With this Rent Check, you can calculate the maximum basic rent for a self-contained accommodation. A residence is self-contained if it has its own entrance door and its own kitchen, toilet and bathroom or other washing facilities.
What do you need to fill in the Rent Check?
- The accommodation’s WOZ value. You can request this at WOZwaardeloket.nl.
- The energy label for the accommodation. You can request this at EP-online.nl.
- The surface area of all the rooms in the accommodation, including the bathroom and kitchen. And the length of the kitchen counter.
- The surface area of outdoor spaces such as the balcony, garden or terrace, bicycle shed or other storage space, or garage.
Good to know
The Rent Check is based on the housing valuation system. Nevertheless, the result may differ slightly from reality, for example due to a measurement error or because a question was understood differently from how it was intended. Therefore, when assessing the rent, the Rent Tribunal always starts from a new points score, which is set by the Rent Tribunal.
Select the correct Rent Check
There are two different Rent Checks for self-contained accommodations.
The new Rent Check
The new Rent Check allows you to calculate the maximum rent at this point in time (as of 1 July 2024). Use the new Rent Check if, for example, you want to know the following:
- the current maximum rent for an existing rental contract (concluded before 1 July 2024);
- the maximum rent for a new rental contract (concluded on or after 1 July 2024);
- the correct starting rent for a new rental contract that entered into force less than 6 months ago, but not before 1 July 2024.
The landlord may attach the result of the Rent Check to a new rental contract. In fact, this will be mandatory from 1 January 2025.
> Go to New Rent Check for self-contained accommodations - rent from 1 July 2024 (in Dutch, the English version will be available in September)
The previous Rent Check
The previous Rent Check allows you to calculate what the maximum rent was in a period prior to 1 July 2024. Only use this Rent Check if you want to know:
- the correct starting rent for a rental contract that entered into force less than 6 months ago, but before 1 July 2024;
- the correct starting rent for a temporary contract that entered into force before 1 July 2024;
- the maximum rent for a proposed rent increase where the proposed effective date was before 1 July 2024.
> Go to Rent Check for self-contained accommodations – rent prior to 1 July 2024 (in English)
Results
What can you do with the result of the Rent Check? This will depend on how many points the accommodation is awarded, among other things. On the result page you will find an overview of the possible outcomes.