Netherlands won't manage to build 1 million homes in 10 years
2 years, 9 months ago

Netherlands won't manage to build 1 million homes in 10 years

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The Netherlands won't manage to build a million homes in the next ten years, people involved said to newspaper AD. According to Van Zanen, municipalities will need at least 2 billion euros extra per year to achieve the government's housing construction goals. According to Verhagen, it is impossible to build 100,000 new homes per year if you work traditionally. The housing associations believe they'll be able to achieve their part of 300,000 new homes in the coming decade, Martin van Rijn of umbrella organization Aedes said to the newspaper.

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Dutch home prices will climb 7.5% to average €520,000 next year: DNB
1 week, 4 days ago

Dutch home prices will climb 7.5% to average €520,000 next year: DNB

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Dutch home prices will continue to rise next year and the year after. On average, around 520,000 euros will be needed for a new home next year, De Nederlandsche Bank predicted. In addition, a well-functioning rental market is needed that could “function as a valve for the housing market.” DNB did note that first-time buyers are unlikely to see their …

€3 million home market is buoyant but renters have less choice
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1 month ago

€3 million home market is buoyant but renters have less choice

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In total 30 homes costing more than €3 million were bought in Amsterdam over the past year, according to research by real estate advisor CBRE. Amsterdam, the agency said, is developing into a “luxury hot spot” within the Netherlands, given that 80% of the top of the market deals are taking place in the Dutch capital. The low prices for …

Zuid-Holland to spend another 20 million euros on accelerating housing construction
1 month ago

Zuid-Holland to spend another 20 million euros on accelerating housing construction

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The province of Zuid-Holland will spend an extra 20 million euros on increasing the speed of housing construction. This money will be taken from the reserves and added to the subsidy arrangements for the next two years at the request of a majority of the Provincial States. Because it usually takes years before a plan is realized, political parties GroenLinks-PvdA, …

Eindhoven will need 20,000 more homes by 2030 to accommodate ASML growth
6 months ago

Eindhoven will need 20,000 more homes by 2030 to accommodate ASML growth

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Eindhoven will have to quickly adapt its housing construction plans to accommodate ASML’s planned growth in the city, Eindhovens Dagblad reports based on new research. The city will need almost 20,000 more homes by 2030 than previously thought, and its current focus on social and affordable housing will have to go because the highly educated, well-paid employees ASML attracts are …

Netherlands could create 60,000 homes by transforming office buildings near highways
6 months, 1 week ago

Netherlands could create 60,000 homes by transforming office buildings near highways

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The Netherlands can create homes for over 60,000 households by transforming office buildings on the edges of cities and close to highways, according to real estate advisor Colliers. Colliers identified 18 highway locations where the government could turn increasingly vacant office buildings into housing. “Although housing construction close to highways is still unusual, a project like The Mayor on the …

More million euro homes – based on more million euro debts
6 months, 3 weeks ago

More million euro homes – based on more million euro debts

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The number of Dutch homes worth €1 million has grown from just 14,000 to almost 200,000 in the past 10 years, according to property expert Calcasa. In its annual report, published on Thursday, Calcasa found that by the end of last year 197,000 homes in the Netherlands were valued at more than €1 million, accounting for 4% of the housing …

More million euro homes – based on more million euro debts
6 months, 3 weeks ago

More million euro homes – based on more million euro debts

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The number of Dutch homes worth €1 million has grown from just 14,000 to almost 200,000 in the past 10 years, according to property expert Calcasa. In its annual report, published on Thursday, Calcasa found that by the end of last year 197,000 homes in the Netherlands were valued at more than €1 million, accounting for 4% of the housing …

Homeseekers desperate for increasingly rare homes under €200,000
9 months, 1 week ago

Homeseekers desperate for increasingly rare homes under €200,000

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The Dutch housing market has a big problem - supply does not meet demand. Home seekers showed the most interest in homes under 200,000 euros last year. “With this data, you can see in black and white that there are unequal relationships between housing needs and the available supply throughout the Netherlands,” Funda director Joost Dop told AD. On average, …

Amsterdam to create 20,000 new homes in existing neighborhoods
10 months, 3 weeks 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 …

Dutch housing update: your options in the current market
1 year, 2 months ago

Dutch housing update: your options in the current market

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What is the latest on house prices? There are a few more homes coming on the market but it is still not what we hoped it would be, says Henk Jansen, founder of mortgage advisory group Expat Mortgages. “People are now overbidding again because there is high demand and low supply, although it is nothing like the situation last year,” …

Dutch housing update: your options in the current market
1 year, 2 months ago

Dutch housing update: your options in the current market

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What is the latest on house prices? There are a few more homes coming on the market but it is still not what we hoped it would be, says Henk Jansen, founder of mortgage advisory group Expat Mortgages. “People are now overbidding again because there is high demand and low supply, although it is nothing like the situation last year,” …

Do more to tackle housing shortage, European Commission tells Netherlands
1 year, 6 months ago

Do more to tackle housing shortage, European Commission tells Netherlands

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The Netherlands needs to do more to tackle its housing shortage, the European Commission said in its annual advice to member states. There are too many obstacles holding back investments in housing constructions, and the Dutch government is far from reaching its targets, the Commission said. “The private rental market is relatively small, which results in a limited supply of …

New housing construction way below Cabinet targets; Plans for 130K homes in Brabant
1 year, 9 months ago

New housing construction way below Cabinet targets; Plans for 130K homes in Brabant

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Eight of the 12 Dutch provinces are hopelessly behind in achieving their targets for housing construction, according to research by the Economic Institute for Construction. Noord-Holland managed around 17,000 new homes in 2021, also well below the Cabinet’s 22,000 target for the province. The national government wants 100,000 new homes built yearly to solve the housing shortage. 130,600 homes in …

Housing construction at highest level in decade; Still 26% below gov't target
1 year, 10 months ago

Housing construction at highest level in decade; Still 26% below gov't target

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Last year, the number of new homes completed was the highest in ten years. But it was still well below the Cabinet’s target of 100,000 new homes per year. In total, over 74,000 new homes were created in the Netherlands last year, an increase of 0.9 percent. The Economic Institute for Construction reported last week that it expects fewer homes …

Over 17,000 social housing units built last year, but rising construction costs are problematic
2 years, 1 month ago

Over 17,000 social housing units built last year, but rising construction costs are problematic

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Dutch social housing corporations built 17,168 homes last year, an increase of 13 percent compared to 2020. The organization representing the associations, Aedes, said on Thursday that rising construction costs may dampen their members’ lofty ambitions to build more new homes over the long term. The number of units built last year includes more multi-family homes and fewer single-family homes. …

Building flexible homes going more slowly than government hoped
2 years, 3 months ago

Building flexible homes going more slowly than government hoped

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The number of flexible homes in the Netherlands is increasing, but not at the speed the government hoped it would to tackle the housing shortage. Last week, the government announced it plans to build 7,500 flexible homes this year and 15,000 each in 2023 and 2024 to help solve the crisis in asylum reception. “If we want to achieve this, …

Netherlands needs 10,000 new starter homes per year, says homeowners group
2 years, 4 months ago

Netherlands needs 10,000 new starter homes per year, says homeowners group

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The Netherlands needs a minimum of 10,000 new starter homes at a maximum sales price of 260,000 euros, said Dutch homeowners association VEH in an appeal to Public Housing Minister Hugo de Jonge. The association was calling upon the minister because it believes that young people should have new opportunities to enter the housing market. De Jonge wants to build …

Big cities to push Dutch population growth in coming years
2 years, 5 months ago

Big cities to push Dutch population growth in coming years

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It is especially in the large and medium-sized cities that the population will continue to grow in the coming years, according to researchers from Statistics Netherlands and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. The researchers expect almost 70 percent of the population growth to happen in municipalities with 100,000 inhabitants or more. “They are also a major attraction for immigrants, including …

Dividing bigger homes could create 500,000 new ones in Netherlands
2 years, 6 months ago

Dividing bigger homes could create 500,000 new ones in Netherlands

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Dividing existing homes in the Netherlands could create up to or more than half a million additional independent homes, according to a housing market analysis by BLG Wonen, a subsidiary of the Volksbank. BLG calculated how many owner-occupied homes with a usable surface of over 150 square meters or a plot of 750 square meters are occupied by two or …

Far fewer housing construction permits issued in first quarter
2 years, 7 months ago

Far fewer housing construction permits issued in first quarter

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While the construction sector in the Netherlands had a good first quarter of 2022 with a higher turnover, the number of permits for housing construction issued dropped significantly, Statistics Netherlands reported. Permits were issued for the construction of some 16,600 homes - almost 13 percent less than a year earlier. The number of construction permits issued is a good indicator …

The Netherlands has 143,000 homes that would cost more than €1 million
2 years, 7 months ago

The Netherlands has 143,000 homes that would cost more than €1 million

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The Netherlands has an increasing number of homes valued at more than €1 million and they now account for 3% of the total housing stock, according to real estate data company Calcasa. Most million euro homes are in Amsterdam – some 18,550 in total – and 583 are concentrated on the Keizersgracht, which has the most €1 million plus homes …

The new government has plans to get the housing market moving
2 years, 8 months ago

The new government has plans to get the housing market moving

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Plenty of things have been happening on the housing market since the start of the year, when the Netherlands got a new government. Investors Local councils have already been taking action to try to loosen the grip of the private sector on the housing market – for example by stopping investors buying up cheaper homes and renting them out. The …

National housing shortage to worsen in the coming years: Researchers
2 years, 10 months ago

National housing shortage to worsen in the coming years: Researchers

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The housing shortage in the Netherlands will likely increase for at least three years, experts at consultancy firm Capital Value expect. For example, housing associations could build 250,000 social homes annually if the landlord levy is completely abolished, the researchers suggest. The bank calculated that the new construction of around 14,000 new mid-range rental homes per year is financially feasible …

More than 79,000 new homes planned for The Hague region
3 years ago

More than 79,000 new homes planned for The Hague region

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Over 79,000 new homes will be built in the Haaglanden region in the coming years, including more social housing units. The housing shortage in the region is continuing to increase and the need to build new homes is great, according to the parties involved. In order to ensure that sufficient housing is available by 2030, we are substantially adding more …

Housing corporations completed about 15,000 new homes last year
3 years ago

Housing corporations completed about 15,000 new homes last year

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Housing corporations built 15,199 new homes in the Netherlands last year. Most of the homes are social housing and built in places where, according to Aedes, many people are looking for affordable homes. In 2013, when the landlord levy was introduced, housing corporations still built almost 30,000 homes. The housing corporations want to increase their production to 25,000 new homes …

Fewer office conversions, but over 80,000 new homes were created last year
3 years, 1 month ago

Fewer office conversions, but over 80,000 new homes were created last year

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Fewer homes were developed in empty offices and other redundant buildings last year, according to new figures from national statistics agency CBS. Even though there were fewer conversions, the number of new homes created in the Netherlands last year reached 80,200 – well above the government’s target of 75,000, the home affairs ministry said. Square metres In July, real estate …

Fewer office conversions, but over 80,000 new homes were created last year
3 years, 1 month ago

Fewer office conversions, but over 80,000 new homes were created last year

Dutch News  

Fewer homes were developed in empty offices and other redundant buildings last year, according to new figures from national statistics agency CBS. Even though there were fewer conversions, the number of new homes created in the Netherlands last year reached 80,200 – well above the government’s target of 75,000, the home affairs ministry said. Square metres In July, real estate …

Housing market milestone: Netherlands now has 8 million homes
3 years, 4 months ago

Housing market milestone: Netherlands now has 8 million homes

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The Dutch housing market reached an important milestone in June - the 8 millionth home was added to the Netherlands' housing stock, Statistics Netherlands reported on Thursday. A total of 39 thousand homes were added to the Netherlands' housing stock in the first six months of 2021. In the war years, the housing stock decreased by 104 thousand homes on …

Renovating empty shops can create thousands of homes: Realtors group
3 years, 5 months ago

Renovating empty shops can create thousands of homes: Realtors group

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Converting vacant stores into residential housing can create 6,500 homes in the coming years, the realtors association NVM stated. NVM Business chair Sander Heidinga described the idea as, "A very interesting and realistic task." Heidinga said he believes up to 800 thousand square meters of vacant space is available in the Netherlands due to empty stores. As a result, ABN …

Next gov't needs to invest billions into home construction, Interior Min. said
3 years, 6 months ago

Next gov't needs to invest billions into home construction, Interior Min. said

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The next Dutch Cabinet must invest 20 billion euros on housing and infrastructure projects, Interior Minister Kajsa Ollongren said in a letter to Parliament. Research previously showed that provinces and municipalities lack approximately 13.7 billion euros to build enough in the coming years. Last year, a report from the Ministry of the Interior showed that 845,000 new homes will have …

First ever 3D-printed house in Netherlands welcomes its first tenants
3 years, 7 months ago

First ever 3D-printed house in Netherlands welcomes its first tenants

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The tenants of the first ever 3D-printed concrete house in the Netherlands received keys to their new home on Friday. It is the first legally habitable property with load-bearing walls made using 3D-printing technology, according to TU/Eindhoven. By building in an industrial way, but at the same time providing custom designs, we think we can really make a contribution to …

Netherlands reveals plans for 150,000 more social housing units
4 years, 3 months ago

Netherlands reveals plans for 150,000 more social housing units

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Minister Kasja Ollongren of Home Affairs, the association of Dutch municipalities VNG, and the association for housing corporations Aedes agreed to work together to accelerate the construction of 150 thousand social rental homes. The parties also agreed to build 10 thousand flexible homes in the next two years, and to stimulate the construction of mid-market rentals and cheap owner-occupied homes. …

Quarter of Dutch homeowners unhappy with their home
4 years, 4 months ago

Quarter of Dutch homeowners unhappy with their home

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A quarter of homeowners in the Netherlands are dissatisfied with their home, according to a survey among 1,028 people by Kadasterdata.nl. The main cause for dissatisfaction is the purchase price, with about 10 percent of the homeowners saying they paid too much for their home, RTL Z reports Drenthe residents are most negative about their purchased home, with 21 percent …

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