Average price of new-build homes rises less quickly

Construction site with new-build homes
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The price of new-build homes increased by 7.8 percent in Q2 2025 on average, year on year. In Q1 2025 the price increase was 9.4 percent. The average sale price of a new-build home is around 495 thousand euros. This is according to new figures from Statistics Netherlands (CBS), the Netherlands’ Cadastre and Eurostat.

The increase in the sale price of non-new-build homes in Q2 2025 ws 9.7 percent, year-on-year. Q2 2025 was the second consecutive quarter in which the rate of increase has slowed, down from 10.9 percent in Q1 2025. Over the last six quarters, prices for existing homes have risen by more than prices for new-build homes. In Q2 2025, the average sale value of an existing owner-occupied home was almost 473 thousand euros.

Sales of owner-occupied homes up by 17.5 percent

Over 57 thousand existing homes were sold in Q2 2025. That represents a year-on-year increase of 20 percent. In addition to that, nearly 6.3 thousand new-build homes were sold, similar to the same period last year. The numbers of new-build owner-occupied homes sold has been picking up for the past six quarters, following a period of significant decreases. In total, over 63 thousand homes were sold - up by 17.5 percent from last year.

House prices across the EU up by 5.4 percent

The average year-on-year price increase for new-build and existing homes combined in the Netherlands was 9.5 percent. That was higher than the average increase for the EU as a whole in Q2 of 5.4 percent. There were seven EU countries where house prices rose more rapidly than in the Netherlands. The largest increase in Q2 was seen in Portugal, at 17.2 percent. The only country where house prices fell relative to last year was Finland, where they were down by 1.3 percent.

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