The owner-seller of an immovablemay accept or refuse any promise to purchase presented to him. He may also choose to present a couter-proposal.

The first purpose of te counter-proposal is to signify to the buyer that his promise to purchase has been rejected. It also allows the seller to qualify his refusal with a new propsal that would be acceptable to him.

The counter-proposal may be used to include or exclude certain items, to change the selling price or simply to further clarify the offer.

Any counter-proposal should include a reasonable deadline (usually between 24 and 48 hours) by which the counter-proposal must be refused or accepted.

If the counter-proposal is accepted, the immovable will be considered sold, although the transaction will only become official at the signing of the act of sale.

However, the transaction cannot be completed as long as all of the condtions of the contract have not been fulfilled.