It is becoming increasingly difficult for people in the Netherlands with an average income to find an affordable home, De Hypotheker has stated. The mortgage advisor compared the average income to the current housing prices, and this showed that two average incomes are currently needed to purchase an average-sized home. The average price for an existing home was 472,054 euros in April. Buyers would need a joint annual income of almost 100,000 euros to be able to loan this amount of money, De Hypotheker calculated.
I don’t follow, what’s your proposal for them?
Move to smaller houses, so that the larger houses become available for younger folks with families, so that they can leave the smaller houses, they become more available and become cheaper.
But as the other commenter says, this is really not the issue because the only thing this solves is folks raising families in small houses.