Netherlands · report
Public housing works in the Netherlands
Public bodies signed €286.6M of housing works here in 2025, and €2.9B since 2017.
- Signed in 2025
- €286.6M
- Per resident, 2025
- €16
Public housing works signed in the Netherlands
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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| Year | Value signed |
|---|---|
| 2025 | €286,607,028 |
| 2024 | €175,072,462 |
| 2023 | €2,309,436,856 |
| 2022 | €47,888,251 |
| 2021 | €50,583,070 |
| 2020 | €25,908,753 |
| 2019 | €10,109,008 |
| 2018 | €5,573,455 |
| 2017 | €30,704,138 |
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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Sale prices have an 80% chance of landing between €483,170 and €564,960 by September 2027.
- Expected, September 2027
- €524,065
- Chance of a rise
- 73%
At the average sale price, a home costs €504,658. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €2,153 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
- 25%
- Payment, one income
- 51%
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
40.4% more homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 113,484
- Per 1,000 residents
- 6.3
Sale prices have fallen by 3% or more 10 times since 1995. The deepest began in August 2008.
- Deepest fall
- −21.3%
- Recovery from the low
- 48 months
In 2025 the population grew by 86,630 while 69,189 homes were finished: 1.3 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2025
- 1.3
- Population change, 2025
- +86,630
4.5% of the 8,344,955 homes registered on 1 January 2026 had nobody living in them.
- Empty, 2026
- 4.5%
- Empty homes
- 374,445
In 2024, 22% of the homes added came from existing buildings rather than new ones.
- Homes from existing buildings, 2024
- 22%