Netherlands Housing Market, July 2025: Prices Rise 8.6% Year-on-Year by Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 22, 2025 Q: Are we back in a housing bubble like before? "Not exactly. Prices are rising again, up 8.6% in July compared to last year, but this isn’t the wild 20% jumps we saw in 2021–2022. Back then it was fr... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan REAL ESTATE Read more
Investments Rise in June, But Who Is Really Investing? by Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 20, 2025 June 2025 brought us a headline that looks good at first sight: investments in tangible fixed assets were 8.3 percent higher than a year earlier, according to CBS. A figure that makes us breathe a lit... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Read more
Dutch Job Market Q2 2025: Fewer Moves, More Caution by Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 15, 2025 Three hundred and five thousand. (305.000) That’s the number of employees who changed employers in the second quarter of 2025. It sounds big, until you notice that, three years earlier, the same figur... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Read more
June’s Dutch Export Numbers: A Modest Rise Amid Germany’s Industrial Slowdown by Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 14, 2025 Exports Up, Germany Down: Reading Between the Lines Statistics Netherlands tells us that in June, the volume of Dutch goods exports, adjusted for working days, was up 1.8% compared to June 2024. Machi... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Read more
July’s Dutch Business Numbers: The Calm, the Churn, and the Illusion of Growth by Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 13, 2025 In July 2025, 299 companies were declared bankrupt in the Netherlands. That’s 109 fewer than the same month in 2024 , a 27% drop, and 4% fewer than in June. At first glance, this is the kind of number... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Read more
Dutch Inflation Cools to 2.9% in July 2025 by Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 12, 2025 When I look at the July 2025 inflation figure, 2.9% year-on-year, down from 3.1% in June, I don’t just see a number. I see a pulse. A soft beat in the economic bloodstream telling us the patient, our ... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Read more
The 0.7% That Speaks Volumes by Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 11, 2025 Numbers are often treated like weather forecasts, glanced at, maybe discussed, then forgotten. But behind each percentage point, there is a story about how we live, choose, adapt, and sometimes contra... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Read more
Dutch Industry’s June Dip: A Story About Margins, Machines, and the Meaning Behind the Numbers by Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 8, 2025 We live in an age obsessed with percentages. The Dutch industry in June produced 0.2 percent less than the same month last year, says CBS. A fraction of a percentage, easy to ignore. But every fractio... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Read more
When the Barometer Rises, but the Compass Stays Uncertain by Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 7, 2025 There’s a peculiar kind of optimism in the Dutch business climate this quarter, one that doesn’t quite celebrate, but doesn’t retreat either. Like the moment a sailor notes the wind shifting after wee... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Read more
When a Whisper Becomes a Warning: What Dutch Industrial Prices Are Telling Us by Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 6, 2025 There’s a peculiar sound in the Dutch economy lately, not a crash, not a siren, but something softer: the rustle of industrial prices sliding just a little, again. In June 2025, industrial sales price... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Read more
Netherlands, July 2025: Inflation at 2.9%, But What Does Your Wallet Say? by Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 5, 2025 Let me begin with a story. In the Dutch summer of 2022, a friend of mine, a precision-driven restaurant owner in Amsterdam, told me something that struck harder than any macroeconomic report: "Paolo, ... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Read more
Retail’s Quiet Roar: What 3.3% in June Really Tells Us by Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 4, 2025 Not All Growth Is Equal, And Not All Decline Is A Crisis When the Dutch retail sector reports a 3.3% increase in turnover for June 2025 compared to the same month in 2024, many instinctively raise a g... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Read more