Private real estate investors have benefited greatly from tighter mortgage debt limits for homebuyers, as a portion of house seekers could no longer buy properties and had to rent in the free sector housing instead. By 2018, a household earning twice the modal income could allocate only 24 percent of its gross income to mortgage costs, a decrease from 36.8 …
The coronavirus crisis will cause long lasting damage to the Dutch economy, even if the virus is completely under control soon, according to central planning office CPB. The labor supply and investments will only recover in the long term - ten years or more, the CPB expects. "That does mean that we missed out on two years of economic growth," …
