Netherlands

Economic Freedom Rating, 5-Yr Change - Netherlands Compared to Continent

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Albania	11.51%
Austria	3.52%
Belarus	12.42%
Belgium	4.94%
Bosnia & H.	32.31%
Bulgaria	10.38%
Croatia	2.49%
Cyprus	-2.75%
Czech Rep.	1.56%
Denmark	8.24%
Estonia	0.05%
Finland	1.54%
France	10.46%
Germany	2.03%
Greece	2.11%
Hungary	6.67%
Iceland	4.10%
Ireland	1.76%
Italy	-2.85%
Latvia	3.56%
Lithuania	1.65%
Luxembourg	-5.93%
Macedonia	1.72%
Malta	8.03%
Moldova	-2.65%
Netherlands	2.94%
Norway	2.60%
Poland	-3.77%
Portugal	-0.99%
Romania	21.55%
Russia	-1.79%
Slovak Rep.	16.54%
Slovenia	4.93%
Spain	1.27%
Sweden	0.53%
Switzerland	0.91%
Turkey	17.08%
UK	2.67%
Ukraine	-0.04%

 

 

Netherlands: Economic freedom index, 5-year change

Increased economic freedom is strongly associated with high GDP growth, and therefore with rises in residential property prices. Changes in a countrys score on the Heritage Foundations freedom index are calculated by the Global Property Guide to produce a 5-point rating:

• Greatly Improved
• Improved
• Nuetral
• Worse
• Much Worse

Source: Calculated using figures from The Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal

 

The Netherlands has good housing statistics. Die Nederlandsche Bank (Central Bank) publishes the prices of new and existing one-family houses and flats, based on land registry data, in quarterly format. General economics statistics are from Statistics Netherlands.