DEN HAAG (ANP) - De prijs van een bestaande koopwoning lag in juni gemiddeld 4 procent hoger dan in dezelfde maand een jaar eerder, melden het Kadaster en het Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS). Ook op kwartaalbasis stegen de prijzen met 4 procent. Hoewel huizen nog altijd duurder worden, blijven de prijsstijgingen wel geleidelijk afnemen.
Na de piek van de huizenprijzen in juli 2022 volgde een periode van dalingen. Sinds juni 2023 is de trend echter weer opwaarts. In juni lagen de prijzen gemiddeld 17,3 procent boven het niveau van de vorige piek. De gemiddelde verkoopprijs van een bestaande koopwoning kwam uit op 496.235 euro.
Het Kadaster registreerde in juni meer dan 20.000 woningverkopen, bijna 8 procent meer dan een jaar eerder. In de eerste helft van 2026 wisselden bijna 115.000 bestaande koopwoningen van eigenaar, een stijging van zo'n 6 procent ten opzichte van dezelfde periode vorig jaar.
De prijsstijging zwakte de afgelopen maanden af doordat beleggers meer huurwoningen verkochten. Dat zogeheten uitponden werd onder meer veroorzaakt door strengere regels op de huurmarkt. Het aanbod aan koopwoningen nam hierdoor toe. Eerder deze maand stelde de Nederlandse Vereniging van Makelaars (NVM) nog dat de huizenprijzen harder kunnen stijgen als deze verkoopgolf weer afneemt.
Een auto is dinsdag van de weg geraakt en tegen een boom aan gereden. Dat gebeurde 's middags op de A29 bij Numansdorp. Wonderbaarlijk genoeg vielen de verwondingen van de bestuurder mee, maar de auto raakte flink beschadigd.
For years, her husband was adding sedatives to her evening cup of tea. Now, with fellow survivor Amanda Stanhope, she is lifting the lid on a hidden and diabolical crime
In September 2024, Amanda Stanhope watched, transfixed, from her home in Manchester, as the Gisèle Pelicot case made headlines around the world.
“Gisèle’s case was the first time I knew of somebody else who had been raped while they were drugged,” says Stanhope. “I remember feeling: ‘Thank God I’m not alone. There’s one other person in the world that this has happened to.’” Stanhope’s former partner, David Rogerson, was under investigation at the time for raping her while she slept, and filming the abuse. Pelicot’s husband, Dominique, would end up being convicted for drug-facilitated rape and sexual assault (DFSA), along with 50 strangers he had recruited online to abuse his wife.
Continue reading...Ray Exworth spent his life filling Cornish sheds with breathtaking sculptures – but wouldn’t let anyone in to view them. Now, after his death, his secret body of work has been revealed
Ray Exworth spent six decades creating one of Britain’s most extraordinary bodies of sculpture – and almost nobody has seen it. Hidden inside a labyrinth of sheds on a remote Cornish smallholding, his vast, obsessive constructions have remained locked away from the world, visited only by a fortunate few. Even his wife Susie, 92, was largely kept out. “I could not visit without an invitation!” she recalls.
Exworth, who died in 2015 aged 84, had just one major exhibition in his lifetime, at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1975. Since then, the man who might belong among Britain’s most notable artists has disappeared almost entirely. His works – sprawling, intricate and wildly ambitious, assembled from an array of salvaged materials – have remained exactly where he left them: filling seven studio sheds and a scattering of shipping containers, unseen.
Continue reading...Anger, guilt, shame: the deepest unseen wound of this war is the rift between those who left and those who stayed behind
“Can we reschedule?”
Over the years of working with western colleagues, I had learned to accept that they don’t fully understand what war feels like from the inside. They would ask me to find someone in occupied Mariupol for an interview, or seem genuinely puzzled that I couldn’t just log on at a time that suited them. I made my peace with this long ago – they don’t have to understand. But this time, it was a Ukrainian who asked.
Diana Berg is a Ukrainian artist, writer and cultural manager from Mariupol, and the founder of Platform TU, an independent cultural initiative now operating in exile after Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Continue reading...In April Japan coined new term kokushobi for days above 40C as country advises workers to wear shorts to the office to cope with stifling heat
Japan logged its first official kokushobi or “cruelly hot day” on Tuesday since the new term for when temperatures top 40 degrees Celsius was introduced in April. The Japan Meteorological Agency coined the new designation to warn the public of the heat dangers of days that were once freak weather events but have now become more common.
The central Japan cities of Gujo and Tajimi in Gifu prefecture, along with Toyota in Aichi prefecture, all hit 40C. Gujo’s 40C and Toyota’s 40.1C were all-time highs recorded at their respective weather stations.
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Rivieren, sloten en de zee: ieder water in Nederland heeft zijn eigen overheidsloket. Bestuurlijk is dat overzichtelijk, ecologisch slaat het nergens op – water stroomt. Het resultaat is dat al ons water te vervuild is. Alleen door het te zien als één systeem kunnen we dat veranderen.