{"id":9063,"date":"2022-07-01T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reyns-advocaten.be\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2026-06-26T11:36:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:36:37","slug":"nieuw-antiwitwasreglement-voor-vastgoedmakelaars-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reyns-advocaten.be\/en\/nieuw-antiwitwasreglement-voor-vastgoedmakelaars-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New Anti-Money Laundering Regulation for real estate agents in force as of 1 July 2022. What changes for you as a real estate agent?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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1 July 2022<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Royal Decree of 1 April 2022<\/a> was recently published in the Belgian Official Gazette, approving the regulations implementing the Act of 18 September 2017 on the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing and on restricting the use of cash, with regard to real estate agents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new Anti-Money Laundering Regulations enter into force on 1 July 2022<\/strong> and thereby repeal the old 2013 regulations. They indicate how real estate agents must comply with their obligations under the anti-money laundering controls imposed on them<\/strong>, as set out in the currently applicable regulations, namely the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 18 September 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To whom do the anti-money laundering regulations apply?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Unlike the current regulations, the new regulations will apply only to real estate agents acting as intermediaries or property managers, and therefore not to real estate agents acting as syndics.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intermediaries and Property Managers\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, the regulations (Article 1, 2\u00b0) link the definition of real estate agent to Article 5, \u00a7 1, 30\u00b0 of the Anti-Money Laundering Act (the real estate agents referred to in Article 2, 5\u00b0 and 7\u00b0, of the Act of 11 February 2013 organizing the profession of real estate agent, who are registered on the roll or on the list referred to in Article 3 of the same Act or on the roll or on the list referred to in Article 3 of the Act of 11 May 2003 establishing the federal councils of land surveyor experts;<\/em>), <\/em>and no longer to Article 2, 4\u00b0 of the Act of 11 February 2013 organizing the profession of real estate agent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n