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Netherlands Housing Market, July 2025: Prices Rise 8.6% Year-on-Year

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Aug 22, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN

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

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Aug 21, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN

Q: If the news says unemployment is stuck at 3.8%, why should I care? "Because that number hides what’s really going on. Thousands of people lose their jobs and thousands find new ones every month. It...

DUTCH ECONOMY ES HR IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Aug 20, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN

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

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Aug 19, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN

Every quarter, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) releases its figures. We see percentages, decimals, neat columns: “turnover down 0.7 percent, industrial sales prices down 0.6 percent.” A small shift, almo...

DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Aug 15, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN

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

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Aug 14, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN

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

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Aug 13, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN

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

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Aug 12, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN

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

The 0.7% That Speaks Volumes

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Aug 11, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN

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

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Aug 8, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN

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

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Aug 7, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN

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

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Aug 6, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN

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