Amstelveen
Sell your car in Amstelveen
Amstelveen runs on postings. People arrive for three years, four years, five, and when the contract ends the house, the school place and the car all have to be settled in the same fortnight. The car is the part we take off your list.
Noord-Holland
Selling a car in Amstelveen
Amstelveen sits immediately south of Amsterdam and has one of the most international populations in the country. KLM's head office is here. So is the International School of Amsterdam, and the town has long had a substantial Japanese community with its own school and shops. The Zuidas business district is a few minutes north and Schiphol a few minutes west.
People here drive more than their neighbours in central Amsterdam do. There are driveways, there are garages, there are school runs and supermarket runs and a commute that the Amsteltram does not quite cover. Two cars to a household is ordinary. One of them is often doing very little, which is usually the one we hear about.
What makes Amstelveen different from the city next door is the calendar. Departures cluster around the end of the school year, and they are known about months in advance. That is an advantage, so use it. Ask for a figure while the date is still comfortably ahead of you, accept it when you are ready, and name the handover day yourself.
Worth knowing in Amstelveen
Rules at a local level can shift. For anything official, check the municipality's own site; each note below links straight to its source.
The permit is attached to the plate
A bewonersvergunning in Amstelveen covers one number plate, and it has to be a car you own or lease yourself. Once the sale is through, either switch the plate on the permit to the replacement car or end it with the municipality. Nothing happens automatically when the car leaves your name.
Parking permits (Gemeente Amstelveen, in Dutch)The Amsterdam zone starts just up the road
Amstelveen itself has no environmental zone for passenger cars, so nothing restricts an older diesel here. Amsterdam's zone begins at the A10, which is close enough that plenty of Amstelveen owners run into it every week. Worth checking against your emission class if you drive north regularly.
Which cities have an environmental zone (milieuzones.nl, in Dutch)Lease cars and cars in a company name
A lease car is not yours to sell, however long you have driven it, because the lease company is the registered owner and the contract decides what happens at the end. The same goes for a car registered to your employer. Check the back of the kentekencard, the registration card: if your name is not the one on the registration, the sale has to go through whoever is.
Collection
Where we collect around Amstelveen
We collect from wherever the car sits: a drive in Elsrijk, a resident's bay in Randwijck, a garage under a block near the Stadshart. Two cars at the same address on the same afternoon is also fine, as long as both are registered to someone who will be standing there with their ID. Tell us the last day you need to keep driving and we work backwards from it.
Not on either list? Ask for an offer anyway. We buy cars everywhere in the Netherlands, in all twelve provinces.
Neighbourhoods and areas
- Stadshart
- Elsrijk
- Randwijck
- Westwijk
- Middenhoven
- Waardhuizen
- Groenelaan
- Bankras-Kostverloren
- Bovenkerk
Towns nearby
- Amsterdam Buitenveldert
- Ouderkerk aan de Amstel
- Uithoorn
- Aalsmeer
- Badhoevedorp
- Diemen
Questions from sellers in Amstelveen
We have two cars to sell. Does that work as one request?
Send them as two, one plate and one mileage each, because they are two valuations. We can still collect both on the same visit. Each car needs the person it is registered to present with their ID and both halves of its registration code.
Can we keep driving it until the week we fly?
Yes. Accept the offer whenever it suits you and give us the date you want the handover on. The car stays yours, insured and taxed, until we transfer it. Most people here pick the day after the container leaves.
The car is in my employer's name. Can I sell it anyway?
Not on your own. Whoever appears on the registration has to be part of the sale, because the RDW transfer runs on their registration code and their ID. If your employer wants to sell it, they can ask us directly.
Which papers and keys do I need to bring to the handover?
Four things. The registration card, the kentekencard. Both halves of the registration code, the tenaamstellingscode, which arrives with the card or separately by post. A valid passport or ID card. And every key that belongs to the car. If it is still on the old paper registration from before 2014, bring that in place of the card. The RDW transfer is our job, and the vrijwaringsbewijs is in your hand before we leave.
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