Landlords made full use of their right to put up rents by fixed amounts in July, with an average increase of 4.9%, national statistics agency CBS said on Friday. Excluding new tenancies, the average increase was 4.1% compared with 4.7% in 2024.

The government had set maximum increases for the three Dutch rental sectors – rent and income-controlled social housing, rent-controlled mid-market housing and the “free” sector. Most landlords in the Netherlands increase the rent they charge tenants every July.

The CBS figures only cover social housing and the non-rent controlled sector. The mid-market sector, introduced in July last year, is too new to generate proper statistics for analysis, the CBS told Dutch News. Landlords in that sector had been allowed to raise rents by 7.7%.

Some two-thirds of Dutch social housing is owned by housing corporations, who increased rents by an average of 5.1%. Private sector landlords operating in the social housing increased their rents by 4.7% and in the non-rent-controlled sector  by an average of 4.4% –

As in 2024, the biggest average increase in rental prices was in Rotterdam at 5.3%.

The government had restricted the increase in rent and income-controlled social housing rents to a maximum of 5% this year, but people who earn too much to technically qualify for social housing faced an additional increase of €50 or €100 on top of that.