Student rents rise to €601 per room per month; €945 per room in Amsterdam
The average student room in the Netherlands now costs €601 per month, student housing platform Kamernet reported. In Amsterdam, students now pay an average of €945 for a room per month. Quite the price tag, considering that student rooms are only 14 to 15 square meters on average in many student cities.
Amsterdam is still by far the most expensive city for students. Rents in the Dutch capital rose from €900 per room per month last year to an average of €945 per month this year. The average price per square meter is now €70.7. Enschede is the most affordable student city, with an average rent of €351 per room per month (+0.3 percent compared to last year). The price per square meter in Enschede is €22.8.
Nijmegen saw the biggest rent increase. Student room prices in the city shot up by 24.3 percent to an average of €635 per month. Student room rents rose by 23 percent to €535 in Tilburg and by 16.4 percent to €610 in Leiden.
The national rent increase was limited, climbing only €3 to €601 per month, because cities with more housing available kept prices stable. In Eindhoven, the average student room rent decreased by 7.4 percent to €440, and in Breda, there was a decrease of 2.7 percent to €535. Utrecht and Enschede saw only tiny rent increases of less than 1 percent.
Kamernet also reported that the number of available student rooms decreased by 1.9 percent in the second quarter, compared to a year earlier. Here, too, there were major differences between the student cities. The supply of student rooms decreased the most in Haarlem (-33.3 percent), Amsterdam (-26.8 percent), and Breda (-25.6 percent). On the plus side, Wageningen, Maastricht, and Tilburg all saw student room supplies increase by over 20 percent.
“Students urgently need more access to affordable housing. This is a concern shared across the sector,” Kamernet COO Jim Bijwaard said. “We are closely monitoring market development, such as the implementation of the Affordable Rent Act. So far, we have seen that implementing the law has been complex and housing supply continues to decline.”
