Young people who will soon start a new study have undoubtedly noticed that there are fewer rooms available. According to Kamernet, the range of student rooms has decreased by 1.9 percent compared to last year. The number of available rooms has even fallen by more than a quarter in Amsterdam, Breda and Haarlem.
Worried
Kamernet director Jim Bijwaard is concerned about this development. “Students urgently need more access to affordable housing. This is a concern that is shared in the entire sector.”
Bijwaard says the implementation of the affordable rent of former residential minister Hugo de Jonge to follow closely. “Until now we see that the implementation of the Act is complex and that the housing supply continues to fall.”
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Maastricht, Tilburg and Wageningen are a positive exception to this development. More student rooms have recently been offered there.
Especially student rooms in Nijmegen more expensive
While the average room rental has hardly gone up throughout the Netherlands, according to Kamernet, students in Nijmegen are considerably more expensive. In this Waalstad, since mid -last year, the average room rental was raised by 24 percent to 635 euros per month.
Tilburg follows with a rent increase from 23 percent to 535 euros. In Groningen and Leiden, students have seen the average rent with 20 and 16 percent respectively.
Amsterdam most expensive city, Eindhoven cheaper
Amsterdam remains by far the most expensive city for students with an average room rental of 945 euros per month. That is 5 percent more than last year. In Enschede (351 euros), Wageningen (395 euros) and Leeuwarden (425 euros), students pay less than half for their room than students in our capital.
In Eindhoven, renting a room has even become 7 percent cheaper and a student pays an average of 440 euros a month. The room rental has also dropped in Breda, by 3 percent to 535 euros.
Lower rent at housing corporation
In the study, Kamernet only assumed the nearly 15,000 rooms that were offered on its own platform in the past quarter. It happens that some students rent a room through a housing corporation for less money.
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More than 400,000 students are resident, according to figures from branch organization Kences. Of these, 43 percent live in rooms offered by private landlords. Almost 40 percent of these students stay in rooms of housing corporations. And the rest is in rooms that are rented informally at hospitas and other providers of living space.
Apartments
According to Kamernet, students who prefer to rent an apartment will pay the most in Amsterdam every month: 2000 euros. Apartments in Haarlem (1923 euros) and Rotterdam (1600 euros) also have high rents.