House prices have also climbed sharply in the full corona crisis at our northern neighbors. In the two most expensive municipalities in the country, Blaricum and Bloemendaal, the average price rises to more than 1 million euros. But elsewhere in the country the average price has also risen by 50,000 euros in one year.
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This is evident from figures released by the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics on Monday. In Blaricum (25 kilometers east of the capital Amsterdam) you now pay 1.067 million euros for an average home. In Bloemendaal (15 kilometers west of Amsterdam) that is 1.008 million euros. A year earlier, the average in both municipalities still fluctuated around 850,000 euros. It is the first time that the average house price in a Dutch municipality has risen above 1 million euros.
Bloemendaal and Blaricum are known as municipalities with mainly luxury homes for wealthy Dutch people who want to live close to the capital, but want more space. In any case, house prices are highest in the province of North Holland.
But there is also a sharp increase elsewhere in the country. The average price has risen from 335,000 euros to a record 387,000 euros. In only 2 of the 352 municipalities there was a decrease. In one in five municipalities the price even rose by more than 20 percent.
Belgium
Dutch house prices have been clearly above Belgian prices for years. According to the most recent figures from Statbel, a semi-open or closed building cost an average of 245,000 euros in Belgium in the third quarter of last year. The average price for a completely detached house in that period was 350,000 euros, for an apartment it is 223,000 euros.
The most expensive municipality in our country is Ixelles, with an average house price of 850,000 euros, for Knokke-Heist, where a house costs an average of 727,500 euros. The federation of notaries came to a decision for the whole of 2021 average price increase of 7.6 percent for homes in Flanders.
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