Tag: HOUSING MARKET
Utrecht increases purchase protection: owner-occupied homes up to almost 600,000 euros may not be rented out immediately
Utrecht – The municipality of Utrecht raises the price limit of purchase protection. From July, owner-occupied houses cheaper than 587,000 euros may no longer be rented out directly. The annual…
More and more municipalities have purchase protection, while experts call it ‘has become irrelevant’
According to the professor, the supply of rental housing is declining. It is becoming less and less interesting for private investors to rent out a house. “While there is a…
Eemnes is planning a residential area on Eemoever, traffic through Eembrugge is a concern for later
“The vision indicates a direction,” said Marion Riemens of Dorpsbelang, “We express that we want to see housing there, so the zoning plan must be adjusted. But the width of…
Cracked ground again in Utrecht: ‘There is a new wave of young people who are increasingly squatting’
How does squatting a building actually work? Teun: “You drive past a building and see it empty. You do that a few times, and you see that it remains empty.…
Utrecht leads the way in falling house prices
House prices fell most in the first quarter of this year in the province of Utrecht, namely by 3 percent compared to the first three months of last year. In…
Student or family neighbourhood: how students and residents collide in Wittevrouwen
What is the landlady scheme? In that case, as a parent you buy a house, usually an apartment, and make your child co-owner for at least 10 percent. As long…
Flexible homes cause great anger in Hooglanderveen: ‘We feel passed over by politics’
For example, the building is rotated a quarter of a turn, so that local residents have more privacy, the minimum age to live there has been raised to 23 and…
Rental housing in the free sector is slightly cheaper in the provinces, and more expensive in the city
Nationally, the average price of a rental home in the private sector fell by almost 2 percent. But prices rose sharply in many large and medium-sized cities, often much faster…
Soest wants more money to combat the housing shortage: civil servants and flexible housing needed
Soest – The municipal council of Soest needs extra money to tackle the housing shortage. Alderman Osman Suna says that the budget must be increased in order to tackle housing…
‘Residential district brings more biodiversity to the Oude Tempel forest’, Soest and the construction company promise
The municipality and construction company Ter Steege admit: ‘nature-inclusive living’ sounds very green, but it does not alter the fact that nature disappears under the line. The natural value of…