Buy a home as an investor and then rent it out immediately. If it is up to the municipality of Hoogeveen, that is no longer allowed in the future.
By banning it, people who want to buy a house and also have the intention of living in it would be more likely to have the housing market. The measure is then in particular intended for cheap and medium -tired houses, the municipality writes.
The measure is called buy -back protection and Hoogeveen is investigating this. A municipality should not just make use of it, only if it appears that there are too few affordable homes on the market.
The municipality must then substantially substantiate that. In the past, the municipality has already pronounced starters in the housing market, which could be possible with this plan.
Hoogeveen had it figured out whether there is too few homes. Research agency Companen did the research for the municipality and confirms that there is more demand for houses than supply. There is a lot of choice in the category up to 275,000 euros.
That research also made it clear that more homes are purchased in Hoogeveen by starters than by investors.
Nevertheless, Hoogeveen wants to continue for a number of other reasons. Purchasing protection should combat rental to labor migrants, so that houses become available for starters.
The municipality also says that signals flow into neighborhoods that there is a nuisance due to housing and room rental. This is not apparent from the research of Companen, but on the basis of what the municipality itself belongs, action is nevertheless taken.
There will be extra research into the places where signals are nuisance. “Based on this, we intend to introduce buy -back protection,” writes Hoogeveen.
The plan is not yet in jugs and jugs, local politics still have to consider it. If everything goes according to plan, it will happen somewhere in the spring of 2026.