Morning papers converged on NVM figures showing the owner-occupied market cooling: more listings per seeker, price growth slowing to around €503,000 and less overbidding, though higher mortgage rates weighed on buyers and tightness persisted in Amsterdam West and Noord, with new-builds pricing themselves out at €40,000 above existing homes.
Attention shifted to Ukraine after a Russian glide bomb hit passenger buses in Kramatorsk, killing more than thirty, as Defence Minister Yesilgöz called Russia no longer the aggressor but ‘the enemy’, adding the Netherlands was not at war, a formulation that prompted Moscow to demand clarification.
The evening returned to the previous day’s Dam demonstration, with questions in parliament over the ‘We Support Hamas’ banner, discussion of whether new legislation could punish such expressions, and the cabinet’s plan for prison sentences.