Amstel III deel A/B-Zuid, Amsterdam

Living in Amstel III deel A/B-Zuid

Amstel III deel A/B-Zuid is densely built and genuinely urban, and this is apartment territory: only about 1 in 100 homes is a house.

At 7,072 residents per km² the buurt is busy without being packed.

Amsterdam is the tightest housing market in the Netherlands: international workers, students and families chase the same limited stock, overbidding is routine in popular price bands, and a large social-housing sector keeps much of the city permanently off the open market. Where a buurt sits relative to the ring road (A10) and a metro or tram line explains a surprising share of its price.

The housing market in Amstel III deel A/B-Zuid

At €187,000 average WOZ value, Amstel III deel A/B-Zuid ranks 420 out of 424 Amsterdam neighborhoods on price — 63% below the city median, leaving room in the budget that pricier neighborhoods would swallow. For scale: Amsterdam's cheapest buurt averages €58,000 and its most expensive €2,250,000, so Amstel III deel A/B-Zuid sits in the budget band of the city.

The direction of the market: between 2023 and 2025 the average WOZ value here rose from €187,000 to €188,000, up 1% — roughly in step with the rest of the city. WOZ values lag the market by about a year, but the trend itself is reliable.

Here is the catch for buyers: only 0% of homes are owner-occupied. Few homes come up for sale, so when one does, expect competition and act fast on viewings. The upside of the same number: neighborhoods with a big rental base tend to feel lively and transient rather than settled — decide which you want before you fall for a listing.

Who lives here

Demographically, Amstel III deel A/B-Zuid is a young-adult neighborhood — the 25-to-45 group outnumbers everyone else (56% of its 2,505 residents), followed by 15-to-25 year olds at 40%. More than half of all households (81%) are single-person — this is a neighborhood of independents, not minivans. The average household counts 1.2 people.

As for who your neighbors would be: incomes skew modest — 74% of households are in the lower national bracket.

Daily errands, coffee and dinner

Day to day: plan your groceries: the nearest large supermarket is 0.6 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 5 min · hospital 0.5 km · library 3.4 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 17 minutes on foot; daycare is 0.5 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 train station is 11 minutes on foot — commuting without a car is the natural choice; a highway on-ramp 0.9 km away makes car trips easy — check whether through-traffic noise reaches the street you're considering; and at 0.3 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 98% 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 Amstel III deel A/B-Zuid

Before you bid in Amstel III deel A/B-Zuid: 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 Amsterdam 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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