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How many houses are not sold publicly/funda?

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When we were looking to buy a house we did not use a purchase broker (aankoopmakelaar), but instead looked for houses ourselves online (mostly via funda.nl). One thing we often heard was that we’d miss houses were sold silently, from broker to broker. To verify this rumour, I bought kadaster data of recently sold houses (kadaster.nl) in our neighbourhood and checked whether I could find these online.

Findings:

  1. 18 out of 20 houses had advertisements online
    1. 10 on funda
    2. 8 only on local brokers
    3. 2 houses were not advertised publicly, where one was sold at a very low price (perhaps sold to relatives?)

Method:

  1. Buy a few zip code reports from the kadaster (kadaster.nl)
  2. For each house sold recently, search on google/funda

Conclusion: 90% of houses for sale are available online, of which at least 50% on Funda (some might have expired), and 40% on local websites. The hidden market could be limited to 10%.

Update 20191020: replies disabled because of spambots

Source data:

Zip code House nr Selling price (Kadaster) Selling date (Kadaster) Selling date (relative) Link Asking price Selling price (relative)
3544DM 7 €286,000 2016-09-19 -224d link (funda.nl) €275,000 104%
3544DM 9 €287,000 2016-08-02 -272d link (funda.nl) €275,000 104%
3544DM 31 €275,000 2015-12-29 -489d link (aprilmakelaars.nl) €275,000 100%
3544BZ 30 €224,000 2017-01-25 -96d link (deplaatselijkemakelaar.nl) not listed
3544BZ 12 €231,000 2015-12-15 -503d link (miljoenhuizen.nl) €245,000 94%
3544CW 248 €280,000 2017-01-12 -109d link (funda.nl) €265,000 106%
3544CW 197 €252,500 2016-11-03 -179d link (funda.nl) €257,000 98%
3544CW 200 €241,609 2016-11-01 -181d link (funda.nl) €245,000 99%
3544CW 250 €340,000 2016-04-01 -395d link (stichtsevechtmakelaars.nl) €360,000 94%
3544CW 215 €310,000 2016-01-05 -482d link (miljoenhuizen.nl) €327,500 95%
3544CW 219 €335,000 2015-12-31 -487d link (funda.nl) website gone
3544CW 251 €216,500 2015-12-29 -489d link (funda.nl) website gone
3544CW 234 €227,500 2015-11-03 -545d link (era.nl) website gone
3544PP 224 €382,500 2016-11-07 -175d link (funda.nl) €362,500 106%
3544PP 212 €245,000 2016-08-09 -265d ?? very low price sold in family?
3544PP 174 €348,000 2016-03-01 -426d link (blauweeik.nl) €349,000 100%
3544AR 187 €319,500 2016-09-02 -241d link (funda.nl) €319,500 100%
3544AR 189 €275,000 2016-07-15 -290d link (funda.nl) €275,000 100%
3544AR 211 €265,000 2015-09-30 -579d link (era.nl) website gone
3544AR 205 €222,500 2015-07-02 -669d not found not found