Landgoederenbuurt Zuid en West, Almere

Living in Landgoederenbuurt Zuid en West

Landgoederenbuurt Zuid en West is urban but not overwhelming, and most of its 519 homes are houses rather than apartments — front doors, gardens, street parking.

With just 3,547 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 Landgoederenbuurt Zuid en West

The average home value (WOZ) in Landgoederenbuurt Zuid en West is €441,000, which puts it at #40 of 165 neighborhoods in Almere — 17% pricier than most of the city. That premium is the location speaking. For scale: Almere's cheapest buurt averages €169,000 and its priciest €1,166,000, so Landgoederenbuurt Zuid en West sits among the city's pricier neighbourhoods.

The direction of the market: between 2022 and 2025 the average WOZ value here rose from €350,000 to €441,000, up 26% — roughly in step with the rest of the city. WOZ values lag the market by about a year, but the trend itself is reliable.

With 77% 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, Landgoederenbuurt Zuid en West is dominated by established households in the 45-to-65 bracket (30% of its 1,225 residents), followed by over-65s at 24%. Households split into 25% singles and 38% families with children — a real mix rather than one lifestyle. The average household counts 2.3 people.

As for who your neighbors would be: 34% of households are among the country's highest earners — which helps explain both the café density and the bidding behavior.

Daily errands, coffee and dinner

Day to day: plan your groceries: the nearest large supermarket is 0.7 km away; dining out means a short trip: only 1 café or restaurant sit within a kilometer.

The practical checklist most buyers forget to make: pharmacy 14 min walk · GP 13 min · hospital 4.3 km · library 1.6 km · 1 cinema within 5 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 10 minutes on foot; daycare is 0.8 km away — check waiting lists early, they are long everywhere in the Netherlands; secondary school is a 6-minute bike ride, which Dutch teenagers do in all weather.

Getting around

Getting around: the station is a 6-minute cycle, standard Dutch commuting range; a highway on-ramp 1.4 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 Landgoederenbuurt Zuid en West

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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