Rotterdam-based TreeHouse, the company behind Pararius and Huurwoningen.nl, has acquired Properize, a Utrecht-based scale-up that screens rental candidates
Of all homes offered for sale in the past quarter, 7 percent came from the private sector market, housing platform Pararius reported. And as the supply declines, private sector rents continue to rise, increasing by 5.2 percent in the third quarter compared to the year before. In four of the five large cities, the square meter price rose much more than the national average.
Free market rental prices in the five largest cities in the Netherlands have jumped by 5 to 8 percent compared to a year earlier, according to an analysis of the last three months by home rental site Pararius. The price per square meter was being pushed up sharply, as the number of properties on the rental market have begun to disappear.