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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...

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Why Dutch House Prices Are Skyrocketing Again (And You’re Probably Too Late)

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Jul 22, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN

The Cold Number, the Warm Truth In June 2025, Dutch existing home prices rose by 9.3% compared to June 2024. That’s not subtle. Month-over-month (May to June), the increase was 0.9% . If you’re just t...

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Why the Dutch Housing Market Is Faking Its Comeback (and We’re All Falling for It)

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Jul 10, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN

The House Always Wins, But Who’s Keeping Score? Imagine you're standing in front of a brand-new home. Clean lines, solar panels, a smart thermostat that talks to your fridge. €504,000, and climbing. I...

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Why the Dutch Think They're Getting Richer (While Quietly Financing Their Own Misery)

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Jun 24, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN

Let’s Start with the Headline Everyone’s Clapping For “Household real disposable income rose by 2.2% in Q1 2025 compared to a year earlier.” The statisticians at CBS want us to nod approvingly. Politi...

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Dutch House Prices Skyrocket Again! Because No One Trusts Anything Else Anymore

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Jun 23, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN

Let me be clear from the start: house prices rising again is not news. It’s ritual. What matters now is not what has gone up, but why and why now . In May 2025, Dutch owner-occupied homes were on aver...

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WOZ 2025: When Numbers Pretend to be Neutral, But Never Are

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Jun 19, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN

The Illusion of Value, the Certainty of Tax Here’s the headline: In 2025, the average WOZ value of Dutch homes is up 5%. That’s €398,000 on average, the benchmark figure municipalities use to calculat...

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House Prices Up, Citizens Down: How Dutch Municipalities Got Addicted to Your WOZ Pain

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Jun 9, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN

The Trend Behind the Numbers The latest data from CBS and the Dutch Land Registry leaves no room for ambiguity: the transaction prices of existing owner-occupied homes in nearly all Dutch municipaliti...

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When the Ratio Lies: The Hidden Crisis Behind the Numbers

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Jun 6, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN

Once Upon a Time, 3 Was Enough Not long ago, if you earned €3,000 gross per month, you could rent a decent home for €1,000. That was the rule of thumb: your rent shouldn’t exceed a third of your salar...

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How the Dream of Starting a Family Is Being Crushed by the Cost of a Home

by Paolo Maria Pavan

May 29, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN

Prosperity or Paradox? The Netherlands is routinely ranked among the happiest countries in the world, a top-tier economy and the fourth largest GDP in Europe. But beneath this glossy label of prosperi...

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Dutch Housing Prices Soar 10%—But Are We Celebrating a Bubble?

by Paolo Maria Pavan

May 23, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN

When Data Inflates, Truth Shrinks April 2025: According to Statistics Netherlands (CBS), the average price of an existing home was 10.2% higher than in April 2024. It’s the eleventh consecutive month ...

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