Block is used to stimulate rental housing for middle – Financieele Dagblad

Stef Blok (Photo: HH)

Minister Stef Blok (Housing) goes into the regions of Utrecht and Amsterdam take additional measures to encourage the construction of rental housing in the middle. It involves studios and apartments in the price range just above the maximum of social housing, or € 710 per month.

Both regions faced with a shortage of rental housing for people with middle income, resulting in high rents and lack of flow in the housing market. In a letter to the Lower House Block writes that he wants to make it attractive for investors to invest in apartments in the middle.

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various domestic and foreign investors have concrete interest in investing in small, high-quality new apartments in prime

locations in various cities as there is certainty that they can rent out the house liberalized,” Blok writes in the letter.

to achieve it would allow Utrecht and Amsterdam in order to calculate more points for newly built rental housing to forty square meters in desirable locations. This allows investors gain more confidence that they can rent these houses in the private sector.

Allows he wants to solve the problem that investors greater or luxurious residential building are asked to ensure that they can rent out the homes in the private sector. “Certainly in desirable locations leads to realization of housing with rents that are significantly higher than those of an apartment can be expected in the middle,” says Block.