Overview
- Sales of private student rooms are about 1.5 times higher than last year, according to Kences using Landelijke Monitor Studentenhuisvesting data and ABF Research analysis.
- Amsterdam shed roughly 2,080 private student rooms in the past year, with Rotterdam losing about 1,025, the highest city-level declines reported.
- Regional figures show 790 rooms sold in The Hague in 2024 plus Q1 2025, 305 in Leiden, and 260 in Delft, underscoring losses across major study cities.
- Nationally, the private-room stock fell by 17,800 in 2024, and Kences warns that continued sales could cut up to 45,000 rooms—around 9% of the 393,000 total—within two years.
- Amsterdam has begun building 1,232 permanent student units this year and targets around 3,000, but Kences urges measures like housing-sharing and permit-free room rentals, citing Utrecht’s three-room exemption as pressure there intensifies.