The Dutch residential housing market noticed €9.7 billion of transactions in 2025, a 29% improve from 2024, analysis from Capital Worth has revealed.
New construct particularly took off, which represents 55% of transactions.
Traders and housing associations ploughed €5.3 billion into new rental housing, including round 17,700 new rental houses to the Dutch market.
Nevertheless excessive fiscal burdens, comparable to elevated switch tax, hire regulation below the Reasonably priced Hire Act (Moist Betaalbare Huur), and robust worth will increase within the owner-occupied housing market all served to push many current landlords out of the market.
Arjan Peerboom, chief govt at Capital Worth, mentioned: “Dutch institutional traders made substantial investments in new rental housing in 2025 and intend to proceed doing so within the coming years.
“Whether or not this will probably be doable relies on a beneficial funding local weather, enough provide and environment friendly allowing procedures.
“To efficiently deal with the housing scarcity within the Netherlands, considerably extra capital is required. The funding local weather for worldwide traders and the monetary well being of the housing affiliation sector are key areas of concern.
“Each have come below appreciable stress lately, at a time when each effort needs to be made to allow these traders to contribute sustainably to the housing market.”
Some €4.3 billion price of current rental housing was bought, largely to owner-occupiers.
Consequently, rental housing inventory declined by 26,000 houses in 2025 as a consequence of gross sales to owner-occupiers, in line with the Dutch Cadastre (Kadaster).
Worldwide and personal traders are largely absent from the Dutch new-build market as a consequence of a mixture of fiscal stress, rate of interest ranges and rent-regulating measures.
