Amsterdam to allow more home sharing in fight against housing shortage
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Amsterdam to allow more home sharing in fight against housing shortage

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Amsterdam will allow more home sharing in an attempt to make it easier for people to find somewhere to live in the very tight housing market. The city council agreed on Thursday to allow almost 6,000 additional permits for more than two people not from the same household to live together, Parool reports. D66 city councilor Suleyman Aslami is therefore pleased with the additional permits. The city implemented the permit obligation for converting a home into individual rooms due to concerns about tenant rights being violated and more nuisance reports from around shared homes.

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Amsterdam expands home seekers scheme to improve the flow of the housing market
3 weeks, 2 days ago

Amsterdam expands home seekers scheme to improve the flow of the housing market

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Amsterdam are going to help residents in their search for a suitable home and moving out. They will be given preference when searching for a different home and will keep their current rental price even if the new home is more expensive. Housing associations are also going to work together more often to make home switching more accessible. People using …

Housing permits surged in the Netherlands in 2024; Highest levels in a decade
1 month, 1 week ago

Housing permits surged in the Netherlands in 2024; Highest levels in a decade

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The number of building permits issued for new homes in the Netherlands surged by 21 percent in 2024 compared to the previous year, according to new data from the Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek. Zuid-Holland had the highest number of building permits issued in 2024, with nearly 18,000 new homes approved. In contrast, Drenthe saw the fewest permits issued, with …

Amsterdam to create 20,000 new homes in existing neighborhoods
1 year, 1 month ago

Amsterdam to create 20,000 new homes in existing neighborhoods

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Amsterdam is changing its housing construction strategy. Instead of building homes in business districts or creating new neighborhoods like in recent years, the city will create 20,000 new homes in existing neighborhoods that need more investment. This way, Amsterdam will remain a good and pleasant city for all its residents in the future.” With the densification, Amsterdam will also invest …

Amsterdam to crack down on landlords with unlawful room rentals
1 year, 6 months ago

Amsterdam to crack down on landlords with unlawful room rentals

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Amsterdam is planning a crackdown on landlords who infringe bylaws by offering students and individual renters accommodation via a group contract rather than individually, reports NOS. This practice, which can be used to avoid legal room limits and charge people too much for accommodation, has been banned in Amsterdam since April 2020. The NOS has conducted an investigation into people …

Amsterdam to crack down on landlords with unlawful room rentals
1 year, 6 months ago

Amsterdam to crack down on landlords with unlawful room rentals

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Amsterdam is planning a crackdown on landlords who infringe bylaws by offering students and individual renters accommodation via a group contract rather than individually, reports NOS. This practice, which can be used to avoid legal room limits and charge people too much for accommodation, has been banned in Amsterdam since April 2020. The NOS has conducted an investigation into people …

Encouraging sharing homes will help solve housing crisis, economists say
3 years, 1 month ago

Encouraging sharing homes will help solve housing crisis, economists say

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Making better use of the existing housing stock by changing the rules on sharing would go some way to solving the Dutch housing crisis, three economists from Maastricht University say in the latest issue of economics magazine ESB. Piet Eichholtz, Linde Kattenberg and Nils Kok say that government rules make it unattractive to share a home or rent out a …

Encouraging sharing homes will help solve housing crisis, economists say
3 years, 1 month ago

Encouraging sharing homes will help solve housing crisis, economists say

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Making better use of the existing housing stock by changing the rules on sharing would go some way to solving the Dutch housing crisis, three economists from Maastricht University say in the latest issue of economics magazine ESB. Piet Eichholtz, Linde Kattenberg and Nils Kok say that government rules make it unattractive to share a home or rent out a …

More homes in Amsterdam are free market rentals than owner-occupied
3 years, 1 month ago

More homes in Amsterdam are free market rentals than owner-occupied

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The buy-to-let and keep-to-let trend has rapidly grown in Amsterdam, to the extent that there are now more expensive free-market rentals in the city than owner-occupied homes. Over the past two years, some 10,000 owner-occupied homes turned into free-market rentals, Amsterdam said in a press release on its biennial Living in Amsterdam survey for 2021. We are building massively in …

Amsterdam cuts many urgent housing requests from high priority list
3 years, 4 months ago

Amsterdam cuts many urgent housing requests from high priority list

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Amsterdam simply does not have enough homes to house all its vulnerable residents. The city, therefore, made the "painful" decision that those temporarily living with someone else no longer qualify for "urgent" housing, alderman Jakob Wedemeijer told Trouw. By disqualifying people living with a family member or friend, the city is cutting the urgent housing requests by 70 percent, according …

The Hague also plans to block investors from buying homes to rent them
3 years, 4 months ago

The Hague also plans to block investors from buying homes to rent them

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Local politicians in The Hague are looking at how they can join Amsterdam and introduce real estate restrictions that would require home purchasers to live at the property for four years. In Amsterdam, the purchase protection plan would take effect for homes with an official WOZ valuation of up to 512,000 euros. "We are noticing that the purchase of existing …

Amsterdam to ban investors from buying cheaper properties to rent out
3 years, 4 months ago

Amsterdam to ban investors from buying cheaper properties to rent out

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Amsterdam city council plans to stop investors buying up cheaper properties and renting them out, when new legislation comes into force in January. New housing chief Jakob Wedemeijer plans to bring in the ban as soon as possible for the entire city. It would mean investors could not buy any property for less than €512,000 without a commitment to live …

Amsterdam to ban investors from buying cheaper properties to rent out
3 years, 4 months ago

Amsterdam to ban investors from buying cheaper properties to rent out

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Amsterdam city council plans to stop investors buying up cheaper properties and renting them out, when new legislation comes into force in January. New housing chief Jakob Wedemeijer plans to bring in the ban as soon as possible for the entire city. It would mean investors could not buy any property for less than €512,000 without a commitment to live …

Amsterdam hands out 1,275 Airbnb licences as tourism slowly gathers steam
4 years, 7 months ago

Amsterdam hands out 1,275 Airbnb licences as tourism slowly gathers steam

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Amsterdam city council has issued 1,250 permits to people who want to rent out their homes via Airbnb and similar platforms, even though there are thousands of adverts for holiday lets in the capital online. Since July 1, landlords have had to have a permit to rent their properties, and old restrictions, such as a 30 day per year maximum, …

Amsterdam hands out 1,275 Airbnb licences as tourism slowly gathers steam
4 years, 7 months ago

Amsterdam hands out 1,275 Airbnb licences as tourism slowly gathers steam

Dutch News  

Amsterdam city council has issued 1,250 permits to people who want to rent out their homes via Airbnb and similar platforms, even though there are thousands of adverts for holiday lets in the capital online. Since July 1, landlords have had to have a permit to rent their properties, and old restrictions, such as a 30 day per year maximum, …

Permits for just 77 new homes granted in Amsterdam in 2019 Q4
5 years ago

Permits for just 77 new homes granted in Amsterdam in 2019 Q4

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Amsterdam city council handed out permits for just 77 new homes in the final quarter of last year, down 95% on the previous year, according to an analysis by ABN Amro economists. In total, said Buijs, the number of permits for new housing fell by almost one fifth last year, to a total of 57,380. Last month, officials in Amsterdam …

Permits for just 77 new homes granted in Amsterdam in 2019 Q4
5 years ago

Permits for just 77 new homes granted in Amsterdam in 2019 Q4

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Amsterdam city council handed out permits for just 77 new homes in the final quarter of last year, down 95% on the previous year, according to an analysis by ABN Amro economists. In total, said Buijs, the number of permits for new housing fell by almost one fifth last year, to a total of 57,380. Last month, officials in Amsterdam …

Fewer owner-occupied homes in Amsterdam as investors buy-to-let
5 years, 1 month ago

Fewer owner-occupied homes in Amsterdam as investors buy-to-let

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For the first time in years, the number of owner-occupied homes in Amsterdam decreased in 2019. Despite 1,400 new owner-occupied homes being built last year, the total number of owner-occupied homes in the Dutch capital decreased from 139,300 in 2017 to 136,200 in 2019, according to figures the municipality released, Het Parool reports. The number of rental properties owned by …

Amsterdam Airbnb rules in violation of Housing Act: Council of State
5 years, 2 months ago

Amsterdam Airbnb rules in violation of Housing Act: Council of State

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Amsterdam's rule that allows residents to rent their homes to tourists for up to 30 days a year without a permit, as long as they report the rental to the municipality, is in violation of the Housing Act, the Council of State said in a ruling on Wednesday. Amsterdam is not allowed to exempt residents from the prohibition on renting …

Amsterdam slashes Airbnb rental period from 60 to 30 days
7 years, 2 months ago

Amsterdam slashes Airbnb rental period from 60 to 30 days

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Amsterdam city council is slashing the number of days people can rent out their homes via holiday rental platforms like Airbnb from 60 to 30 days from next year. At the end of last year, newspaper Trouw claimed almost 5,000 Amsterdam apartments, houses and houseboats are permanently rented out to tourists and a further 1,000 owners break other rules, such …

Amsterdam slashes Airbnb rental period from 60 to 30 days
7 years, 2 months ago

Amsterdam slashes Airbnb rental period from 60 to 30 days

Dutch News  

Amsterdam city council is slashing the number of days people can rent out their homes via holiday rental platforms like Airbnb from 60 to 30 days from next year. At the end of last year, newspaper Trouw claimed almost 5,000 Amsterdam apartments, houses and houseboats are permanently rented out to tourists and a further 1,000 owners break other rules, such …

Amsterdam to impose stricter daily limit on Airbnb rentals
7 years, 2 months ago

Amsterdam to impose stricter daily limit on Airbnb rentals

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The municipality of Amsterdam has decided to decrease the maximum number of nights a private home may be rented. According to the municipality, Amsterdam is home to at least 22 thousand vacation rentals locations and at least six thousand of them do not follow city regulations regarding home shares, hotel licensing, and Bed and Breakfast registrations. Data revealed last year …

Over 5000 Amsterdam homes permanently rented on Airbnb despite housing crisis
7 years, 3 months ago

Over 5000 Amsterdam homes permanently rented on Airbnb despite housing crisis

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Amsterdam is home to at least 6 thousand illegal Airbnb rentals - homes and rooms rented out to tourists on the site that don't comply with Amsterdam's rules on house sharing, Trouw reports based on studies by Amsterdam data analyst Nico van Gog and Airbnb data expert Murray Cox from New York. This breaks Amsterdam's rule of not renting your …

Amsterdam tackles housing shortage with 27,000 new homes in past four years
7 years, 3 months ago

Amsterdam tackles housing shortage with 27,000 new homes in past four years

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In an effort to deal with the housing shortage in Amsterdam, a massive 27 thousand new homes were built in the Dutch capital over the past four years of the city coalition's reign. The Amsterdam coalition aimed to build 5 thousand homes per year in its four year term. This ambition was more than met, with construction on an average …

Amsterdam Airbnb landlords find ways around tough new restrictions
7 years, 8 months ago

Amsterdam Airbnb landlords find ways around tough new restrictions

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Amsterdam residents renting out their homes on Airbnb, are finding ways to get around increasingly strict restrictions implemented by the municipality. Hundreds of Amsterdam rentals previously advertised as 'homes', are now listed as 'rooms', because the rules around renting out a room is less stringent, according to research by blogger Dirk Kloosterboer, AT5 reports. Last year the municipality implemented the …

Amsterdam housing prices leaped 23 percent in one year
8 years, 2 months ago

Amsterdam housing prices leaped 23 percent in one year

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Housing prices in Amsterdam increased a massive 23 percent last year, according to figures from the Dutch association of realtors NVM. The national average housing price increase was 9 percent, RTL Nieuws reports. Yet despite the great demand for housing in the Dutch capital, the number of homes sold in the city fell by almost 17 percent last year. To …

Airbnb, Amsterdam reach new deal to block illegal hotels
8 years, 3 months ago

Airbnb, Amsterdam reach new deal to block illegal hotels

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Amsterdam and Airbnb reached a new deal that is aimed at promoting "responsible and sustainable home sharing" and combating illegal hotels, the municipality of Amsterdam announced in a press conference. New measures in the rules include an automatic tracker on Airbnb that keeps track of how many days a home was rented out and Airbnb automatically removing troublemakers' ads from …

Amsterdam to be even harsher on illegal vacation rentals
8 years, 6 months ago

Amsterdam to be even harsher on illegal vacation rentals

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The city of Amsterdam is looking at tightening the rules surrounding vacation rentals - renting your home out to tourists. The city is also looking for ways to reduce the maximum period your house can be rented to tourists from 60 to 30 days per year. It is currently allowed for Amsterdam residents to rent their homes or rooms in …

Amsterdam getting 6,000 new low-rent homes
9 years, 9 months ago

Amsterdam getting 6,000 new low-rent homes

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The Amsterdam Tenants Association, housing corporations and the municipality set a goal of making apartments in the city more affordable for low- and middle-income groups. The aim of the agreement is the construction of 6,000 new social housing units over the next five years, with added emphasis on durability and energy efficiency, the city said in a statement this week. …

Amsterdammers break Airbnb rules: long lets with too many people
10 years, 6 months ago

Amsterdammers break Airbnb rules: long lets with too many people

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Amsterdammers are flouting the city council’s rules for letting their homes via Airbnb, the Volkskrant reported at the weekend. ‘Illegal lodgings and subletting has always gone on but Airbnb has changed everything,’ GertJan Bakker, of the city council’s illegal rental hotline, told the paper. ‘The council cuts one off and two more spring up in another part of the city.’ …

Expat housing quota is ridiculous
16 years, 6 months ago

Expat housing quota is ridiculous

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It will be interesting to see how Amsterdam city council proceeds with its ridiculous plan to slap a limit on the number of apartments in the city that can be rented out for short stays. Amsterdam has an extremely skewed housing supply: some three-quarters of the city’s housing is rental, and 86% of that is rent- controlled. This, they claim, …

Expat housing quota is ridiculous
16 years, 6 months ago

Expat housing quota is ridiculous

Dutch News  

It will be interesting to see how Amsterdam city council proceeds with its ridiculous plan to slap a limit on the number of apartments in the city that can be rented out for short stays. Amsterdam has an extremely skewed housing supply: some three-quarters of the city’s housing is rental, and 86% of that is rent- controlled. This, they claim, …

'Expats will be hit by rental quota'
16 years, 6 months ago

'Expats will be hit by rental quota'

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Amsterdam city council’s plans to put an upper limit on the number of short-stay apartments in the city will make it harder for expats to find somewhere to live, say landlords and developers. The council has decided to allocate short-stay licences for 1,350 apartments – meaning they can be rented out for periods of between one week and six months. …

'Expats will be hit by rental quota'
16 years, 6 months ago

'Expats will be hit by rental quota'

Dutch News  

Amsterdam city council’s plans to put an upper limit on the number of short-stay apartments in the city will make it harder for expats to find somewhere to live, say landlords and developers. The council has decided to allocate short-stay licences for 1,350 apartments – meaning they can be rented out for periods of between one week and six months. …

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