In 2024, the average cost of building a new rental house in the Netherlands reached *** euros per cubic meter. Building owner-occupied property was slightly cheaper to construct, with an average cost of *** euros per cubic meter. The source mentions that the numbers concern an average on granted building permits for newly to be constructed homes with a total construction cost of more than 50,000 euros (excluding taxes over the last 12 months). Permits which combine living areas with holiday homes and/or offices were not counted. Note that no numbers were provided on renovation. What is the market size of the construction industry in the Netherlands? As of 2022, the Netherlands had over ******* active construction companies. These companies were either active in the construction of buildings or development of building projects, civil engineering or were involved in specialized construction activities. One of the more internationally well-known Dutch construction firms is BAM, which is also active in Belgium, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Germany with project deliveries in Denmark, Luxembourg and Switzerland. The revenue of the Royal BAM Group reached a value of *** billion euros in 2023. How much do you pay for a house in the Netherlands? Utrecht was one of the provinces in the Netherlands with the highest price for a single-family house. It is also important to look at the different prices in Dutch cities, as they can vary significantly. Residential property in Amsterdam, cities surrounding the Dutch capital (such as Haarlem) or Utrecht sold for much higher prices than a house in, for example, Rotterdam.

The quarterly pulse monitor expects the Dutch house prices to fall by five percent in 2023 due to the decline in purchasing power, higher cost of borrowing and worsening economic conditions. The price of Dutch residential property in 2022 was approximately 489,000 euros. These developments came on top of other issues that were already prevalent in the Dutch housing market, such as the discussion about nitrogen and its effect on housing construction. The effects of nitrogen on the price of a house At the end of 2019, months before the coronavirus, there was already a lot of uncertainty whether their predictions would hold true. This had to do with the so-called “nitrogen decision” (in Dutch: stikstofbesluit) in May 2019. Simply put, a Dutch advisory body found that the domestic policy for nitrogen emission (formally known as Programmatische Aanpak Stikstof or Programmatic Approach Nitrogen) went against European rules. As of August 2019, a sizable share of the Dutch population was not familiar with this nitrogen policy. However, the advisory body’s decision led to an immediate stop to all construction in the country (amongst other things). By the end of 2019, this stop was still in place. For 2020, newly to be constructed houses have to comply to new rules regarding nitrogen emission. This puts new pressure on a housing market that already had to keep with increasing demand. How about the housing market in Amsterdam? In the year 2022, Amsterdam ranked as the most expensive city in the Netherlands to acquire an apartment, with an average price per square meter that was 2,000 euros more expensive than in Utrecht. Amsterdam was also well above the average rents found in other cities. A house in Amsterdam had a rent of approximately 26 euros per square meter in 2023, whereas rents in Rotterdam cost roughly 18 euros per square meter. It should be noted, however, that rent changes in the Dutch capital are significantly lower than those found in Rotterdam and especially Utrecht.

In 2019, the total investment volume in commercial property in Amsterdam reached 3.6 billion euros. This is a decrease compared to the previous year. Despite that, commercial real estate investments in the first three quarters of 2018 in the Netherlands were ranked as the fourth highest of Europe.

A high demand for offices in Amsterdam…

Demand for office space in Amsterdam was almost as high as the demand in the three cities of The Hague, Utrecht and Rotterdam combined. In 2017, approximately 350,000 square meters was in demand in the Dutch capital. As the number of office completions could not keep up with the increasing demand, prices in certain Amsterdam districts went up. An office in a prime location in the city’s South Axis district (in Dutch: Zuidas, the Amsterdam business district) on average would cost around 48 U.S. dollars per square feet per year at the end of 2018.

… but less demand for warehouses or logistics property in the capital.

Amsterdam, however, was not the biggest logistics hotspot in the Netherlands. The take-up volume of logistics property in 2018 was highest in cities in the south of the country, such as Venlo (home of Trade Port Venlo Noord, which supplies fashion brands), Eindhoven and Tilburg. Rents for warehouses were lower in these southern cities, reaching 50 and 45 euros per square meter in Roosendaal and Venlo respectively compared to 65 and 95 euros per square meter in Amsterdam and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.

Rents for unfurnished housing in the Netherlands reached an all-time high in 2023. In the third quarter of the year, the average square meter rent for residential properties reached 17.77 euros, up from 16.9 euros during the same period in 2022. Note that the numbers shown in this statistic are not from a governmental institution, but concern rental housing being offered on the website of the source in the specific quarters. This implies the numbers only show rents of property on the free market and exclude social housing. No difference was made between the type of rental housing, such as houses, apartments, rooms or studios. Big cities well above the average rent price Cities in the Randstad area (the areas surrounding Amsterdam, The Hague, Utrecht and Rotterdam) have a big influence on the average rental price in the Netherlands. This is especially true for Amsterdam, as the Dutch capital registered an average rent price of roughly 26 euros per square meter in 2023. The Hague and Rotterdam, on the other hand, had rental rates below the national average. Are these rents expensive or not? A historical development of rent price indices suggests that rents in the Netherlands are at their highest level since 1990. This graph, however, does not mention whether it has a correction for inflation or not. It is unclear whether any institution researched the development of “real” rent prices in the Netherlands. Statista can offer two components for a potential comparison: the annual housing rent percentage increase since 1990 as well as the inflation rate of the Netherland since 2008.

Rent prices per square meter in the largest Dutch cities have been on an upward trend after a slight decline in 2020. Amsterdam remained the most expensive city to live in, averaging a monthly rent of 27.6 euros per square meter for residential real estate in the private rental sector. Monthly rents in Utrecht were around six euros cheaper per square meter. Both cities were above the average rent price of residential property in the Netherlands overall, whereas Rotterdam and The Hague were slightly below that. Buying versus renting, what do the Dutch prefer? The Netherlands is one of Europe’s leading countries when it comes to homeownership, having funded this with a mortgage. In 2023, around 60 percent of people living in the Netherlands were homeowners with a mortgage. This is because Dutch homeowners were able to for many years to deduct interest paid from pre-tax income (a system known in the Netherlands as hypotheekrenteaftrek). This resulted in the Netherlands having one of the largest mortgage debts across the European continent. Total mortgage debt of Dutch households reached a value of approximately 803 billion euros in 2023. Is the Dutch housing market overheating? There are several indicators for the Netherlands that allow to investigate whether the housing market is overheating or not. House price indices corrected for inflation in the Netherlands suggest, for example, that prices have declined since 2022. The Netherlands’ house-price-to-rent-ratio, on the other hand, has exceeded the pre-crisis level in 2019. These figures, however, are believed to be significantly higher for cities like Amsterdam, as it was suggested for a long time that the prices of owner-occupied houses were increasing faster than rents in the private rental sector.

Statista estimates have created a hypothetical forecast of the potential affected area (in square meters) of residential real estate at risk due to rising sea-levels if no further action is taken to mitigate risks across Europe. The estimate, which takes 2020 figures into account for total populations, populations below locked-in seas levels, the number of residential buildings in at-risk areas as well as the average size and market value of residential real estate by city. The scenario measures lower and upper estimates for global average temperature changes by 2100. Area at risk In the scenario put forward, Statista estimates that as much as ***** million square meters of residential building in the Hague area in the Netherlands could be affected and/or damaged from rising sea-levels and consequent flooding if global average temperatures were to rise by **** degrees. Rising seas and real estate in Europe Far more can be learnt on the potential costs to real estate in Europe through sea-level rises in our report. As well as giving easy to digest figures, the report also covers a global perspective and how each city is combating the growing threat of coastal and river flooding due to climate change.

Due to the lack of lawful mandate and a commissioning party as rationale for the existence of this table, it has been decided that this table will be discontinued after the December 2025 publication.

This table shows the value (expressed in building costs) of the construction of building projects expected shortly. It also shows the value of the actually realised monthly production of building projects. The figures relate to building projects with building costs of 50 thousand euro or more. The total building costs are broken down into building costs by building phase and by type of building.

Data available from: January 2015.

Status of the figures: Figures of the latest 12 months are provisional. Municipalities with non-response are estimated. The later received response of municipalities over previous periods have been processed in the figures of the month in which the building permit was granted. As a result, figures about the same month may vary over time. Twelve months after publication the provisional figures become definite.

Changes as of October 31, 2025: The figures of August have been added and all figures as of August 2024 may have been revised.

When will new figures be published? The new figures will be published on the last working day of the second month after the reporting month. The figures for the same reporting month of a year earlier then become final.

The quarterly pulse monitor expects the Dutch house prices to climb by *** percent in 2025 due to the decline in purchasing power, higher cost of borrowing and worsening economic conditions. The price of Dutch residential property in 2025 was approximately ******* euros. These developments came on top of other issues that were already prevalent in the Dutch housing market, such as the discussion about nitrogen and its effect on housing construction. The effects of nitrogen on the price of a house At the end of 2019, months before the coronavirus, there was already a lot of uncertainty whether their predictions would hold true. This had to do with the so-called “nitrogen decision” (in Dutch: stikstofbesluit) in May 2019. Simply put, a Dutch advisory body found that the domestic policy for nitrogen emission (formally known as Programmatische Aanpak Stikstof or Programmatic Approach Nitrogen) went against European rules. As of August 2019, a sizable share of the Dutch population was not familiar with this nitrogen policy. However, the advisory body’s decision led to an immediate stop to all construction in the country (amongst other things). By the end of 2019, this stop was still in place. For 2020, newly to be constructed houses have to comply to new rules regarding nitrogen emission. This puts new pressure on a housing market that already had to keep with increasing demand. How about the housing market in Amsterdam? In the year 2022, Amsterdam ranked as the most expensive city in the Netherlands to acquire an apartment, with an average price per square meter that was ***** euros more expensive than in Utrecht. Amsterdam was also well above the average rents found in other cities. A house in Amsterdam had a rent of approximately ** euros per square meter in 2023, whereas rents in Rotterdam cost roughly ** euros per square meter. It should be noted, however, that rent changes in the Dutch capital are significantly lower than those found in Rotterdam and especially Utrecht.

The importance of sustainability in commercial real estate has increased in recent years, leading to an increase in demand for offices with higher energy efficiency. In Amsterdam, the Netherlands, office rents for buildings with energy label A or better have experienced sharper rental growth than the ones with energy label B or worse. In 2021, the square meter price of office space with energy label A or better was *** euros, while for space with energy label B or worse it was *** euros. From January 2023, Dutch offices will need to have an energy label C or better to be deemed fit for use, which is likely to further boost demand for energy efficient offices in 2022.

The average rent prices of logistics property in the Netherlands ranged between approximately ** euros per square meter and ** euros per square meter, depending on the province. Though the average rent was about **** euros per square meter in 2022, in the Southwest Netherlands, it reached up to **** euros per square meters. Though industrial and logistics property comes in different sizes, the largest size class was the most popular in 2022.The source, the NVM, is a Dutch branch organization of real estate agents and appraisers. Almost ** percent of Dutch houses are sold by real estate agents who are members of this organization.

The United Kingdom (UK) is the most expensive European country for prime industrial rent. The monthly rent for industrial space in London Heathrow in the second quarter of 2025 cost **** euros per square meter. Switzerland, Norway, and Ireland, were the other European countries where the average annual cost of industrial prime rents in the capital city exceeded one ***euros per square meter.

Amsterdam was not the place in the Netherlands with the most distribution centers or other types of logistics real estate at the end of 2018. Instead, this type of real estate was mostly found in cities in the south or south-east of the Netherlands. Venlo, home to the distribution centers of international fashion brands, had over *** million square meters of logistics property, over ******* square meters more than the Dutch capital. This according to an assessment made by a Dutch branch organization of real estate agents and appraisers. Almost ** percent of Dutch houses are sold by real estate agents who are members of this organization.

Not surprisingly, the capital of the Netherlands is also its largest city. At around *******, Amsterdam has over ******* inhabitants more than the second-largest city in the country, Rotterdam. The Hague and Utrecht, the third and fourth-largest cities in the Netherlands, together have approximately as many inhabitants as Amsterdam alone. Amsterdam and the pressure on the housing market A rapidly growing city, Amsterdam’s population increased from roughly ***** thousand to around ***** thousand in the last decade. This has created pressure on the real estate market, where average rent and housing prices have skyrocketed. In the first quarter of 2010, the average rent of residential property amounted to roughly ***** euros per square meter. In the first quarter of 2021, this had increased to over ***** euros per square meter.  2030 Outlook  In the nearby future, Amsterdam is set to remain the Netherlands’ largest city. According to a recent forecast, by 2030 Amsterdam will have broken the barrier of one million inhabitants. Rotterdam, Den Haag and Utrecht are forecast to grow too, albeit at a much lower pace. In 2030, Rotterdam is expected to reach just under ******* inhabitants.