Existing home prices in Netherlands increased 8.6% in 2025

Existing home prices rose by an average of 8.6 percent last year compared to the year before, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) and the Land Registry reported. In December, home prices increased by 5.8 percent compared to the same month in 2024.

Price increases for existing homes continue to level off, according to CBS and the Land Registry. December was the ninth consecutive month that the year-on-year price increase was lower than the previous month’s. The average sales price for an existing home in the tight housing market in December was €480,051.

The Dutch Realtors’ Association (NVM) also reported that the price increase was leveling off. This was a result of the high supply of homes, as landlords sold former rentals into the owner-occupied market.

Home prices peaked in July 2022. Prices then fell for a while, but have been rising again since June 2023. The average price in December was 13.9 percent higher than the previous peak in July 2022. Compared to November, the price of an owner-occupied home fell by 0.9 percent.

Across 2025 as a whole, 238,695 homes changed hands, almost 16 percent more than a year earlier. In December, 27,154 homes were sold, over 14 percent more than a year earlier.

NVM announced last week that the average home price in the last quarter of last year exceeded €500,000. This was the first time that the half-million euro barrier had been broken.

Economists from ING, Rabobank, and ABN Amro previously predicted that home prices would continue to rise this year and next. The rise in home prices in recent years is mainly due to tight supply. Not enough homes are being built to accommodate the growing population. Household incomes have also risen, giving potential buyers more to spend.