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On 6 December 2023, Vesteda’s participants’ meeting approved the appointment of Ms Ditri Zandstra and Mr Paul Meulenberg as members of Vesteda’s Supervisory Committee. Ditri Zandstra replaces Seada van den Herik, whose second term expires on 9 Decemb...

Wednesday 22 November will see the festive start of construction on Vesteda’s new-build Zuiderhof complex in Rotterdam. This complex of mid-rental segment and free-sector apartments will be part of the Vreewijk garden village in the city’s Feijenoord...

Public sector pension fund ABP has increased its stake in Vesteda to a maximum of 33%. ABP’s new investment made it possible for Vesteda to purchase the new-build Zuiderhof project in Rotterdam. The homes in this complex will be rented on a priority ...

Gertjan van der Baan will step down as CEO of Vesteda in April 2024. Van der Baan has held this position since 1 January 2014. In April next year he will have been at the helm of the largest residential investor in the Netherlands for more than 10 ye...

Since this morning, Vesteda is a GRESB Global Sector Leader Residential. This is the first time Vesteda has achieved this global top position in the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark. On 1 October, Vesteda had already been awarded a five-st...

Vesteda once again achieved a five-star rating in this year’s Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB), but also climbed to the top position in the reference group in the Netherlands and Europe, up from 9th last year.The five-star rating i...

On the 29th of September Vesteda closed a financing agreement for a committed standby facility of €250 million. It was provided by two of Vesteda’s relationship banks. The standby facility provides extra liquidity headroom and gives more financial fl...

Commissioned by Vesteda, construction firm Van Wijnen is set to start in mid-September on a renovation project to make the Tuindorp complex in Utrecht more sustainable. This complex consists of 87 houses dating from the 1930s with energy labels rangi...

In the recently completed De Regent new-build complex in The Hague, a third of new tenants work in education, healthcare, the police force or fire services. In De Cavaliere in Helmond, a quarter of new tenants are key workers. This last apartment com...

Vesteda arranged a digital green bond on the public blockchain to gain experience with this technology. With this, Vesteda raised EUR 5 million from DekaBank, a German institutional investor. The proceeds of this transaction will be used to (re)finan...

Vesteda’s half-year report 2023 is available as of today: Vesteda half-year report 2023.For more information, please visit www.vesteda.com or www.vestedareport.com.

As per 1 August 2023, René Tim will be responsible within Vesteda for future acquisitions of new-build properties, dispositions and the redevelopment of existing residential properties.Gertjan van der Baan: "The market conditions for acquiring new-bu...

On Saturday evening, 3 June, a fire broke out in one of the added floors of De Enter apartment complex on Joan Muyskenweg in Amsterdam. All 95 households were able to leave the complex unharmed. Over the past few weeks, the fire service has been inve...

Vesteda’s letting agents are facing an increasing number of bribery attempts, more undue pressure and even threats via social media. The tight rental market in particular has  driven an upsurge in such excesses in behaviour among prospective tenants....

Stichting De Herberg (Breda) and Vesteda signed a first rental agreement as part of the ‘Warm Thuis’-initiative. This initiative aims to help homeless young people aged between 18 and 27 live independently as much as possible. On 3 July, the first pe...

On Saturday evening, June 3, a fire started in Building 4 of De Enter apartment building in Amsterdam. The fire department extinguished the fire, early Sunday morning. Fortunately, all tenants are unharmed. It is not yet clear what started the fire. ...

Pieter Knauff (CIO) is leaving Vesteda per 30th of June. On the 1st of September he will start as managing director Real Estate at Somerset Capital Partners.Since 2015, Pieter has played an important role in the growth and sustainability of Vesteda's...

On Friday, 5th of May, around the clock of 8.30 pm several tenants in the Willemstoren (Rotterdam) felt vibrations in the building. Vesteda took care of her tenants. Around 0.30 am all tenants could return home safely, after a thorough investigation ...

Last night, several tenants felt vibrations in the Willemstoren-building around 8:30 p.m. Following a number of reports, the building was temporarily partly evacuated. After a thorough investigation, the fire brigade, police and Bouw- en Woningtoezic...

In the first quarter of 2023, market conditions for housing investors in the Netherlands were valued at 5.5 according to Vesteda's Housing Market Indicator. This is a small plus compared to the previous quarter, but this indicates that the investment...

Vesteda has signed up to be a social partner to the National 4 and 5 May Fund for the next three years. The National Fund is an initiative of the National  4 and 5 May Committee and works with companies and other organisations to maintain and strengt...

On 12 April, we published our Annual Report 2022.In 2022, we continued to invest in sustainable and affordable homes, we kept costs under control, and we delivered solid operational results. The portfolio was almost fully leased, tenant satisfaction ...

Vesteda has certified almost its entire residential portfolio of 27,500 homes according to the new BREEAM-NL In-Use Homes guideline. This makes it the world’s largest ever residential certification achieved in one go. It also immediately creates the ...

On Wednesday 15 March, the Struikroven foundation signed a cooperation agreement with Heijmans, Vesteda, BAM Wonen, ERA Contour, Dura Vermeer and Urgenda. These strategic partners will help the foundation achieve its mission more quickly. Its mission...

On 7 December, Zonneplan installed 4,000th solar panel of the year on the roof of a rental home in Krommenie. This meant Vesteda had achieved its annual target of an average of 4,000 solar panels per year. In 2023, Vesteda has more than doubled its a...

Several internet platforms that list Vesteda’s rental properties appear to be misleading home seekers with inaccurate and incomplete information. The rental homes on offer are generated by search bots and are often no longer up-to-date or available. ...

Following an earlier agreement between Heijmans and Vesteda on the purchase and sale of 76 apartments in De Kuil in Rotterdam in early April 2022, the two companies recently signed an additional purchase agreement for another 44 rental apartments. Co...

Following the €150 million financing agreement in 2020, Vesteda and the European Investment Bank (EIB) have now signed a second €150 million agreement. The loan has a term of ten to 15 years. Vesteda plans to use the funds between 2023 and 2025 to im...

On Wednesday 7 December 2022, the official starting signal was given for the construction of De Weverij: an apartment building with 116 apartments, designed by Tangram Architekten from Amsterdam. A plate with the logos of the partners was symbolicall...

On Wednesday, 2 November 2022, Vesteda and its partners celebrated the start of construction on Singelblok, with 401 rental homes in the new urban residential neighbourhood Elzenhagen Zuid in Amsterdam North. Developers Blauwhoed and AM, builder Hedd...