Since the price drop in July 2012 the average sales price of houses has hardly changed. This is shown by an analysis of www.woningmarktcijfers.nl The purchase price has been stable at an average level of 215.000 Euro. In the first half of 2012 the average purchase price was 235.000 Euro. The Price index existing houses[...]

Home owners paid off their mortgage extra earlier this year. In the first few months of this year 40 to 50 per cent more pay offs were made. The trend started in 2012 and is being continued, but faster. In 2012 banks received 20 to 50 per cent more in pay offs than in 2011.[...]

Existing houses for sale were 7 per cent cheaper than in March 2012. The drop in price in comparison with a year earlier is smaller than in the previous month. Houses were 8.3 per cent cheaper in February 2013 compared to 2012. The index of the CBS (Central Bureau for Statistics) shows the price development[...]

The Netherlands two biggest mortgage advisory groups are reporting signs that the housing market may be picking up, the Financieele Dagblad reports on Monday. The paper says the high-street chains Hypotheker and Hypotheekshop have noted the first rise in the number of clients asking for information about buying a house for some time. ‘There is[...]

Some 14,300 newly built homes were sold last year, the worst results in the sector since 1950, according to housing developers’ association NVB. This year the NVB is forecasting a further deterioration, saying just 10,000 new homes will be sold. In 2006, when the housing market was nearing its peak, 44,000 new homes found owners.[...]

Over 75% of housing corporations will put up the rents of high-earning tenants in the rent-controlled sector when new legislation comes into force, Nos television reports on Tuesday. The broadcaster questioned 220 housing corporations about the government’s plan to allow inflation-busting rises for richer households, in an effort to encourage them to move. Some 2.4[...]

Plans to reform the housing sector worked out by the government and three opposition parties will cost the treasury some €200m a year in lost income, housing minister Stef Blok said on Wednesday. The deal, which involves the government softening some of its plans, was necessary to ensure majority support in the upper house of[...]

The number of people applying for compensation from the National Mortgage Warranty kitty (NHG – Nationale Hypotheek Garantie) is raising steadily due to the financial crisis. If this trend is going to continue, the bottom of the kitty will be reached in a few years time, according to Dutch newspaper AD. The housing market is[...]

Local authorities are now hunting for illegal hotels Following legal issues across the US, Airbnb is facing serious conflicts with the local government in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Airbnb’s issues in Amsterdam have been ongoing; in fact, an investigation into the service was ordered by authorities back in November, led by Alderman Freek Ossel. So far, 200 “suspicious” homes have already[...]

House prices fell by 6.3% in December 2012, compared with the previous year, slightly down on the rate of decline recorded in November. In November, house prices were down 6.8%. Over 2012 as a whole, house prices were 5.9% lower than in 2011, figures from the national statistics office CBS and the land registry show.[...]