Real Estate Factoids

Things I learned in The Netherlands: nobody knows what 'Staging a house for sale is'. I guess in NL people actually need to use their imagination when looking at a place. Then again, I didn't know what it was either until HGTV decided I needed to know there was a whole industry in it, run by musclebears. Also, the classic mortgage we in the US know best, by which you pay every month a certain amount for 30 years, which consists in the beginning mostly of interest on your loan and by the end is mostly principal, is actually almost never used in NL. Instead, there are multitude of mortgage products coupled to life-insurance, savings-accounts, and interest-only, but you have to bring a 30% lump sum. I had no idea.