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Expat Housing Network Our mission is to help you rent or purchase a home in the Netherlands. We are a team of expats from
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We are a team of expats from all corners of the globe, living and working in the Netherlands and believe that everybody deserves to feel at home.

For Sale: A maisonette apartment with a feel & space of a house of approximately 119 m² in Amsterdam's Rivierenbuurt, sp...
02/09/2026

For Sale: A maisonette apartment with a feel & space of a house of approximately 119 m² in Amsterdam's Rivierenbuurt, spread over three floors and connected by its own internal staircase. Meet the place of your dreams with a west-facing balcony to catch the evening sun and an overall exquisite space to host friends, guests and family.

119 m² | 3 bedrooms | € 950.000 k.k.
Diezestraat 26-2, Rivierenbuurt

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Housing Math: €3,000/month rent + a legal 4.4% yearly cap = €196,600 gone in 5 years.Free-sector rent in the Netherlands...
02/09/2026

Housing Math: €3,000/month rent + a legal 4.4% yearly cap = €196,600 gone in 5 years.

Free-sector rent in the Netherlands can legally rise up to 4.4% a year, the 2026 cap. A lease that starts at €3,000/month can reach €3,564/month by year 5, no upgrades, same landlord throughout. That's €564 more a month than day one, for the identical apartment.

Add up five years at those increases and it's roughly €196,600. For context, Amsterdam's average apartment price is €593,371 (De Hypotheker) and €588,000 (MVA, the Amsterdam brokers association), both Q2 2026, two sources landing within 1% of each other. €196,600 is close to a third of either number, gone to a landlord instead of toward anything you'd keep.

One caveat: this assumes 2026's cap holds for all five years. It resets annually through 2029, so later years could land higher or lower.

🤔 Curious what buying instead looks like for your budget?
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FOR SALE in Amsterdam: €890,000 for a 111m² maisonette apartment with three bedrooms, a west-facing roof terrace and ene...
28/08/2026

FOR SALE in Amsterdam: €890,000 for a 111m² maisonette apartment with three bedrooms, a west-facing roof terrace and energy label C.

📍 Willem de Zwijgerlaan 145-3, Trompbuurt. Spread across the third and fourth floor, in a neighbourhood that mixes cafés, restaurants and specialty shops with Erasmuspark and Westerpark close by, and easy access to Sloterdijk and Amsterdam Centraal.

Inside: an open living room with a fireplace and a kitchen island, a separate room currently used as a home office, two more bedrooms upstairs lit by skylights, and a bathroom with a bath, a separate shower and a double sink.

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Viewing days: 8 September, 10:00-14:00, and 10 September, 10:00-12:00.

When you buy a house in the Netherlands, what stays in the property isn't decided by what looks built-in. It's most comm...
28/08/2026

When you buy a house in the Netherlands, what stays in the property isn't decided by what looks built-in. It's most commonly decided by a document called the lijst van zaken.

Every movable item in and around the house gets a label: stays with the property, goes with the seller, available for you to purchase separately, or not present. The industry-standard form used by most agents has four columns, and the third one is where it gets expensive.

Items marked "kan worden overgenomen" cost extra on top of the purchase price, paid from your own savings. They can't be included in your mortgage. The upside is that you don't pay transfer tax on movables, as long as the amount is itemised separately in the purchase agreement. The Belastingdienst can challenge the figure if it looks inflated, so this isn't a loophole.

Another thing to check: leased equipment. Solar panels, smart thermostats, water softeners. The seller will usually ask you to take over the contract, but you can say no. What you can't refuse is a recht van opstal registered at the Kadaster for the panels. That follows the property regardless of what you agree with the seller.

The lijst van zaken isn't always published with the listing, so ask for it before you make an offer. At the final inspection, check that everything listed as "stays" is still there and working. If something is missing or broken, you and the seller can agree to leave part of the purchase price in depot with the notary until it's resolved.

Buying in the Netherlands and want someone to walk you through it? Book a free call through the link in our bio.

Based on the NVM model lijst van zaken, the industry-standard form used by most Dutch real estate agents.

Renting in the Netherlands? Let's go over these three words you will most liekly encounter in the listing. 1️⃣ Kaal, or ...
26/08/2026

Renting in the Netherlands? Let's go over these three words you will most liekly encounter in the listing.

1️⃣ Kaal, or ongemeubileerd, is most often an empty shell with no flooring, no curtains, no ceiling lights and no kitchen appliances, and all of that is yours to arrange, buy and pay to install.

2️⃣ Gestoffeerd means the flooring, curtains, ceiling lights and a fitted kitchen are already there, sometimes with a washing machine. You bring furniture and not much else.

3️⃣ Gemeubileerd includes furniture, linens and kitchen equipment, and utilities are often in the rent. The catch is that furnished has no fixed definition. One place is a bed, a table and two chairs. Another comes with bedding, cutlery and a coffee machine. Our advice: ask for a written inclusion list before you sign.

The flooring is the cost that catches people out. Using 2026 rates, laminate is roughly €8 to €14 per m² for the material, around €10 per m² to fit at this size, and €1 to €3 per m² for the subfloor. On a 70m² apartment that comes to somewhere around €1,400 to €1,900. Curtains, ceiling lights and white goods sit on top. These are rough estimates and a real quote will land differently.

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Flooring rates via Zoofy, 2026, including VAT.

For sale in Amsterdam: €390,000 for a 77m² two-bedroom apartment with a southwest-facing balcony and energy label A.📍 Kl...
25/08/2026

For sale in Amsterdam: €390,000 for a 77m² two-bedroom apartment with a southwest-facing balcony and energy label A.

📍 Klaas Katerstraat 34, Zuidwestkwadrant-Zuid, Osdorp. Top floor of the building, third floor up, in a quiet residential pocket of Nieuw-West with trams and buses nearby and shops, cafés, schools and green space around the corner.

Inside: a bright living room with an open kitchen, a southwest-facing balcony, two bedrooms split across the hallway (the second doubles as a home office), a newly renovated bathroom with separate toilet, and storage behind the kitchen.
Energy label A on an existing pre-2003 build is the detail worth stopping on, because that's normally the upgrade a buyer inherits and budgets for.

🤔 In our price comparison series, the last three Amsterdam apartments we featured averaged around €675,000. This one is €390,000, for 77m², two bedrooms and a southwest-facing balcony.

It also comes in below the Osdorp average of €5,483 per m², at €5,065, and homes in this neighbourhood sold 5.1% over asking on average in the last 12 months. That combination usually means competition, so be read to move quickly.

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Osdorp €/m² and overbid figures: NVM/MVA via Amsterdam at Home, August 2026.

Foundation damage reports have doubled this summer. KCAF, the national foundation desk, is now handling 36 to 40 cases a...
21/08/2026

Foundation damage reports have doubled this summer. KCAF, the national foundation desk, is now handling 36 to 40 cases a week. Last year, same time: 20.

Most of it is drought-related: groundwater drops, wooden pile foundations dry out, and older buildings settle unevenly. Homes with confirmed damage sell for 14% less....

Standard homeowners insurance doesn't cover foundation repairs. If the foundation fails after you buy, that cost is yours.

At EHN we want to keep you informed and prepared. Want to know more about your buying or selling process? Or just a property valuation? Find link to book a conversation with us in our bio🫰

Same asking price + same country = completely different property options.📍€550,000 in Amsterdam buys you 50m² in the Jor...
19/08/2026

Same asking price + same country = completely different property options.

📍€550,000 in Amsterdam buys you 50m² in the Jordaan. One bedroom. Built in 1750, before the French Revolution. It's a Rijksmonument which means if you want to change a window frame, you need government approval first.

📍€550,000 in Eindhoven gets you 154m² with a south-facing garden. Three bedrooms. No monument restrictions, no ground lease. A house you can actually make your own without asking anyone.

Price per square meter: €11,000 vs €3,571.

Both are full ownership. Both are real listings on Funda right now.

We're not here to tell you which city to pick. But if you haven't looked beyond one city yet, your budget might surprise you.

🤔 Curious what €550K looks like in your city?
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Properties shown are not listed by EHN. Information from Funda, shared for market insight.

18/08/2026

Five things we hear from expats in their first year of house hunting in the Netherlands. Every single one came from a real conversation.

If you've been here a while, you probably recognise at least two.
If you just arrived. it's best to be aware.

175 rental fraud reports in the first six months of 2026, up from 21 in the same period last year (Fraudehelpdesk). In 2...
14/08/2026

175 rental fraud reports in the first six months of 2026, up from 21 in the same period last year (Fraudehelpdesk). In 2025, at least half the people who reported a rental scam had already lost money by the time they filed.

One victim told NL Times she's been without a home for over a year. 'The worst part is that you're afraid to respond to any more ads because you might get scammed again.'

If you come across a suspicious listing, report the account on the platform and file a report at fraudehelpdesk.nl. And share it! Most scams keep working because nobody talks about them until after the money is gone.

Save this for your next apartment search.

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