Dutch private rental stock fell by 22,000 homes in 2025

The Netherlands lost 22,000 privately rented homes in 2025, as a sharp fall in properties owned by individual landlords outweighed growth in housing owned by other organisations, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) says.

The private rental stock fell to 1.16 million homes on 1 January 2026. Individual landlords owned 37,000 fewer rented homes than a year earlier, leaving 492,000. CBS says most of the decline in individual ownership in 2024 and 2025 came as homes moved into the owner-occupied sector.

Across those two years, the net shift from privately rented homes owned by individuals to owner-occupied homes was 57,000. A further 12,000 homes moved from individual landlords to non-individual owners, including companies, housing associations and other organisations.

The figures do not mean every home leaving an individual landlord’s portfolio was sold to an owner-occupier. CBS says rental homes can also change category when the owner’s legal form changes. In 2025, the number of rental homes owned by companies fell by 14,000, while those held by other non-individual organisations rose by 29,000, largely because of such changes in ownership structure.

The private rental sector contracted more sharply in 2025 than in 2024, when it shrank by 3,000 homes. Meanwhile, housing associations added 14,000 rental homes and the owner-occupied stock grew by 81,000.

The homes shifting from individual rental to owner-occupation were, on average, valued more highly than the wider stock of homes rented out by individuals: their average WOZ property valuation was €375,000, compared with €327,000 for individually owned rental homes overall, CBS says.