A higher floor for every rental and every sale.
The law sets out how a home must be rented out and how a home is sold: criteria published in advance and a reason for every decision on a rental; a buyer's statutory protections, checks on both parties and a written agreement on a sale. Tenon makes that the only way either can run, and keeps a record that shows it did.
Compliance in the procedure, not after it
Since July 2023 the Wet goed verhuurderschap has set out how a home must be let, and municipalities enforce it. A sale has its own law: the Civil Code's protections for a buyer of a home — the reflection period, the written agreement and its registration — and the money-laundering act's checks on the parties. Most offices meet all of it by habit and paperwork: a checklist completed, a file kept in case someone asks.
Tenon builds those obligations into the procedure itself. Each decision is made against rules cited to the law, each step is recorded as it happens, and every gate is a person's act — nothing is decided by the software alone. A rental can't skip a step and a sale can't be awarded before its checks, because the procedure has no path around them. Compliance isn't checked afterwards; it's how the work runs.
Tenon covers the obligations it encodes, and the scope is published. Some duties, such as the rental deposit cap, remain with the agency's own systems; the money-laundering check itself is done in the office's own tool — Tenon records that it was done, and waits for it.
What your members get
Two rulebooks — 92 Rental rules and 77 Sale rules — each rule citing the article of law or the convention it comes from, open to read rule by rule.
The Rental procedure the Wet goed verhuurderschap requires, and the Sale from the seller's declaration to the transfer at the notary, run in order and recorded as each decision is made.
An answer to "why was I refused?" that points to the law, not to an opinion — and, on a sale, statements the law attaches to a purchase, never a computed figure about what a buyer may borrow.
What the profession gets
A shared, public record that rentals and sales followed their procedure, verifiable by anyone without access to personal data, with closed sales published at their price. And a Dutch listing profile for both, built on the international RESO standard, ready for a Dutch body to adopt and maintain on the profession's behalf.
What municipalities and regulators get
A way to check the order of events in a rental or a sale without requesting files, and without Tenon or the agency having to be trusted.
How we work with institutions
- ReviewBoth rulebooks are open for review by your legal and policy staff, with every rule traced to its source.
- SupportA statement that you support the approach, so the software your members already use can integrate it with confidence.
- EndorsementAfter a pilot with member offices, on their real rentals and sales, with results you can inspect.
Tenon is at release 1.1.0: a stable core, tested on a synthetic estate. The pilot with member offices is the next step.