkontrahierung, Sondernutzungsrechte.
Document 4
WEG-Protokolle
Sonderumlagen, lawsuits, manager changes, deferred maintenance, reserve-fund trajectory. Multi-year — each agenda item assessed.
Document 5
Energieausweis
Energy class, end-energy value and heating type — Bedarf or Verbrauch. Flags heating costs and possible GEG modernisation duties.
Document 6
Hausgeldabrechnung
The maintenance reserve and its trend, your unit's Nachzahlung or Guthaben, and any flagged Sonderumlage — the WEG's financial health.
Document 7
Wirtschaftsplan
The forward annual budget: planned costs, reserve contribution and the new monthly Hausgeld you'll inherit going forward — plus any planned Sonderumlage.
Document 8
Wohnflächenberechnung
The Wohnfläche under the WoFlV — the basis of the price per m². We check whether the balcony or terrace was counted above the standard quarter, and whether the area matches the listing.
Difference
What Kaufscan does differently.
Traceable
A source on every flag
Every flag points to the page or section in the original PDF. You — or your lawyer — verify each point in 30 seconds, instead of trusting unsourced claims.
Concrete
Numbers, not just warnings
We pull out the amounts: a voted special assessment (Sonderumlage), an open mortgage, the reserve-fund balance. You see the magnitude — not just a red icon.
Bilingual
Report in German or English
The same report in both languages — for international buyers and investors who would otherwise have German documents translated.
Reliable
A practitioner rule library, not just an LLM
The AI extracts the data; fixed rules from real-world practice assign the risk. The result is consistent and repeatable — not a model that guesses differently each time.
Decision-ready
One PDF, not a wall of text
A cover page with the overall read, then red/yellow/green per document. Around 250 pages become a usable overview — not 30 pages of prose.
Data protection
Hosted in the EU
Your documents are stored on servers in the EU and processed under European data-protection law (GDPR).
Background
Why Kaufscan exists.
Buying a flat in Germany typically means a PDF stack from the agent: a 40-page Grundbuch, a Teilungserklärung with amendments, several years of WEG-Protokolle. About 250 pages of dense administrative German.
Most buyers work through them over a few evenings — with a notepad, a dictionary, sometimes with the help of friends who've done this before. Some risks get found that the agent didn't mention. Others surface only later, when the Notar brings them up in passing. A few stay hidden.
Kaufscan does this slow work: read 250 pages, mark the inconsistencies, distil what matters into a manageable summary. So the conversation with your lawyer is about what's actually important — not about the fact that something is in Abt. II at all.
Honest
What Kaufscan is — and isn't.
What it is
- · A technical risk analysis of your property documents.
- · A thorough first pass — usually more thorough than what most buyers manage on their own.
- · With source-page citations, so you (or your lawyer) can verify each flag in 30 seconds.
What it isn't
- · Not legal advice. We are not a Rechtsdienstleister within the meaning of the German RDG.
- · Not a substitute for a notarial or lawyer review of the Kaufvertrag.
- · Not infallible. The report is generated with AI assistance — before any purchase decision, cross-check the original PDF against the flagged sections.
Order
Report for €
You'll be redirected to Stripe to pay. The upload page comes immediately after.
Common questions
What you should know.
What if I'm missing a document? +
Upload what you have. The report is per-document, so you'll just be missing those sections. Most buyers don't have all years of WEG-Protokolle — that's normal.
Is this legal advice? +
No. Kaufscan is a technical document analysis, not Rechtsdienstleistung within the meaning of the RDG. We surface risks a careful reader would catch — we don't tell you whether to buy. Always have a Rechtsanwalt or Notar review the final Kaufvertrag.
How accurate is the AI? +
Every flag includes a citation to the page in your source PDF, so you (or your lawyer) can verify it in 30 seconds. We test the pipeline against real German documents and an internal eval suite. AI can still miss things — treat the report as a thorough first pass, not a substitute for human review of the most important sections.
What about my data? +
Hosting and storage of your documents happen in the EU. AI processing, transactional email and payment are handled by US providers under EU Standard Contractual Clauses; your content is contractually never used for model training. Your documents are deleted within 30 days. Details on request: [email protected].
Refund policy & right of withdrawal? +
You have a 14-day right of withdrawal under German consumer law. Because Kaufscan is a digital service typically wanted right away, the order form asks you to consent to immediate processing — once the finished report has been emailed, the right of withdrawal lapses (§ 356(5) BGB).
In addition: if you change your mind before uploading any documents, we refund. If the analysis fails for technical reasons (we can't read your PDF, our system errors out), we refund the full €.
Can I get an invoice for my Steuerberater? +
Yes — Stripe issues a proper Rechnung after payment. Kleinunternehmer per § 19 UStG, no VAT charged.
Magazine
From the magazine.
June 12, 2026
Reading a Teilungserklärung: 5 Red Flags Before You Buy a German Condo
The Teilungserklärung is the condo's constitution — it defines what you actually own and the rules you inherit. These five clauses decide how freely you can sell, let, and renovate, and what the community can cost you.
June 10, 2026
Reading a Grundbuch: 5 Red Flags Before You Buy German Property
The Grundbuch (land registry) records what really burdens a property. These five entries in sections II and III are the ones buyers should know — and why telling cancelled rights from active ones decides everything.
June 8, 2026
Reading a WEG-Protokoll: 5 Red Flags Before You Buy a German Condo
Before buying a condominium in Germany, read the HOA meeting minutes carefully. These five red flags reveal expensive risks — and what buyers should check first.
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