Seven things you need to know about home renovations in NL

1 week, 6 days ago

Personal loan for home renovation: 4 essential tips you need to know

Renovating your house can be expensive, and a personal loan may be the cash you need to make it happen. An unsecured loan referred to as a personal loan grants you the privilege of raising a certain amount of money for debt consolidation, clearing medical bills, or home improvement. These loans allow flexibility and rapid access to money, but one …

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

Dutch News

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 …

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1 month ago

To Buy or Not to Buy? Floople Experts Review Real Estate Trends in the Netherlands in 2024

NL Times

The Dutch economy and real estate market in the last year are marked by significant trends and shifting dynamics. From this vision, Floople was born—an innovative real estate aggregator designed to streamline the property search experience and provide transparent, user-friendly solutions tailored to everyone’s unique needs. Positive and Negative Trends in the Dutch Real Estate Market The Dutch housing market …

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1 month, 1 week ago

People are borrowing more to buy a house as prices rise

Dutch News

Rising house prices and a drop in mortgage interest rates have boosted the average new mortgage in the Netherlands to €346,572, according to mortgage advisory group De Hypotheker. Since then interest rates have gone down slightly and the amount people can borrow, based on the value of the property, has risen. Last week, family spending institute Nibud said with wages …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

To renovate an apartment — and not jack up the rent: These property owners have found a way

LA Times

Mariana Puche Hernandez in front of her apartment in East Los Angeles that’s been renovated and kept affordable by a local community land trust. A recent Times investigation found U.S. public pensions are investing billions of dollars into riskier real estate funds that acquire apartment buildings, renovate them and, on average, raise rent faster than other landlords in the surrounding …

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5 months ago

5 things to do before you start a home renovation

The Independent

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6 months, 1 week ago

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

NL Times

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 …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Rotterdam is buying and refurbishing unused retail properties to prevent vacancies

NL Times

The municipality of Rotterdam has started buying up unused retail properties at strategic locations to prevent vacancies, and to stop them from becoming rundown and creating a poorer experience for customers at neighboring properties. The buildings will be refurbished and transformed in an attempt to give the Rotterdam shopping districts "a boost." The fund was created in 2021, but Alderman …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Applying for personal loan for home renovation? Here are the key things to keep in mind

Live Mint

Engaging in home renovations involves substantial financial commitments, and a lack of preparation can undoubtedly result in setbacks. Alternatively, opt for a personal loan if you lack substantial home equity or prefer a more straightforward loan arrangement, although personal loans often come with higher interest rates. Although personal loans offer convenience for funding home improvements, opting for a short repayment …

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10 months, 1 week ago

Amsterdam hits housing snag: Construction falls short of target

NL Times

Despite starting construction on over 5,000 homes in 2023, Amsterdam fell short of its ambitious goal of 7,500 new units, highlighting ongoing challenges in addressing the city's chronic housing shortage. These factors, combined with uncertainties surrounding rental market legislation and high interest rates, have made investors cautious, especially in the mid-priced rental segment, where construction lagged behind expectations. Van Dantzig …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Amsterdam to create 20,000 new homes in existing neighborhoods

NL Times

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 …

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1 year ago

Don't let rush to build homes rob Netherlands of its beautiful architecture

NL Times

The Netherlands must be very careful that its enormous demand for new homes does not come at the expense of its beautiful architecture, Professor Aaron Betsky, a recognized American architecture critic, warned. “Housing means so much more than just making as many homes as possible for as little money as possible while making as much profit as possible.” Betsky mentioned …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Sustainability measures threatening thousands of pre-war buildings in the Netherlands

NL Times

Dutch buildings built before the Second World War are rapidly disappearing due to the housing crisis and the strict requirements to make homes more sustainable, AD reported on Wednesday. Karel Loeff, head of the Heemschut Heritage Association, explained that pre-war buildings are at risk due to uniform regulations that may not suit their preservation, such as gas removal or solar …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Renovation of old residential areas in Hohhot nearly completed

China Daily

A residential area looks brighter and cleaner after a recent revamp in Hohhot. The renovation of 309 old residential areas for the current year in Hohhot, capital city of North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, has been largely completed. From 2021 to 2022, 725 old residential areas have been upgraded, with another 309 due for the same before the end …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Dutch housing update: your options in the current market

Dutch News

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,” …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Dutch housing update: your options in the current market

Dutch News

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,” …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Do more to tackle housing shortage, European Commission tells Netherlands

NL Times

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 …

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1 year, 8 months ago

More signs that Dutch housing market is recovering: Mortgage adviser

NL Times

The Dutch housing market is showing more signs of recovering, De Hypotheker reported. The number of mortgage applications to purchase a home increased by 10 percent in the first quarter of 2023 compared to the previous quarter, Het Financieele Dagblad reports. The sharp decrease is mainly due to a huge fall in the number of mortgage applications for refinancing, -92 …

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1 year, 9 months ago

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

NL Times

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 …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Groningen officials call for cultural shift in quake compensation

Dutch News

The government needs to undergo a major cultural shift to properly compensate for the damage caused by earthquakes in Groningen province and to pay for shoring up damaged homes, senior provincial officials said on Monday. The call follows the publication on Friday of a highly damning report on the official response to the earthquakes, which said the interests of the …

Groningen Province

1 year, 9 months ago

Groningen officials call for cultural shift in quake compensation

Dutch News

The government needs to undergo a major cultural shift to properly compensate for the damage caused by earthquakes in Groningen province and to pay for shoring up damaged homes, senior provincial officials said on Monday. The call follows the publication on Friday of a highly damning report on the official response to the earthquakes, which said the interests of the …

Groningen Province

1 year, 10 months ago

Dutch housing update: house prices, transparency and borrowing

Dutch News

2023 has started up with a flurry of housing news, including a further drop in house prices and predictions of more to come. House prices are continuing to fall House prices fallen for five months in a row as rising interest rates reduce borrowing, according to the Dutch national statistics office CBS. ‘There has been a lot of negative news …

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1 year, 10 months ago

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

NL Times

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 …

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2 years ago

Dutch housing update: it's not all bad news for buyers and sellers

Dutch News

A round-up of the latest housing news, brought to you by Expat Mortgages. There is some good news for buyers 2022 may have been a challenging year for buyers and sellers but there is some good news out there, says Henk Jansen, founder of mortgage specialists Expat Mortgages. ‘In the first quarter of next year we will still have fewer …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Investors buy up fewer homes to rent out following tax increase

Dutch News

Private investors are buying up fewer houses to rent out than in previous years and in Rotterdam and Amsterdam their share of housing transactions has halved, according to new land registry figures. In the first half of this year, private landlords bought 5,200 properties, compared with 6,000 in the first half of last year and 8,000 four years ago. This …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Investors buy up fewer homes to rent out following tax increase

Dutch News

Private investors are buying up fewer houses to rent out than in previous years and in Rotterdam and Amsterdam their share of housing transactions has halved, according to new land registry figures. In the first half of this year, private landlords bought 5,200 properties, compared with 6,000 in the first half of last year and 8,000 four years ago. This …

Investors

2 years, 1 month ago

Netherlands to offer higher mortgages for energy efficient homes from 2024

NL Times

From 2024, Netherlands residents may be able to get a higher mortgage for an energy-efficient home than for a home with a lower energy label. According to Minister Hugo de Jonge for Housing, people who pay less for energy because their homes are well insulated, for example, can responsibly afford a higher mortgage. Currently, mortgage lenders look at the total …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Dutch housing update: prices are down, interest is up

Dutch News

A round-up of the latest housing news, brought to you by Expat Mortgages. House prices and interest rates There are now real signs that the overheated Dutch housing market is cooling down, as interest rates rise and buyers are faced with less borrowing capacity. ‘After all, think of what you will end up paying in rent.’ Legal changes There was …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Dutch housing update: prices are down, interest is up

Dutch News

A round-up of the latest housing news, brought to you by Expat Mortgages. House prices and interest rates There are now real signs that the overheated Dutch housing market is cooling down, as interest rates rise and buyers are faced with less borrowing capacity. ‘After all, think of what you will end up paying in rent.’ Legal changes There was …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Concerned Rotterdammers: stop demolishing affordable homes

NL Times

A group of concerned Rotterdammers has asked the city council to stop reducing the social housing stock and replacing affordable housing with more expensive houses. The group is making this appeal in response to the Woonvisie, the city's proposed housing policy by the coalition of Liveable Rotterdam, VVD, D66 and DENK. The group, called Recht op de Stad, states that …

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2 years, 3 months ago

House renovation on cards? All you need to know about a home improvement loan

Live Mint

We all have heard of the popular saying, ‘Ghar zindagi mein ek baar hi banta hai’. Home renovation loans, usually referred to as home improvement loans, are made available to customers looking for money to renovate, repair, or upgrade their residential property. A secured home improvement loan and an unsecured home improvement loan are the two different types of loans …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Homeowners’ associations struggle to make sustainable changes

NL Times

Homeowners' associations might be especially challenged in their efforts to make Dutch homes more sustainable, according to the NOS. To decide on a normal building improvement with the homeowners' association, there must be a 50 percent plus one vote majority. In addition to this hurdle, many residents may lack the resources to pay for sustainable improvements and subsidies are also …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Buying a new home or leaving NL? What should you do about your current property?

Dutch News

Do you own a house in the Netherlands but are moving to a new country? It is worth noting, however, that ABN AMRO mortgages can usually be adjusted easily, so you won’t have to agree a new deal or go to a notary again. There are, however, some downsides to renting out property which you should take into account: You …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Buying a new home or leaving NL? What should you do about your current property?

Dutch News

Do you own a house in the Netherlands but are moving to a new country? It is worth noting, however, that ABN AMRO mortgages can usually be adjusted easily, so you won’t have to agree a new deal or go to a notary again. There are, however, some downsides to renting out property which you should take into account: You …

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2 years, 4 months ago

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

NL Times

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 …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Terraced house the most common home in Netherlands

NL Times

Of the nearly 8 million homes in the Netherlands, 42 percent are terraced houses. That makes this type of house, consisting of a block of at least three houses together, the most common in the country, Statistics Netherlands reported on Wednesday based on figures for early 2021. Most of the 3.4 million terraced houses in the Netherlands are located in …

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2 years, 7 months ago

More homeowners taking out second mortgage to fund renovations

NL Times

The number of mortgage applications to renovate a home, or to make a home more sustainable, has been quickly increasing. Mortgage advisor De Hypotheker noted in a first-quarter report that the number of applications increased by 90 percent in a year. The surplus value is the result of the sharp rise in prices on the housing market, but a large …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Afsluitdijk renovations to cost €400 mil. more due to errors gov't knew about: report

NL Times

The renovations to the Afsluitdijk are taking three years longer and costing some 400 million euros more than initially planned due to calculation errors the government knew about before the renovations started, according to reports by the Volkskrant and De Telegraaf. But in May last year, then Infrastructure Minister Cora van Nieuwenhuizen informed parliament that the renovations wouldn't be done …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Far fewer housing construction permits issued in first quarter

NL Times

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 …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Dutch municipality buys up land to help new homeowners afford a house

NL Times

The municipality of Westland set up a housing fund to help locals afford a house. "We use the fund to buy the land on which the house is located," Remmert Keizer, party chairman of Gemeentebelang Westland, said to Omroep West. "An average terraced house in Westland now costs between 350,000 and 450,000 euros," city councilor Andre van den Berg of …

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2 years, 7 months ago

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

Dutch News

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 …

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2 years, 8 months ago

The new government has plans to get the housing market moving

Dutch News

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 …

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2 years, 8 months ago

A home in Amsterdam? Look beyond the canals to the wider region

Dutch News

The late Amsterdam mayor’s favourite song was about living on the Amsterdam canals – or, more accurately, being priced out of them. What I see happening now is comparable with London: everything within the ring A10 will be called Amsterdam Centrum.’ In the capital, house prices have been rising faster than ever, with the average property costing €569,900 last year, …

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2 years, 8 months ago

A home in Amsterdam? Look beyond the canals to the wider region

Dutch News

The late Amsterdam mayor’s favourite song was about living on the Amsterdam canals – or, more accurately, being priced out of them. What I see happening now is comparable with London: everything within the ring A10 will be called Amsterdam Centrum.’ In the capital, house prices have been rising faster than ever, with the average property costing €569,900 last year, …

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2 years, 9 months ago

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

NL Times

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 …

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2 years, 10 months ago

A home of your own? Key tips for first time buyers in 2022

Dutch News

Planning to buy a house in Amsterdam or anywhere else in the Netherlands for the first time in 2022? Taxes As in 2021, first time buyers under the age of 35 will not have to pay transfer tax if they are buying a house costing less than €400,000. Mortgages The new government has not yet said it has any plans …

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2 years, 10 months ago

A home of your own? Key tips for first time buyers in 2022

Dutch News

Planning to buy a house in Amsterdam or anywhere else in the Netherlands for the first time in 2022? Taxes As in 2021, first time buyers under the age of 35 will not have to pay transfer tax if they are buying a house costing less than €400,000. Mortgages The new government has not yet said it has any plans …

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