Amsterdam, Netherlands
For EUR 3.70 and no eligibility test, the Dutch cadastre will tell anyone who owns a given parcel in Amsterdam and what the last deed said it sold for — the cheapest complete answer in Europe, sitting on top of a free national register that already gives every building's floor area, age and cadastral key.
8 buildings · 1 with an owner established · 9 sources · 8 tier A · prepared 2026-09-27
Ownership in the Netherlands sits in the Basisregistratie Kadaster, run by the Kadaster, and anyone may buy a single parcel's record from the public webshop without stating a reason or proving an interest. The product is called Eigendomsinformatie, it costs EUR 3.70, and the Kadaster's own page lists what it contains: who the owner is, who may use all or part of it, what restrictions apply (for example whether the building is a monument), whether erfpacht — a ground lease, which is pervasive in Amsterdam — burdens the parcel, the cadastral size, and the sale price from the most recent transfer deed where it is known. A companion product, Koopsominformatie, also EUR 3.70, returns per-dwelling sale prices with house numbers across a whole postcode for private purchases since 1 January 2003. What is free is everything except the name: the BAG address and buildings register publishes each building's year of construction, floor area in square metres and use type nationwide through an open API, and the national location service returns the cadastral parcel identifier for any address — which is exactly the key you then pay EUR 3.70 to resolve. Bulk owner data exists as BRK Levering, a commercial subscription with privacy conditions, so it cannot be republished.
The marquee buildings
The towers that set the tone of the core, and who holds them. A price is the price a document states, on the date it states — not an estimate of what the building is worth now.
| Building | Use | Owner | Owner type | Last price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valley Beethovenstraat 301-781, 1083 HK Amsterdam (Zuidas) 75,000 m2 gross floor area |
Mixed use | Not established a paid title search would answer it Designed by Winy Maas of MVRDV and developed by EDGE Technologies, completion Q1 2023, WELL Gold, 120 parking spaces; tenants named on EDGE's page include Greenberg Traurig, Miele, Bridgestone and IK Partners. BAG records the building as pand 0363100100093252-era construction year 2021 with 234 addressable units combining woonfunctie, kantoorfunctie, winkelfunctie and sportfunctie. Cadastral parcel ASD30-AK-4995 — the key that resolves the owner for EUR 3.70. EDGE's page names it as developer, not owner. |
Not established | —A |
| Gustav Mahlerlaan 10 (ABN AMRO head office site) Gustav Mahlerlaan 10, 1082 PP Amsterdam (Zuidas) 66,581 m2 |
Office | Not established a paid title search would answer it The largest single office floorplate found in Zuidas on the open register: BAG pand 0363100012146659, one addressable unit of 66,581 m2, gebruiksdoel kantoorfunctie, construction year 1999. Cadastral parcel ASD30-AK-5287. BAG gives the size and the age for nothing and deliberately withholds the name. |
Not established | —A |
| RAI Amsterdam exhibition halls Europaplein 24, 1078 GZ Amsterdam 68,177 m2 |
Mixed use | Not established a paid title search would answer it BAG pand 0363100012112165, gebruiksdoel bijeenkomstfunctie, construction year 1960, a single addressable unit of 68,177 m2 — the largest single-unit building found in this survey of Amsterdam. Cadastral parcel ASD18-V-11776. |
Not established | —A |
| Johan Cruijff ArenA Johan Cruijff Boulevard 1, 1101 AX Amsterdam 59,217 m2 largest unit |
Mixed use | Not established a paid title search would answer it BAG pand 0363100012075730, construction year 1996, 11 addressable units spanning sportfunctie, kantoorfunctie, winkelfunctie and bijeenkomstfunctie. It stands on three cadastral parcels — WPK02-M-770, WPK02-M-494 and WPK02-M-492 — so establishing ownership of the whole site means buying three records, not one. The stadium's own site 404s on its about page. |
Not established | —A |
| Rijksmuseum Museumstraat 1, 1071 XX Amsterdam 38,149 m2 |
Mixed use | Not established a paid title search would answer it BAG pand 0363100012237298, gebruiksdoel bijeenkomstfunctie, construction year 1885 — Cuypers' building as the register sees it, one addressable unit of 38,149 m2 on a single parcel, ASD14-R-5517. A second pand from 2013 on the same address carries no recorded area, which is how BAG treats the underground entrance works. |
Not established | —A |
| De Bijenkorf, Dam Dam 1, 1012 JS Amsterdam 23,820 m2 |
Retail | Not established a paid title search would answer it BAG pand 0363100012168052, gebruiksdoel winkelfunctie, construction year 1914, a single addressable unit of 23,820 m2 — and it sits across two cadastral parcels, ASD04-F-6417 and ASD04-F-7285. The address also carries a 1971 hotel-and-assembly building of up to 5,273 m2. |
Not established | —A |
| Amstelplein 1 (Rembrandt Tower complex) Amstelplein 1, 1096 HA Amsterdam (De Omval) 42,754 m2 |
Office | Not established a paid title search would answer it BAG pand 0363100012070861, gebruiksdoel kantoorfunctie, construction year 2001, one unit of 42,754 m2; the same address carries a 1995 office-and-assembly building of 30,506 m2. Cadastral parcel WTG02-A-4624. |
Not established | —A |
| NSI N.V.'s Amsterdam office portfolio Hoogoorddreef 62, 1101 BE Amsterdam (registered office) |
Office | NSI N.V. NSI's own portfolio page states: 'Our current portfolio consists of 41 buildings, with a primary focus on Amsterdam and selectively on the best locations in other major cities in the Netherlands. In addition to a strong core of 33 office assets, we own five Life Science buildings.' Its in-house flex operator HNK runs nine locations with a tenth coming. The page filters by Amsterdam city centre, South Axis, South East and Sloterdijk but renders the building list client-side, so the individual assets could not be read. |
REIT | —A |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Amsterdam is the one city in this section where the state publishes the composition of ownership even though it charges for the names. CBS breaks the whole dwelling stock down by class of owner every year, so the shape of who owns the city is a free official statistic and only the individual owner is paid for.
Who builds the houses
New-home building in this market: the volume, and the firms behind it. Ownership of a builder matters as much as its volume — a private-equity platform and a family firm behave differently.
The Netherlands publishes no builder league table — there is no Dutch equivalent of the HIA Housing 100, the listed builders' investor pages are behind Cloudflare, and not one Amsterdam housing corporation served an openable page stating how many homes it owns. What the state does publish, annually and for free, is the far more useful thing: who owns the stock, by class of owner. That is the table below. It says something a builder ranking would not, which is that Amsterdam is not a merchant-builder market at all: two in every five homes in the city belong to a housing corporation, and the fastest-growing landlord class is not individuals buying flats but companies, up 10,725 dwellings in four years while individual landlords went backwards.
| Name | Type | Amsterdam dwellings owned, 2025 (change since 2021) |
|---|---|---|
| Housing corporations (woningcorporaties) The regulated social landlords. 39.2% of the entire Amsterdam dwelling stock, and the principal commissioner of new social housing in the city. |
Institution | 191,010 (+6,300)A |
| Owner-occupiers (koopwoningen) 30.5% of the stock. The largest absolute gain of any class since 2021, reflecting both new build and corporation sell-offs. |
Private company | 148,400 (+18,525)A |
| Companies — BVs and NVs Private and public limited companies letting residential property: the institutional and corporate buy-to-let class, growing faster in percentage terms than any other. |
Private company | 61,210 (+10,725)A |
| Natural persons letting privately The only ownership class in Amsterdam that shrank between 2021 and 2025 — individual landlords leaving the market as corporate ones arrive. |
Private company | 59,030 (-1,480)A |
| Other legal persons Foundations, associations, pension bodies and other non-corporate legal owners. |
Institution | 26,360A |
| Ownership unknown CBS's own residual category — a reminder that even the Dutch register is not quite complete. |
Private company | 765A |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
The Dutch listed real-estate universe is small, and only one of its members is an Amsterdam office specialist. Beyond NSI the large Amsterdam landlords are German open-ended funds, Dutch pension managers and international private equity, none of which publishes an Amsterdam floor-area figure. What the free BAG register does give, uniquely, is the size of the buildings themselves — so the assets can be measured even where the owners cannot be named.
| Name | Type | Portfolio |
|---|---|---|
| NSI N.V. Euronext Amsterdam. Its own portfolio page states the count and a 'primary focus on Amsterdam', with sub-markets listed as city centre, South Axis, South East and Sloterdijk. In-house flex brand HNK operates nine locations. |
REIT | 41 buildings (33 offices, 5 life sciences)A |
| EDGE Technologies Developer rather than long-term owner. Its Valley page states the gross floor area, the MVRDV authorship, the Q1 2023 completion and the tenant roll; it does not state who owns the completed building. |
Developer | 75,000 m2 at Valley aloneA |
| EPRA constituents The European Public Real Estate Association is the only free cross-border starting point for 'who are the largest listed landlords' by country; it does not publish per-city floor area, so it cannot rank Amsterdam. |
REIT | the listed European landlord universeA |
Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- The registered owner of every marquee building listed here. Each is resolvable for EUR 3.70 against the cadastral parcel identifier recorded in its note — that identifier is the work this research did do — but no record was purchased, so no owner is asserted.
- Whether the Amsterdam landmarks in public use (Rijksmuseum, Royal Palace, Johan Cruijff ArenA, RAI) are registered to the Dutch State, the City of Amsterdam or an operating company. Their own websites 404 on the relevant pages and the cadastre is paid.
- NSI's individual Amsterdam buildings. The portfolio list is client-side rendered and the REST routes return only the page shell.
- Per-corporation dwelling counts for Ymere, Eigen Haard, Stadgenoot, Rochdale and De Key. Every 'about us' path tried on those sites and on the Amsterdam federation AFWC returned 404, so only the CBS class total (191,010) is published here.
- Whether a given Eigendomsinformatie record will actually carry a price. The Kadaster's page lists the cases where the sale price is not known: no postcode and house number in the deed, a former rental dwelling, a building plot or bare land, a parcel split after transfer, a transfer that is not a sale such as divorce or inheritance, and purchases below a stated threshold. Commercial towers held in corporate vehicles are the likeliest to fall into these gaps.
- Erfpacht. Municipal ground lease is pervasive in Amsterdam, so 'owner' must be read as freeholder or leaseholder; the Kadaster record does flag which, but only once bought.
Sources
- Eigendomsinformatie — Kadaster · paidA
- Koopsominformatie — Kadaster · paidA
- BAG WFS v2.0 (pand and verblijfsobject) and the national location service — PDOK / Kadaster · openA
- Valley, Amsterdam — EDGE Technologies · openA
- Portfolio — NSI N.V. · openA
- Voorraad woningen; eigendom, type eigenaar, status van bewoning, regio (table 86286NED) — Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek · openA
- EPRA — European Public Real Estate Association · openA
- Bestaande koopwoningen; gemiddelde verkoopprijzen, regio (table 83625NED) — Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek · openA
- Basisregistratie Kadaster (BRK), incl. BRK Levering — Kadaster · paidA