The increasing retail vacancy rate offers opportunities to partly solve the growing housing shortage in the Netherlands.

Although the average occupancy in Dutch offices fell to between 10% and 20% of the number of employees, we expect the NFC Index this year will only be 2% lower compared to 2019.

Now remote working has become the new normal for many office workers around Europe, we predict that savvy hotel operators will harness the ‘hybrid hospitality’ concept, where hotels provide office space to enable co-working and interacting – to generate an additional source of income.

Flexible workspace is becoming more and more popular due to the shorter rental periods. The Netherlands now leads the way in Europe with the supply of this type of office.