Million-dollar homes and marketplace scams: this happened today

Baronielaan Breda is a leader in multi-million dollar homes
What do Breda and Eindhoven have in common with Bloemendaal and Laren? More and more million-dollar homes. One in sixteen owner-occupied houses in the Netherlands now costs more than one million euros. Breda ranks third among municipalities where the most of these homes were added in 2025: 900 more, for a total of 4,900. In Eindhoven, 600 were added, for a total of 3,300. The Baronielaan in Breda takes the Brabant crown with no fewer than 190 million-dollar homes in one street. Read the whole story here.

Set up dozens of people via Marktplaats
Tools, a stroller, a tent – ​​all for sale on Marktplaats, but never delivered. A couple from Steenbergen must answer for fraud in the court in Breda on Wednesday. Nikita (39) appeared, but friend Brent (36) did not. She denied knowledge of the practices, despite her bank account being used three times for the payments. The list of items never delivered is long and amounts to thousands of euros. The public prosecutor demanded forty hours of community service for Nikita; her lawyer argued for acquittal. Judgment will follow on June 10. Check it out here.

AI helps teachers mark tests
Want to mark a test in fifteen minutes instead of an hour and a half? Pre-vocational secondary education teacher Sander Neilen from Eindhoven tests the AI ​​tool CheckMate, developed by CitoLab. At first he was skeptical, but now he is positively surprised. The system can also check open questions and, he says, makes the work clearer and more consistent. Neilen emphasizes that he continues to check all answers himself. CheckMate will be further tested in more classes next year. Read his story here.

Wednesday temperatures drop after tropical days
After the warmest May 26 ever recorded, the temperature will drop to 24 or 25 degrees on Wednesday – the ‘coldest’ day of the week according to weatherman Jeroen Elferink-Ruijsch from Weerplaza. The cause: wind from the north that brings cooler air. It will not last long: on Thursday the temperature will climb again to 26 or 27 degrees, on Friday even to 32 degrees. Then there is also a chance of local thunderstorms. You can read their analysis here.

Twenty months in prison for a crazy ride in a stolen taxi
David de C. (36) from Brussels has to spend twenty months in prison, four of which are conditional, for a serious collision in Tilburg last year. He drove a stolen taxi through a red light and collided head-on with the car of a 36-year-old woman, who now has permanent injuries to her foot. The C. had previously stolen the taxi at the station and then drove like crazy through the center for twenty minutes, running red lights several times and far too fast. He is also banned from driving motor vehicles in the Netherlands for three years and must pay the taxi driver more than 30,000 euros in compensation. Read his story here.