Buitenhof en Groenhof, Almere

Living in Buitenhof en Groenhof

Buitenhof en Groenhof is urban but not overwhelming, and most of its 288 homes are houses rather than apartments — front doors, gardens, street parking.

At 4,201 residents per km² the buurt is busy without being packed.

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 Buitenhof en Groenhof

At €326,000 average WOZ value, Buitenhof en Groenhof ranks 99 out of 164 Almere neighborhoods on price — 7% 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 Buitenhof en Groenhof sits in the middle band of the city.

The direction of the market: between 2015 and 2025 the average WOZ value here rose from €135,000 to €370,000, up 174% — faster than the city as a whole (+105%). WOZ values lag the market by about a year, but the trend itself is reliable.

With 97% of homes owner-occupied, this is a settled buyers' neighborhood — homes change hands regularly, and you can usually find recent comparable sales on the same street to anchor your bid. Settled also means slower: owners here tend to stay, so the best houses may only list once a decade.

Who lives here

Demographically, Buitenhof en Groenhof is dominated by established households in the 45-to-65 bracket (27% of its 660 residents), followed by over-65s at 26%. Households split into 31% singles and 36% families with children — a real mix rather than one lifestyle. The average household counts 2.2 people.

As for who your neighbors would be: incomes are broadly middle-of-the-road (24% high-income, 23% low-income households).

Daily errands, coffee and dinner

Day to day: the nearest large supermarket is about 12 minutes' walk; dining out means a short trip: only 4 cafés or restaurants sit within a kilometer.

The practical checklist most buyers forget to make: pharmacy 11 min walk · GP 13 min · hospital 5.2 km · library 1.3 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 7 minutes on foot; daycare is 0.8 km away — check waiting lists early, they are long everywhere in the Netherlands; secondary school is a 5-minute bike ride, which Dutch teenagers do in all weather.

Getting around

Getting around: the nearest train station is 4.7 km out, so day-to-day life here leans on the car or bus; the nearest highway on-ramp is 2.1 km away; households here average 1.1 cars, so assume driveways and parking are part of daily logistics.

Energy and running costs

100% of homes were built before 2000. Two identical-looking houses on the same street can differ by hundreds of euros a month once heating is counted — the energy label tells you which one you're looking at, and lenders increasingly price it into your mortgage too.

Before you bid in Buitenhof en Groenhof

Before you bid in Buitenhof en Groenhof: with many older residents, more homes will come to market here over the coming years than the recent past suggests — patience can pay.

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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