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Public housing works in Utrecht province

Public bodies signed €44M of housing works here in 2025, and €79.6M since 2017.

Signed in 2025
€44M
Per resident, 2025
€31

Public housing works signed in Utrecht province

Contract awards for housing construction published on TED by Dutch public buyers, by the year published, before VAT. Complete years only; the data runs to October 20, 2026.

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YearValue signed
2025€43,950,000
2024€3,157,428
2023€32,500,000
2022€4
2021€1
2020€0
2019€0
2018€1
2017€0

Only contracts above the EU thresholds are published on TED, so these are the larger works. Housing associations, which build most social housing, are generally not bound by procurement rules, so most of their work is not here. A contract is placed in the provinces its place of performance names, split evenly; one that names only the Netherlands counts for the Netherlands alone. The value is the award's total.

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At the average sale price, a home costs €590,333. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €2,518 a month. The Netherlands sets no single cap on the payment: each year the law fixes how much of their income a household may spend on the mortgage, by income and interest rate.

Payment, two incomes
27%
Payment, one income
54%

Figures for Netherlands: Utrecht province has no reliable figures of its own.

Renting the average home costs less each month than owning it. Owning counts interest, running costs and the return the deposit could earn, at the average sale price; rent is what private tenants pay on average, after housing benefit. Repaying the loan is saving, so it is left out.

Rent per month
€968
Owning per month
€2,020

64.9% more homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Licensed, 12 months
11,675
Per 1,000 residents
8.3

Sale prices have fallen by 3% or more 5 times since 1995. The deepest began in Q3 2008.

Deepest fall
−22.2%
Recovery from the low
51 months

In 2025 the population grew by 5,990 while 5,901 homes were finished: 1.0 new residents for every new home.

New residents per new home, 2025
1.0
Population change, 2025
+5,990

3.9% of the 625,990 homes registered on 1 January 2026 had nobody living in them.

Empty, 2026
3.9%
Empty homes
24,395

In 2024, 20% of the homes added came from existing buildings rather than new ones.

Homes from existing buildings, 2024
20%