How does KLIKenHUUR work?

How does KLIKenHUUR work?

KLIKenHUUR is a website on which landlords can offer accommodation and on which you can view the availability of housing for free. In case you, as candidate tenant, want to respond to an available accommodation, you need to subscribe to the foundation KLIKenHUUR. The fee for this subscription is €35,- for a 3 month period. After subscribing, KLIKenHUUR connects candidate tenants and landlords. KLIKenHUUR solely fulfills this facilitating role.

With a subscription, you can respond to available accommodations for 3 months on the website KLIKenHUUR, with a maximum of 3 responses per week. This means that with one subscription, you’ll have a maximum of 39 responses.

There is a maximum of 15 responses per available accommodation. For this reason, there is a higher chance that you, as a candidate tenant, will find a suitable accommodation through KLIKenHUUR than through most of the alternative websites.

How does the procedure work?

A landlord places an ad on the website of KLIKenHUUR, including the selection criteria, and sets a final date until when candidate tenants can respond to the ad. When there are sufficient interested candidate tenants the following steps will be taken:  

1. The selection criteria will be applied and all candidate tenants that meet the criteria will be invited for a viewing;
2. After the viewing, candidate tenants can indicate whether they are interested in renting or not;
3. In case there are multiple interested candidate tenants, then based on the selection criteria there will be an order of candidate tenants that are eligible for a rental agreement. In case there is multiple candidate tenants that meet all criteria, there will be an independent draw;
4. The landlord will conclude a rental agreement with the selected candidate tenant;
5. After the rental agreement is concluded between the landlord and candidate tenant, the other candidate tenants will receive a message that states that the procedure has been completed correctly and that, unfortunately, they won’t receive a rental agreement for this accommodation;
6. The landlord receives an accountability document on which is stated how the procedure has been carried out.

Selection criteria: read more.

Municipality reporting point:

On July 1^st 2023 the law Goed Verhuurderschap came into effect. This law offers better protection to tenants and home seekers against undesirable behavior of landlords. This legislation obliges the municipality to set up a reporting point before the 1^st of January 2024 where tenants and others can report undesirable behavior by landlords. Tenants can also ask questions regarding their rental. The municipality can use these notifications for enforcement. Moreover, the municipality can introduce new regulations regarding rental.