Per city
Your city, the same legal ceiling.
The points system applies across the Netherlands, but every rental market is different. Pick your city and read what plays there, from the large landlords to the questions tenants ask most.
Noord-Holland
Amsterdam
Amsterdam has the tightest rental market and the highest rents in the country. Exactly where knowing the legal ceiling pays off most.
Read about Amsterdam
Haarlem
Haarlem rents at Amsterdam levels with a largely pre-war housing stock.
Read about Haarlem
Alkmaar
The urban heart of North Holland above the North Sea Canal.
Read about Alkmaar
Purmerend
Purmerend has absorbed demand from Amsterdam for decades.
Read about Purmerend
Amstelveen
An international rental market bordering Amsterdam.
Read about Amstelveen
Hilversum
Hilversum rents expensively, with many pre-war villas split into apartments.
Read about Hilversum
Zuid-Holland
Rotterdam
Rotterdam is our home base. The city is growing fast, rents are growing with it, and the free municipal rental team has been discontinued.
Read about Rotterdam
The Hague
The Hague combines an international rental market with a large stock of pre-war housing. Two reasons to know your points.
Read about The Hague
Leiden
A historic centre with a large student population: small and old usually means a legal maximum.
Read about Leiden
Delft
The densest student city of South Holland, with many small and split homes.
Read about Delft
Zoetermeer
A city built in a few decades, with a stock largely from the post-war building waves.
Read about Zoetermeer
Dordrecht
The oldest city centre of Holland alongside post-war neighbourhoods.
Read about Dordrecht
Alphen aan den Rijn
Centrally placed between Leiden, Utrecht and Gouda, absorbing demand from three directions.
Read about Alphen aan den Rijn
Schiedam
Directly bordering Rotterdam, with a dense and partly pre-war stock.
Read about Schiedam
Utrecht
Noord-Brabant
Eindhoven
Eindhoven draws talent from all over the world, and rents have risen with the Brainport economy. The points system has not risen with them.
Read about Eindhoven
Tilburg
A growing student and working city where rents around the centre and the Spoorzone have climbed fast.
Read about Tilburg
Breda
Breda rents higher than the rest of Brabant, in a market driven by scarcity.
Read about Breda
's-Hertogenbosch
Rents here are among the highest in Brabant, especially in the centre and the Paleiskwartier.
Read about 's-Hertogenbosch
Helmond
Helmond benefits from the Brainport growth around Eindhoven, and rents followed.
Read about Helmond
Oss
A Brabant industrial and residential town with a spacious, affordable stock.
Read about Oss
Gelderland
Nijmegen
A student city with a tight market, where small homes seldom reach the free sector.
Read about Nijmegen
Arnhem
A mixed market: pre-war rental around the centre and the parks, new-build in the south.
Read about Arnhem
Apeldoorn
Green and spacious, but private rents rose faster than the points system allows.
Read about Apeldoorn
Ede
Ede is growing fast around the station and the former barracks site.
Read about Ede
Overijssel
Enschede
The student city of the east, with lower property values but rents that keep climbing.
Read about Enschede
Zwolle
A growing office and residential city where the rental market tightened quickly.
Read about Zwolle
Deventer
A Hanseatic centre surrounded by growing neighbourhoods.
Read about Deventer
Hengelo
A Twente city with a spacious post-war stock and moderate property values.
Read about Hengelo
Limburg
Maastricht
An international rental market where students and expats set the tone.
Read about Maastricht
Venlo
On the German border, serving both students and labour migrants.
Read about Venlo
Sittard-Geleen
A Limburg municipality with two centres and moderate property values.
Read about Sittard-Geleen
Heerlen
A spacious, affordable stock from the mining era and the post-war rebuild.
Read about Heerlen
Flevoland
Groningen
Friesland
Drenthe
Your city not listed? The free check works for every self-contained rental home in the Netherlands.