Many vacant properties in the Netherlands: these are the figures in Zwolle
Lights out, shutters closed, not a single person in sight: on 1 January of this year, there were more than 206 thousand homes, offices and shops in the Netherlands. In the municipality of Zwolle, shop buildings were mainly collecting dust.
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It CBS charted the numbers. Eight percent of all office space was unused this year, according to the statistics agency. Eleven percent of the shops were empty and more than two percent of vacant homes.
Empty buildings in Zwolle
Some examples of vacant offices are Terborchstraat 1, Stationsweg 1-3 and Eekwal 3. There are also beautiful spots around the city center where there is still room for an extra shop. There are empty buildings at Thomas a Kempisstraat 5 and 48. Also on the Diezerplein and the Broerenstraat there are still empty buildings. In the Diezerstraat, Zwolle’s largest shopping street, there are also several addresses for rent. For example, in the places where the Vila and the Parfois used to be, at numbers 43 and 28.
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View the map below per municipality with the percentage of vacant houses, shops and offices. The figures were counted on January 1, 2021.
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When is a property empty?
A building is officially empty if no person is registered here according to the Basic Registration of Persons (BRP), if there is no user according to the WOZ and if no company is registered in the Trade Register. If there are houses, then no one will live in the houses. New-build homes that were completed just before 1 January, but where no one has yet moved in, are also included in these figures.
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