The Hague
Sell your car in The Hague
The ministries, the embassies and the international courts bring people to The Hague on terms that have an end date written into them. The car arrived with the posting and it has to be gone before the flight. That is the part we can take care of.
Zuid-Holland
Selling a car in The Hague
A posting here comes with a calendar somebody else wrote. The lease on the house ends, the removal firm has a date, the children's school year finishes, and every one of those is immovable. The car is the only item on the list with no fixed appointment, which is exactly why it ends up unresolved in the final week.
Start it earlier than feels necessary. Handing a car over while you are still living at the address is simple: you are there, your ID is there, the kentekencard is in the drawer where you left it. Doing the same thing from Nairobi or Ottawa three weeks later is a different undertaking entirely, and it usually involves asking a colleague for a favour.
The cars themselves tend to be in good shape. A second car used for the school run and the weekend. Something bought new on arrival and barely driven since, because the tram goes almost everywhere anyone here needs to go. A full dealer history is common. So is a set of winter tyres in the cellar that you had forgotten about.
Worth knowing in The Hague
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 diesel zone in the centre
The Hague keeps the lower diesel emission classes out of a zone covering the city centre, and there is a second zone around the Scheveningen harbour. Petrol cars are not affected by either. If you have an older diesel, the municipality's page lets you check your own plate against the rule before you assume anything.
Low emission zones in The Hague (Municipality of The Hague)The permit does not end itself
A residents' permit here is registered against your number plate. After a sale you can put another car's plate on it or end it, and the municipality's own page sets out how and what it costs. Deal with it in the same week as the transfer, so you are not paying for a permit no car of yours can use.
Changing the plate on your parking permit (Municipality of The Hague)CD plates and tax free imports
A car on diplomatic plates sits in a separate registration category, and a car brought into the country under a diplomatic or expat tax exemption can carry Dutch tax consequences the moment it is sold on the open market. Neither is a reason not to ask. Both are reasons to mention it in your first message, so we can give you a straight answer early.
Collection
Where we collect around The Hague
Collection covers the whole city, from the Statenkwartier and Benoordenhout out to Scheveningen, Ypenburg and Leidschenveen. The older streets are tight and the parking is permit controlled, so tell us roughly where the car usually stands and whether you will be there. If the handover has to happen on one specific afternoon between two other appointments, say which one when you accept.
Not on either list? Ask for an offer anyway. We buy cars everywhere in the Netherlands, in all twelve provinces.
Neighbourhoods and areas
- Centrum
- Statenkwartier
- Benoordenhout
- Archipelbuurt
- Bezuidenhout
- Scheveningen
- Ypenburg
- Leidschenveen
- Loosduinen
Towns nearby
- Rijswijk
- Voorburg
- Leidschendam
- Wassenaar
- Delft
- Zoetermeer
Questions from sellers in The Hague
I leave in five weeks. Is that enough time?
Comfortably. Ask now, agree a handover date that falls before you deregister at the gemeente, and keep the kentekencard and both halves of the registration code somewhere you will not pack them by accident. Those two pieces of paper are the only part of this that cannot be replaced quickly.
The car is on CD plates. Will you buy it?
Diplomatic plates run through their own registration route, so the honest answer is that it depends on the car. Tell us in your first message and we will say yes or no quickly, with the reason. Guessing is worse for both of us.
My diesel cannot enter the centre. Does that lower the offer?
The zone itself does not. What the emission class does is narrow the group of people who want the car next, and that is already in the market price we work from. The sale and the RDW transfer are unaffected either way.
What do I do with the vrijwaringsbewijs once I have it?
It is the receipt proving the car has left the register under your name, printed at the moment the transfer goes through. Keep it somewhere safe. Your responsibility for the car, road tax and fines included, ends at the date and time shown on it. The road tax, the motorrijtuigenbelasting, stops by itself, and the Belastingdienst, the Dutch tax authority, repays what you had paid in advance. Tell your insurer too, so the policy closes with it.
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