Seizoenenbuurt Noord, Almere

Living in Seizoenenbuurt Noord

Seizoenenbuurt Noord is town feel without the crowds — amenities close by, calm on the street, and the housing is dominated by single-family houses (100%), which is what draws settlers rather than passers-through.

With just 2,182 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 Seizoenenbuurt Noord

At €576,000 average WOZ value, Seizoenenbuurt Noord ranks 15 out of 165 Almere neighborhoods on price — 53% pricier than most of the city. You pay for the location here. For scale: Almere's cheapest buurt averages €169,000 and its priciest €1,166,000, so Seizoenenbuurt Noord sits among the city's pricier neighbourhoods.

The direction of the market: between 2022 and 2025 the average WOZ value here rose from €452,000 to €576,000, up 27% — 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 99% 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, Seizoenenbuurt Noord is dominated by established households in the 45-to-65 bracket (43% of its 1,000 residents), followed by 25-to-45 year olds at 17%. 45% of households have children at home, so expect school runs, playgrounds in use, and neighbors who stay put. The average household counts 2.6 people.

As for who your neighbors would be: 49% 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 0.8 km away; this is not a going-out neighborhood — the cafés are elsewhere.

The practical checklist most buyers forget to make: pharmacy 18 min walk · GP 17 min · hospital 7.7 km · library 2.1 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 11 minutes on foot; daycare is 0.9 km away — check waiting lists early, they are long everywhere in the Netherlands; secondary school is a 10-minute bike ride, which Dutch teenagers do in all weather.

Getting around

Getting around: the station is a 7-minute cycle, standard Dutch commuting range; a highway on-ramp 0.9 km away makes car trips easy — check whether through-traffic noise reaches the street you're considering; households here average 1.5 cars, so assume driveways and parking are part of daily logistics.

Before you bid in Seizoenenbuurt Noord

Before you bid in Seizoenenbuurt Noord: in a premium buurt the risk isn't buying a bad home, it's overpaying for a good one — anchor your bid on recent sales of comparable homes, not on the asking price. Also, 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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