Bedrijventerrein De Rederij, Almere

Living in Bedrijventerrein De Rederij

Bedrijventerrein De Rederij is urban but not overwhelming, and living here overwhelmingly means apartment living — 100% of the stock is flats.

With just 3,170 residents per km², this is space by Dutch standards.

Almere is the Netherlands' youngest city — planned, spacious and car-friendly, with newer housing stock than almost anywhere else in the country. Many residents commute: Amsterdam is around 25 minutes by train, which is exactly the trade many buyers here have chosen.

The housing market in Bedrijventerrein De Rederij

The average home value (WOZ) in Bedrijventerrein De Rederij is €130,000, which puts it at #164 of 164 neighborhoods in Almere — 63% below the city median, leaving room in the budget that pricier neighborhoods would swallow. For scale: Almere's cheapest buurt averages €130,000 and its most expensive €1,212,000, so Bedrijventerrein De Rederij sits in the budget band of the city.

The direction of the market: between 2022 and 2025 the average WOZ value here rose from €137,000 to €209,000, up 53% — faster than the city as a whole (+28%). WOZ values lag the market by about a year, but the trend itself is reliable.

Only about 1 in 100 homes here is owner-occupied (71% is social housing) — supply on Funda is structurally thin, which concentrates bidding on the few listings that appear. If you find a home here you like, being prepared (financing check done, valuation lined up) is worth more than in neighborhoods where something new lists every week.

Who lives here

Demographically, Bedrijventerrein De Rederij is shaped by people in their late twenties to early forties (56% of its 110 residents), followed by 15-to-25 year olds at 35%. More than half of all households (86%) are single-person — this is a neighborhood of independents, not minivans. The average household counts 1.1 people.

Daily errands, coffee and dinner

Day to day: plan your groceries: the nearest large supermarket is 0.9 km away; dining out means a short trip: only 2 cafés or restaurants sit within a kilometer.

The practical checklist most buyers forget to make: pharmacy 12 min walk · GP 12 min · hospital 8.1 km · library 2.6 km. None of these will decide a purchase on their own, but a GP taking new patients nearby is the kind of thing you only miss after moving.

Families and schools

For families: the nearest primary school is 5 minutes on foot; daycare is well covered (8 locations nearby) — though Dutch waiting lists mean you register the week you know you're expecting, not the week you need it; secondary school is a 5-minute bike ride, which Dutch teenagers do in all weather.

Getting around

Getting around: the train station is 12 minutes on foot — commuting without a car is the natural choice; a highway on-ramp 1.3 km away makes car trips easy — check whether through-traffic noise reaches the street you're considering; and at 0.5 cars per household, most residents simply don't own one — if you do, factor in permit costs and waiting lists before you buy.

Energy and running costs

With 100% of homes built after 2000, insulation standards here are decent by default — but newer also means VvE service costs for apartments and less room to add value through renovation. Different math, not automatically better.

Before you bid in Bedrijventerrein De Rederij

Before you bid in Bedrijventerrein De Rederij: listings are scarce here, which pushes bidding above asking more often — decide your maximum before the viewing, not during it. Also, the price gap with the rest of Almere is real, but so is the reason for it — walk the neighborhood at different times of day before committing.

None of these averages can tell you whether the specific house you found is fairly priced — that depends on its size, energy label, state of maintenance and the recent sales around it. That is exactly what a free HomeReview report checks, in about 10 seconds, for any Dutch address.

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