News item | 15-07-2025 | 09:35
Minister Mona Keijzer of Housing and Spatial Planning has today started the internet consultation of the 4 measures to retain middle rental homes and to prevent landlords from selling their homes. The measures are mainly aimed at homes of private landlords in large cities and can quickly have effect. In the home valuation system (WWS), the WOZ value will count heavier in the rental price. A higher rental price may be requested for small monuments and the lack of outdoor space no longer produces negatives. In addition, all students are given the opportunity to conclude a temporary lease.
The consultation of the Decree on adjustments of regulations rental runs until 25 August 2025. After processing the responses, the minister sends the proposal to the Lower House. The intended entry into force of the adjustments is January 1, 2026.
WWS adjustments
3 of the 4 measures fall within the WWS, the points system with which homes are valued in order to achieve a fair rental price. For example, for the current WOZ-CAP, which limits a high WOZ value in the rental price at popular locations, a price storage will apply. As a result, landlords can request the maximum rental price at the original point total, without these homes coming to the free sector above the middle rental. In addition, small national monuments will soon be more appreciated in the WWS and the 5 negatives for the lack of outdoor space will be canceled.
Landlords can only increase the rental price to the new maximum if a new lease contract is concluded. For existing tenants, the rent may be increased annually by the permitted statutory percentage and a landlord can grow to the new maximum amount in this way. For these tenants, the rent can therefore not suddenly be increased to the new maximum rent.
Students
For all students it must be possible to conclude a temporary lease contract. Currently, only students who move to the city where they are going to study can get a temporary contract. That will now also apply to students who already live in the city. This gives them more chance of a room.
Temporary contracts offer landlords more flexibility and thus reduce the chance that houses are sold, the so -called. Nationally, almost half of the student residences are in the hands of private landlords.
Supply of middle rental must be raised
The measures follow on monitoring the effects of recent rental regulations, including the Affordable Rental Rent and Fixed Rental Contracts Act, and tax changes to the rental market. This shows that in 2024 the private rental market shrunk slightly at the bottom of the line. Given the high demand for affordable rental properties, the supply must grow. Private landlords in cities in particular sell their houses, because middle rental has become less profitable for them and selling the property at the market price is more. This increases the large shortage of affordable rental properties in the Netherlands.
Proposals Spring Memorandum
The proposed changes from the Spring Memorandum are not included in the decision that goes into consultation, after the Chamber called in by motion not to go further with this. These measures are further investigated, including with a view to the next cabinet. It concerned the reduction of the points limit for the middle rental, the heavier counting the WOZ value in the rental price and an exploration to the possibility of excluding small landlords from rental price regulation.