Den Haag clears in three weeks - if the price is right

Housing market analysis from 4,173 observed sale listings, 28 March - 7 June 2026

Source: real-estate-nl scraper database (Funda) · Macro context: own investigation notes, Mar-May 2026 · Generated 7 June 2026

21 days
median listing → under offer
69%
under offer within 30 days
+22 days
under offer → sold
€5,072/m²
median, 3bd 100m²+ segment
758
3bd 100m²+ homes available now
1. How long from appearing on Funda to under offer?
Median 21 days to under offer, then a further median 22 days to registered sold. 69% of listings that sell go under offer within 30 days. details ↓
2. Which price range is the most active?
Under €300k by volume and speed (743 listings, 19-day median, 1.9 months of inventory); the whole sub-€600k market clears in 17-25 days. Activity collapses above €600k, with a liquidity pocket at €700-800k. details ↓
3. Why do some homes sit unsold past 30 days?
Overpricing against peers is the dominant pattern: stale listings sat a median 21% above their peer-group €/m², fast sellers 11% below. Half of the stale pool is premium new-build apartments. Price cuts did not rescue them. details ↓
4. Den Haag, 3 bedrooms, 100+ m²?
1,511 listings observed; marginally hotter than the city average (33 vs 39 days) but supply ran 2× absorption all spring - 758 available now. Houses moved in 22 days; apartments in 79. The €800k+ tier is slow and negotiable. details ↓
5. Worst buurten to sell?
Wateringse Veld (2544), Huygenspark/Stationsbuurt (2515) and Binckhorst (2516) - all apartment-glut zones. Prestige did not protect: Benoordenhout and Statenkwartier ranked slow, while "weak" Moerwijk and Transvaal sold fastest. details ↓
6. Which of the 10 shortlisted family buurten resells best in 2-3 years?
Houtwijk - liquid today, above-average WOZ growth, no competing new-build. Vruchtenbuurt is the value pick; Statenkwartier the safest store of value. Avoid Vroondaal for a 2-3 year horizon: ~600+ competing villas deliver through 2028. details ↓

1 · Three weeks to an offer, six weeks to a deal

Among the 298 listings the scraper watched move from available to under offer with a known publication date, the median gap was 21 days. The distribution has a sharp peak in week three and a long right tail: a quarter went under offer within 15 days, while one in ten waited 90 days or more. Apartments and houses had nearly identical medians (21 vs 22 days), but apartments carried the slow tail (mean 44 vs 26 days).

Most sales go under offer in week 2-4; past day 30 the odds collapse

Listings by days from Funda publication to under offer · clean cohort, n = 298

5 58 90 52 38 8 17 25 5 0-7 8-14 15-21 22-30 31-45 46-60 61-90 91-180 180+ days from publication to under offer 69% under offer by day 30 → median: 21 days the stale tail: 1 in 10 waits 90+ days
Bucket widths vary (7 to 90 days); bars show listing counts, not density. Cohort: listings first observed as available that later went under offer, with a resolvable publication date.

Going under offer is not the end of the line. Across 422 observed transitions, the gap from under offer to registered sold was a tight median of 22 more days (p90 = 43, max 62). End to end, a well-priced Den Haag home went from publication to closed sale in roughly six weeks.

Listed day 0 Under offer day 21 (median) Sold ~day 43 (+22 median)

Cohort honesty: a looser cohort of 471 (including listings first seen already under offer, with stale publication dates) shows a 39-day median. The 21-day figure describes homes the market actually wanted; the city-wide truth, including long-sitting stock, lies between the two.

2 · The market lives below €600k

Volume and speed concentrated at the affordable end. The sub-€300k band was the single most active slice of Den Haag: the most listings (743), the joint-fastest median time to offer (19 days), and the lowest months-of-inventory (1.9). Every band up to €600k cleared in 17-25 median days. Above €600k the market changed character: median time to offer jumped to 47 days, and above €800k to 156-205 days, with inventory piling up to 3.3-3.8 months of supply.

Activity concentrates under €600k; speed collapses above it

Den Haag buy listings by asking-price band · 28 Mar - 7 Jun 2026, n = 4,124 priced listings

LISTINGS OBSERVED WENT UNDER OFFER, % MEDIAN DAYS TO OFFER <€300k 300-350k 350-400k 400-450k 450-500k 500-600k 600-700k 700-800k 800k-1M €1M+ 743 373 458 317 345 443 327 239 329 550 47 47 40 43 44 40 38 47 38 36 19 25 20 23 24 21 47 47 156* 205* * thin sample (n = 38-103); directionally valid, slower
"Went under offer" counts any listing with at least one observed negotiations event. Months of inventory (available now ÷ under-offer flow per month): 1.9 below €300k, 2.3-2.9 through €600k, 3.3-3.8 above €800k. The €700-800k band is a pocket of strength: 47% went under offer, the best clearance above €600k.

Two structural notes. First, the sub-€600k engine is an apartment market (Den Haag buy stock is 83% apartments). Second, houses behaved differently: mid-band houses (€400-600k) had the highest sell-through in the entire dataset (46-57%), while €1M+ houses - the largest house pool, 243 listings - cleared at just 23%. Price cuts were rare everywhere (0.8-2.7% of listings per band): this market clears by going under offer, not by discounting.

3 · Past 30 days, the problem is the price, not the house

The 30-day boundary splits the market into two populations. Among listings with a known publication date, 208 went under offer within 30 days (FAST); 810 either sat past 30 days without an offer or eventually got one late (STALE). Comparing the two groups feature by feature, one pattern dominated all others.

Stale listings were priced 21% above their peers; fast sellers 11% below

Median premium vs peer-group €/m² (same property type × bedroom class) · FAST n = 208, STALE n = 810

0% = peer-group median €/m² Sold fast (≤30 days)  −11.2% +20.7%  Stale (>30 days)
69.6% of stale listings were priced above their peer-group median; only 28.4% of fast sellers were. The gap survives controlling for property type and size, so it is not a mix effect. Raw medians: stale €7,326/m² vs fast €4,752/m².

Who is doing the overpricing? Largely new-build developers. The construction-year profile of the stale pool is almost a mirror image of the fast pool:

Half the stale pool is post-2010 new-build; fast sellers are pre-war stock

Construction era, % of group

<1945 54.8 14.4 1945-1970 13.9 3.0 1971-1990 5.8 2.1 1991-2010 19.7 9.2 >2010 4.3 53.2 new-build glut unknown 1.4 18.2 ■ sold ≤30d ■ stale >30d
54% of stale listings also lack an energy label - because new-build units get one only at delivery. Among labeled listings the energy story reverses: fast sellers had MORE D-or-worse labels (24.6%) than stale ones (16.7%). A bad label did not slow a sale; a developer's premium did.

The patterns, ranked

  1. Overpriced vs peers - stale: +20.7% over peer €/m²; fast: −11.2% under. The strongest single signal.
  2. New-build / off-plan stock - 53% of stale was built after 2010 (vs 4% of fast); premium-priced developer units in Binckhorst, Wateringse Veld, Scheveningen-Haven define the stale pool.
  3. Small premium apartments - stale is 87.5% apartments, 57% with 1-2 bedrooms. The liquid sweet spot was 75-100 m² mid-market stock.
  4. Bimodal size trap - both ends stall: premium-small units and 150+ m² luxury (23% of stale vs 12% of fast). Villas and herenhuizen above €1M sit longest.
  5. Price cuts mark distress, they do not fix it - only 2.5% of stale listings cut price at all (median cut 3.9%), and cutters subsequently reached an offer just 5% of the time, against 33% for stale listings that never cut. The cut signals an overpriced listing whose problem ran deeper than the asking line.
  6. Relisting - a weak secondary marker: 4.7% of stale vs 2.4% of fast.
  7. Energy label - a red herring in this window (see chart caption above).

4 · Your segment: 3+ bedrooms, 100+ m²

The scraper observed 1,511 such listings: 758 still available, 360 under offer, 178 sold, 215 withdrawn or delisted. The segment ran slightly hotter than the city as a whole (median 33 vs 39 days to offer; 46% vs 44% under offer within 30 days) - a modest edge, not a frenzy. The defining feature was on the supply side: every week brought roughly twice as many new segment listings as offers absorbed.

New supply outran absorption ~2× every week this spring

3bd 100m²+ segment, weekly counts · weeks of 6 Apr - 1 Jun 2026

50 100 150 Apr 6 Apr 20 May 4 May 18 Jun 1 New listings 157/wk Went under offer 84/wk supply: 88-178 new listings/week absorption: 33-89 offers/week
The scraper's first week (30 Mar, 284 "new" listings) was cold-start backlog and is excluded. Available segment stock (758) now exceeds everything that went under offer or sold in the whole window (538). For a buyer this is patience-friendly: the pool refills faster than it drains.

Where the segment is fast and where it is soft

SliceListingsSell-throughMedian days to offerRead
Houses69535%22fast, consistent
Apartments81636%79dragged by €800k+ new-build pool
<€500k23534%21*thin offer sample (n = 13)
€500-600k24143%20hottest band
€600-700k18639%26hot
€700-800k17345%27hot
€800k+67530%205slow, negotiable, biggest available pool

Pricing benchmarks: the segment's median asking was €750k at €5,072/m², but the currently available stock skews higher (€849k, €5,147/m²) because well-priced homes already cleared. An A/B energy label carried only a ~5.7% €/m² premium over D-or-worse (€4,897 vs €4,634) - energy efficiency was barely priced in this spring, consistent with the mortgage-rate discount (3.66% vs 3.81%) being the bigger green incentive.

Longest-sitting available listings (resale only)

The raw stale list is topped entirely by off-plan ScheveningenHaven "Bouwnr." project units (up to 764 days) - developer inventory, not bargains. After excluding new-build project units, these resale listings have sat the longest. Per the bid-strategy framework, listings past 4-6 weeks justify ask-or-lower offers with clean financing.

AddressBuurtAsking€/m²BdLabelDaysCut
Duinweg 97-€2.75M3807,2373A269-
Wassenaarseweg 12-€2.53M3187,9405A261-
Stavangerstraat 84Hoge Veld€695,0001464,7604A212-
Groenland 10Lage Veld€740,0001634,5403A212-
Theo Mann-Bouwmeesterlaan 88Duinzigt€670,0001763,8073C212-
Benoordenhoutseweg 245-€1.30M2944,4186D194−46k
Stadhouderslaan 80-F-€1.45M2655,4723A185-
Oosterhesselenstraat 325Morgenstond-West€559,0001753,1947A+170-
Randveen 726-€1.04M1496,9803A+160-
Assendelftstraat 32Kortenbos€595,0001793,3247C153−54k
Newtonstraat 385-€515,0001154,4784D145-
Columbusstraat 273Valkenboskwartier€675,0001315,1534C129-
Forellendaal 604-€375,0001173,2053B121-
Dieverstraat 35Morgenstond-West€650,0001344,8514A+110-
Parallelweg 354-€499,5001214,1283A109-

The two with actual price cuts - Assendelftstraat 32 (−€54k, 153 days) and Benoordenhoutseweg 245 (−€46k, 194 days) - are the clearest motivated sellers on the list. Note from the stale-pattern analysis: a listing that cut and still sits usually has a deeper problem than price.

Buurt supply within the segment

BuurtListingsAvailableSell-throughMedian asking€/m²
Parkbuurt Oosteinde211424%€649,5004,563
Houtwijk17759%€539,0004,496
Erasmus Veld13831%€700,0004,575
Morgenweide12633%€585,0004,603
Singels12633%€595,0004,380
De Vissen11455%€639,0004,520
Morgenstond-West11636%€565,0004,507
Scheveningen Badplaats1199%€695,0004,852
Hoge Veld10910%€695,0004,461
Statenkwartier9267%€745,0005,216
Valkenboskwartier9511%€699,0005,040
Zeeheldenkwartier9533%€632,5004,865
Zonne Veld9356%€550,0004,375
Bezuidenhout-Oost7257%€675,0004,360

Statenkwartier and Bezuidenhout-Oost are tight: high sell-through, almost nothing left. Scheveningen Badplaats and Hoge Veld are the most buyer-favorable pockets - 9 of 11 and 9 of 10 still available. 221 segment listings lack buurt attribution and are excluded; samples are small, treat as directional.

5 · Worst buurten to sell: the glut zones, not the "bad" areas

Buurt names are only attributed on 9% of listings, so this ranking groups by postcode-4 (100% coverage), labeled with the dominant buurt. The result contradicts intuition: socioeconomic reputation did not predict sale difficulty. What predicted it was apartment oversupply and premium pricing.

Hardest to sell: new-build glut zones; easiest: cheap "weak-reputation" districts

Share of listings that went under offer or sold, by postcode area · window 28 Mar - 7 Jun 2026

city average ~42% HARDEST TO SELL 2544 · Wateringse Veld 9% 2515 · Huygenspark / Stationsbuurt 18% 2521 · Laakhaven-West* 22% 2516 · Binckhorst 23% 2511 · Uilebomen (Centrum)* 26% 2585 · Duinoord / Zeeheldenkw. edge* 29% 2512 · Kortenbos* 32% 2513 · Zeeheldenkwartier* 33% 2583 · Scheveningen-Dorp* 35% 2586 · Scheveningen Badplaats 39% 2596 · Benoordenhout* 40% 2561 · Valkenboskwartier* 42% EASIEST TO SELL 2522 · Laakkwartier-Oost 55% 2547 · Leyenburg 57% 2531 · Moerwijk-Noord* 59% 2551 · Nieuw Waldeck 60% 2542 · Bouwlust / Vrederust* 63% 2581 · Geuzenkwartier* 63% 2543 · Zijden / Steden / Zichten* 73% 2498 · De Bras (Ypenburg)* 79% 0% 40% 80%
* = thin sample in one or more sub-metrics; read as directional. Sell-through = share reaching negotiations or sold (by status or any observed event). Postcode areas with fewer than 12 listings excluded. Sell-through is the most robust metric available; per-area median days-to-offer rests on 1-8 observations and is not shown.

Why the worst three are stuck

The reputation reversal is the headline insight. Moerwijk - statistically the weakest district in Den Haag - ranked among the easiest places to sell (59% sell-through), with Transvaal and Laakkwartier close behind. Cheap stock (€297-350k, ~€4,000/m²) met the deepest pool of buyers. Meanwhile Benoordenhout and Statenkwartier appeared on the hard-to-sell side - partly a genuine premium-stock slowdown (€1M+ homes cleared at 23-35%), partly a data artifact in how long-lived luxury listings are tracked. For a seller the lesson read: liquidity lives where the buyers are, and in spring 2026 the buyers were below €600k.

Scheveningen Badplaats (2586) deserves a flag: large sample, 39% sell-through, and the city's highest price-cut rate (5.7%) - sellers there were actively capitulating. Combined with the segment table above (9% sell-through for 3bd 100m²+), Scheveningen is the most negotiation-friendly coastal pocket.

6 · The family shortlist: ten buurten compared

After visiting, the shortlist settled on six Den Haag buurten (Duinzigt, Statenkwartier, Kraayenstein en Vroondaal, Houtwijk, Vruchtenbuurt, Rietbuurt) and four in Leidschendam-Voorburg (De Zijde, Sijtwende, Voorburg Noord noord, Voorburg Oud noord). Three data sources were combined per buurt: listing metrics from the scraper DB (samples of 1-18 listings each - directional, not statistical), CBS buurt statistics 2021-2025 (WOZ values, ownership, income), and external research on new-build pipelines, price momentum and livability. The question framing: buy now to live, with a credible option to resell in 2028-29.

BuurtAsk €/m²Sell-throughWOZ CAGR ’21-’25Competing supply 2027-29Resale verdict
Houtwijk4,47261% (11/18)14.0%none nearby (Zuidwest is elsewhere)#1 - liquid, growing, insulated
Vruchtenbuurt3,99650% (4/8)11.8%none#2 - value entry · foundation check
Statenkwartier5,68267% (6/9)9.5%minimal - heritage-constrained#3 - safest, slowest growth
Sijtwende5,6111/1 (14 days)11.4%built outgood profile, one data point
Rietbuurt4,9632/3 real†10.1%minimalmodern (2010), scarce, data-thin
Duinzigt5,10444% (4/9)9.7%minimalsoft now - stock sits 44-212 days
Voorburg Oud noord4,6370/410.5%moderate - LV waveholds value, won’t outgrow
De Zijde4,5250/610.7%moderate - Klein Plaspoelpolder ~350stagnant now - negotiate
Voorburg Noord noord5,2530/216.8%*high - Park070 (229) lands heretram upside arrives post-2029
Kraayenstein en Vroondaal4,57720% (1/5)17.3%*highest - ~600+ villas to 2028avoid for 2-3y resale

Sell-through = reached negotiations/sold in the 28 Mar - 7 Jun window; per-buurt samples are tiny. † Rietbuurt’s raw count (7) includes 4 mis-tagged rental duplicates of one address; only 3 genuine sale listings exist, 2 of which went under offer. * CAGR inflated by new-build composition (Vroondaal: population +68% since 2021) or a low starting base (Voorburg Noord) - not scarcity appreciation.

Only the redevelopment outliers beat their gemeente average; Houtwijk leads the established buurten

Average WOZ value growth per buurt, CAGR 2021-2025 (CBS) · WOZ trails the live market by ~18 months

gemeente avg 12.7-13.4% Kraayenstein en Vroondaal* 17.3* Voorburg Noord noord* 16.8* Houtwijk 14.0 Vruchtenbuurt 11.8 Sijtwende 11.4 De Zijde 10.7 Voorburg Oud noord 10.5 Rietbuurt 10.1 Duinzigt 9.7 Statenkwartier 9.5 0% 5% 10% 15% * low-base / new-build composition artifact - not scarcity appreciation
CBS average WOZ per buurt, 2021 vs 2025 reference years (a 4-step valuation span). Established premium buurten (Statenkwartier, Duinzigt, Voorburg Oud) grew slower than their gemeente - classic high-base compression, the same pattern Section 5 found city-wide.

Why Houtwijk wins the 2-3 year resale question

Liquidity in 2028-29 will live where buyers are deepest and competing supply is thinnest. Houtwijk scored on every axis: it sold fast in the observation window (raw times-to-offer of 13, 14, 20 and 31 days), its WOZ grew above the Den Haag average (14.0% vs 13.4%), its €537k median sits in the deepest buyer pool (Section 2), the 1980s stock carries no foundation or energy-label capex, and Den Haag Zuidwest’s 10,000-home plan concentrates away from it. Its one weak CBS signal - the lowest income on the shortlist (€32k) - did not hurt; Section 5 showed cheap, liquid areas outsell prestigious ones.

Vroondaal is the mirror image. The Madestein plan allows up to ~2,100 homes; De Dames van Vroondaal (331), Meester van Vroondaal (~150) and the Noord/Zuid tail (~127) keep delivering new villas in exactly the €600-800k family segment through 2028. A resale there competes with the developer’s show home. The buurt also showed the widest pricing chaos on the list (€3,548-5,577/m², a 57% spread between resale and new-build units). The Leidschendam-Voorburg buurten share a softer version of the same timing problem: LV appreciated fastest in 2024-25 (+13% YoY), flattened first in early 2026, and its project wave (Landgoed Voorlei 325, Park070 229, Vlietvoorde 150, De Star 173) peaks 2027-28 - new supply arriving precisely in the resale window. Voorburg Noord gets a real tailwind from the De Vlietlijn tram and Binckhorst spillover, but construction runs 2026-2029: the nuisance lands during the hold, the benefit after it.

Fair vs stretched pricing

De Zijde negotiation note (object-11): Patrijslaan 64 at €769k / €5,196/m² was priced at the top of its own street while direct comps sat unsold - Patrijslaan 24 (€648.5k, 124 m², 30 days) and Patrijslaan 109 (€659k, 154 m², 38 days, label D). With zero De Zijde listings under offer in the window, the bid framework reads this as open-onderhandeling drifting toward stale: the A-label earns a premium over the neighbours, not urgency pricing.

Currently available family homes (3+ bd, 100+ m²) in the shortlist

BuurtAddressAsking€/m²BdLabelDays
De ZijdePutterlaan 11€575,0001244,6374C4
De ZijdePatrijslaan 24€648,5001245,2304C30
De ZijdePatrijslaan 109€659,0001544,2794D38
De ZijdeMerellaan 14€725,0001724,2155B6
De ZijdePatrijslaan 64 (object-11)€769,0001485,1965A16
DuinzigtTheo Mann-Bouwmeesterlaan 88€670,0001763,8073C212
DuinzigtElse Mauhslaan 189€695,0001773,9273B51
DuinzigtVan Alkemadelaan 257€695,0001305,3463C47
DuinzigtVan Neckstraat 135€750,0001455,1724D44
HoutwijkJ. Boezerstraat 25€495,0001094,5413C-
HoutwijkDr. R.J. Fruinstraat 91€495,0001204,1253C-
HoutwijkQ.A. Nederpelstraat 63€525,0001403,7505C12
HoutwijkDr. J. Presserstraat 66€525,0001184,4494C11
HoutwijkDr. J. Presserstraat 299€575,0001194,8324C18
HoutwijkB. Thoenplantsoen 52€599,5001234,8743C23
HoutwijkLaan van der Kroft 26€635,0001414,5044B94
Kraayenstein/VroondaalSteurendaal 32€550,0001553,5485C52
Kraayenstein/VroondaalKarperdaal 79€555,5551393,9975D33
Kraayenstein/VroondaalDoris Lessinglaan 35€725,0001305,5774A++++17
Kraayenstein/VroondaalThomas Mannsingel 97€850,0001724,9425A-
RietbuurtVlietpolderstraat 12€675,0001364,9634A+18
StatenkwartierCornelis de Wittlaan 35-B€665,0001474,5243D66
StatenkwartierVan Dorpstraat 22-A€750,0001834,0987F6
Voorburg Noord noordKoningin Wilhelminalaan 527€589,0001204,9083D4
Voorburg Oud noordEmmastraat 1€475,0001164,0954E-
Voorburg Oud noordOosterloostraat 8€625,0001454,3105E9
Voorburg Oud noordVlietwijck 4€700,0001414,9654B12
Voorburg Oud noordOosteinde 64-B€745,0001455,1384A30
VruchtenbuurtThorbeckelaan 457€625,0001983,1576D55
VruchtenbuurtDruivenstraat 29€750,0001744,3106D12
VruchtenbuurtMient 539€725,0001674,3414A1

Days = days on market as of 7 June 2026 ("-" = publication date unknown). Sijtwende had no available family listings - its only observed listing went under offer in 14 days. Stale candidates per the bid framework (>4-6 weeks): Theo Mann-Bouwmeesterlaan 88 (212 days), Laan van der Kroft 26 (94), Cornelis de Wittlaan 35-B (66), Thorbeckelaan 457 (55), Steurendaal 32 (52), Else Mauhslaan 189 (51).

Shortlist risk checklist before bidding

The macro frame around these ten weeks

Context from the parallel investigation notes (March-May 2026): the national market was in mid-cycle expansion - prices +5.0% YoY with transactions +12.9% YoY, an unusual combination of rising prices and rising volume. Den Haag lagged the national index by 1-3pp through 2024-25. Mortgage rates held at 3.81% for 10-year fixed (3.66% effective with an A-label sustainability discount), well below the 2024 peak of 4.5%. The base-case scenario (50-60% probability) was a continued +3-6%/year grind; at +0.3%/month, six months of waiting costs €12-18k on a €550-600k purchase.

The database confirms the bid framework adopted in May. Days-on-market above 30 is exactly where under-offer odds collapse (Section 3), and the stock that survives past that line is overpriced by ~21% against peers - the ask-or-lower territory the framework prescribed. On the other side, the confirmed loss at Brasemdaal 85 (bid +1.7%, winner +4.2%) sits squarely in the hot sub-€600k band where this report measures 20-27 day clearance - the segment where +3-7% overbids are the price of winning.

Buyer playbook, condensed

Methodology and caveats