Notaire.be

What Notaire.be does

Notaire.be is the official consumer-facing portal of Fednot, the Royal Federation of the Belgian Notariat (Koninklijke Federatie van het Belgisch Notariaat vzw), a non-profit association headquartered in Brussels that represents the country's 1,113 notary offices. The portal serves Belgian citizens and businesses by providing information, digital tools, and services tied to notarial acts, with approximately 3.5 million citizens visiting notary offices annually across the federation's network. Notaire.be operates in Dutch, French, and English, covering the full Belgian market.

The platform runs an ecosystem of digital products: Izimi provides a secure digital vault for storing notarial acts in partnership with Notariële Zekerheid; Biddit is an online auction platform for publicly selling notarial properties; Vastgoedbarometer publishes property market analytics built on mandatory notarial transaction data; ManageMyBusiness and StartMySuccession serve business founders and succession planning clients; Immo Notaris covers real estate listings; and supplementary tools include Rekenmodules (calculators), Erfeniswijzer (inheritance guidance), Mijn Notariële Akten (personal archive), Notaris.jobs (recruitment), and NotarisTV (media). The technical architecture is a multi-product web platform with member-office integration points, transaction data aggregation for analytics, and consumer-facing identity/document storage.

The business model is structurally non-commercial: Fednot is a vzw (non-profit association) funded by member contributions from the 1,113 notary offices it represents. Notary fees are regulated by law and accrue to individual notary offices, not to Fednot. As a result, Fednot does not generate traditional revenue; its funding is essentially an operational budget drawn from a mandatory professional membership base, with the portal acting as a public service and member-support platform rather than a profit-generating venture.

Name

Notaire.be

Legal name

Koninklijke Federatie van het Belgisch Notariaat vzw (Fednot)

Website

https://notaire.be

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Notaire.be is the official consumer portal of Fednot, the Royal Federation of the Belgian Notariat, serving Belgian citizens with digital tools (Izimi, Biddit, ManageMyBusiness, StartMySuccession) and information, supported by a nationwide network of 1,113 notary offices.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Bruxelles

HQ country

Belgium

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Notary Fees (Erelonen): Notary fees charged for various legal services including property transactions, inheritance, marriage contracts, company formation, and other legal instruments. Fees are regulated by law.

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Notaire.be is the official consumer portal of Fednot, the Royal Federation of the Belgian Notary, providing citizens with information and digital tools for notarial services including property transactions, inheritance, marriage and family law, and company formation. The platform connects users to a nationwide network of 1,113 notary offices and offers proprietary digital services such as Izimi (secure document vault), Biddit (online property auctions), StartMySuccession (succession planning), and ManageMyBusiness (company incorporation).

Product overview

Notaire.be / Notaris.be is the official consumer-facing web platform of the Koninklijke Federatie van het Belgisch Notariaat (Fednot), representing the Belgian notariat. The platform functions as a portal connecting citizens with notary services and providing a suite of digital tools. The core product portfolio includes: the consumer information and notary search portal (notaris.be); document exchange via Izimi (digital vault); real estate transaction platforms Biddit and Immo Notaris; business formation and management via Manage My Business; succession planning with Start My Succession and the Erfeniswijzer; real estate market data via the Vastgoedbarometer; and a suite of online calculator modules for estimating costs related to property purchases, credits, and donations. The network encompasses approximately 1,113 notary offices across Belgium.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Izimi: Digital vault platform for secure document storage and sharing, compliant with Belgian privacy regulations.
• Biddit
• StartMySuccession
• ManageMyBusiness
• Vastgoedbarometer
• Immo Notaris
• Notaris.jobs
• NotarisTV

Products and services

• Izimi

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• IzimicoreOthersA personal digital vault developed by the Belgian notary federation (Fednot) for secure document storage and sharing. Compliant with Belgian privacy regulations and GDPR. Available as web app and mobile app for iOS and Android. Used for securely transmitting sensitive documents to notaries.
• BidditcoreOthersOnline sales platform of Belgian notaries for property transactions including online public auctions and private sales. Operated under the Fednot federation.
• StartMySuccessionminorOthersDigital tool for succession planning, allowing users to easily start their estate planning process online.
• ManageMyBusinessminorOthersBelgian platform for online constitution, modification, and dissolution of companies, associations, or foundations. Created by the notary federation.
• Koning Boudewijnstichting (King Baudouin Foundation)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative partner for certain brochures and publications. Some informational materials are created in cooperation with the foundation and can be ordered through their website.
• Notariële ZekerheidcoreOthersA solidarity fund (vzw) within the notary profession that voluntarily compensates victims of good-faith notarissen who have become insolvent. Also provides assistance to notaries in difficulties and supports notary institutions.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Others

• Zillow: Leading US residential real estate data and marketplace platform, comparable in function to the Vastgoedbarometer's role as a national real estate price index and consumer-facing data portal. Different geography but similar data-product thesis.

Broad incumbents

• LegalZoom: Established online legal services platform offering document preparation, business formation, and estate planning tools. Broader and not jurisdiction-specific to Belgium, but addresses the same SMB and consumer needs Fednot's ManageMyBusiness and StartMySuccession serve.
• DocuSign: Global digital agreement and e-signature infrastructure platform. Adjacent to Fednot's Izimi and digital act capabilities, providing the underlying authentication technology that competes with or enables notary-grade digital signing.

Regional players

• Immoweb: Belgium's largest real estate listing platform, overlapping with Immo Notaris and Biddit on the property discovery side. Different business model (open marketplace vs. notary-exclusive listings) but addresses the same Belgian real estate audience.

Direct peers

• Bundesnotarkammer: The federal chamber of German notaries, providing official services, professional coordination, and digital infrastructure for notarial acts in Germany. Closely comparable in regulatory function and federation structure to Fednot.
• Koninklijke Notariële Beroepsorganisatie (KNB): The Royal Dutch Professional Organisation of Notaries, the official body for Dutch notaries with a public-facing portal. Closest geographic and linguistic peer to Fednot, with overlapping Benelux regulatory traditions.
• The Notaries Society (England and Wales): Professional society representing notaries in England and Wales, providing member services, consumer information, and standards oversight. Comparable in mission as a professional body and information portal, though operating under a different regulatory regime.
• Conseil Supérieur du Notariat (Notaires de France): The national professional body representing French notaries and operating the official French notary portal. Most directly comparable to Fednot in mission, regulatory role, and consumer-facing portal model — just at national scale in France.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtiktok.com/@notaris.be
• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/notarisTVkfbn
• Facebookfacebook.com/notaris.be
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/notaire-be-fr
• Instagraminstagram.com/notaris.be

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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