Private rental sector grows stronger than buying and housing association sector The number of private rental homes increased by over 28 thousand to over 1.13 million in 2021; 2.5 per cent more. With this, the number of private rental houses grew relatively more than the number of owner-occupied houses (1.0 per cent) and the number…
Which political parties are backing tenants? Of all participating political parties, only eight are in favour of at least 30 per cent social renting in new housing developments. This is according to a survey by the Woonbond. The Woonbond asked its supporters from across the country to respond to three propositions. Political parties in all…
Housing protest against vacancy About a thousand people demonstrated in Amsterdam on Sunday for a better housing policy. The activists held a ‘march against vacancy’ from Dam Square via Kalverstraat to Waterlooplein. The participants of the second, Amsterdam Residential Protest were agitating against the vacancy in Dutch shopping streets. There, thousands of empty dwellings are…
Combine energy label with energy consumption The energy label of a house certainly does not say everything about its energy consumption. The Woonbond argues that the order of making rental homes more sustainable should not only look at the energy label, but also at energy consumption. On 13 February 2023, TV programme Radar featured a…
Less building permits new owner-occupied house, more for rental properties Unfortunately no surprise: 16 per cent fewer building permits were granted last year than in the previous year. This is reported by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). There were 63,000 permits issued; between 2017 and 2021, there were about 5,000 more annually on average…
Landlords Rotterdam roam free: rental property illegally split up The municipality of Rotterdam does not intervene when houses are being split against the rules into far too small ‘flats’ and rented out for top prices. The practices go against the official ban on house splitting and yet the municipality does not enforce. After all, splitting…
Reduce rent in low-income commercial rental The most important rental home news of the week: Groen Links has tabled an amendment to give the same income group at commercial landlords the right to rent reduction as well. It is expected that 510,000 households at corporations will get rent reductions. Read full article in dutch… The…
Local charges for tenants rise 3.2% The main rental home news of the week: Local charges for tenants in large municipalities are rising by an average of 3.2% this year. This is according to figures from the University of Groningen, which examined local charges in 39 large municipalities.The most expensive municipality for tenants is Leiden…