Sorry students and young professionals, prices for student rooms have gone up and will continue to rise.
In 2022, the price for an average student room went up by 10%. 🤯
With a decrease in offers and an increasing demand for rental housing, more and more students are struggling to find a place to call home, reports kamernet.nl.
No place to stay
Dutch rental markets are suffering due to the global pandemic, the war outbreak in Ukraine, the rising of energy prices, and inflation.
With the return of in-person education, the housing demand from Dutch and international students in larger cities, especially in Amsterdam, The Hague, Haarlem, Utrecht, and Rotterdam, has risen.
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Prices have gone up significantly for the average rental price of various housing types: a room (+10%), a studio (12%), and an apartment (+5%).
With no available or affordable accommodation, students and young professionals have had to press pause on their dreams as they haven’t found a place in cities where they want to work, study, or do an internship. Dat is echt slecht. 😔
What happens next?
More and more people are teaming up and jointly looking for housing to pay together with other starters or students. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
With one-third of municipalities imposing measures on real estate investors and private landlords to increase the supply of start-up homes, it’s still doubtful that these measures will be effective on the housing market.
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Unfortunately, there is no clear light at the end of the tunnel, just yet. If anything, supply in the rental market will decline further while demand will only increase.
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