Faunabuurt Zuidwest, Almere

Living in Faunabuurt Zuidwest

Faunabuurt Zuidwest is urban but not overwhelming, and the housing is dominated by single-family houses (100%), which is what draws settlers rather than passers-through.

At 6,191 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 Faunabuurt Zuidwest

At €398,000 average WOZ value, Faunabuurt Zuidwest ranks 45 out of 164 Almere neighborhoods on price — 14% above the city median. You pay for the location here. For scale: Almere's cheapest buurt averages €130,000 and its most expensive €1,212,000, so Faunabuurt Zuidwest sits in the middle band of the city.

The direction of the market: between 2022 and 2025 the average WOZ value here rose from €346,000 to €427,000, up 23% — slower than the city as a whole (+28%). WOZ values lag the market by about a year, but the trend itself is reliable.

With 96% 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, Faunabuurt Zuidwest is dominated by established households in the 45-to-65 bracket (37% of its 1,415 residents), followed by 25-to-45 year olds at 25%. 51% of households have children at home, so expect school runs, playgrounds in use, and neighbors who stay put. The average household counts 2.7 people.

As for who your neighbors would be: 39% of households sit in the country's top income bracket — which helps explain both the café density and the bidding behavior.

Daily errands, coffee and dinner

Day to day: the nearest large supermarket is about 5 minutes' walk; this is not a going-out neighborhood — the cafés are elsewhere.

The practical checklist most buyers forget to make: pharmacy 8 min walk · GP 5 min · hospital 5.0 km · library 1.8 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 (3 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 an 8-minute bike ride, which Dutch teenagers do in all weather.

Getting around

Getting around: the station is an 8-minute cycle, standard Dutch commuting range; a highway on-ramp 2.0 km away makes car trips easy — check whether through-traffic noise reaches the street you're considering; households here average 1.2 cars, so assume driveways and parking are part of daily logistics.

Energy and running costs

Since 100% of the stock predates 2000, always check the energy label of a specific listing — the difference between label C and label F on an average home here is easily a few thousand euros a year in heating, and it changes what you can sensibly bid.

Before you bid in Faunabuurt Zuidwest

Before you bid in Faunabuurt Zuidwest: family neighborhoods like this one turn over slowly; when a good house appears it often goes to the first serious, well-prepared bidder.

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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