Towers filled with luxury homes and offering extras like private gyms, coffee bars, dry cleaning services, and a concierge for receiving packages are increasingly common in the Netherlands, and in the Randstad in particular. Paying over a million euros for an apartment in one of these complexes is no exception, and service fees commonly run into the hundreds of euros, AD . The newspaper visited the open day for The Mayor residential complex in Amstelveen and witnessed a young family buy a 174-square meter villa with a south-facing yard for 1.
5 million euros. “There were so many candidates for this house,” Onno van Denzen of project developer De Nijs told AD. “Whoever signed first got it.
” The Mayor is located along the A9, where KPMG’s headquarters stood until 2008. After years of vacancy, the building was converted into this complex with 315 luxury homes selling for between 1.5 and 2.
25 million euros. Most were sold before the building was completed. The Amsterdam region has several other newly built complexes, like The Mayor, catering to people with more borrowing capacity than the average Netherlands resident.
These include Elements and De Oosterlanden, the apartments of which are now for sale. Most cost more than a million euros, and none are cheaper than 600,000 euros. Rotterdam has Bay House on the Rijnhaven, with apartments between 1.
09 and 2.54 million euros. “There are several places in the Netherlands where you can do this kind of thing on such a scale,�.