How much do buyers overbid in Amsterdam?

In the region Amsterdam sits in, buyers paid an average of 5.9% above asking in Q2 2026. Of all sales, 75% went above asking. That figure is regional rather than city-level: the underlying NVM data is published per COROP area, and forty of those areas cover every Dutch municipality between them. Treat it as direction, not as a bid.

Homes in that region sat on the market for a median of 32 days. That number often tells you more about your negotiating room than the overbid percentage does: the shorter the listing period, the more likely you face a sealed bid with a deadline rather than a negotiation where you get a second attempt.

For Amsterdam itself, the average sale price is €630,621 over 2025. That is +2.1% against the year before. This one IS measured per municipality, and it is the figure to hold an asking price against before you start thinking about overbidding.

Within Amsterdam, average WOZ values run from €211,000 in Amstel III/Bullewijk to €1,295,000 in Apollobuurt, across 111 neighbourhoods. A single city-wide overbid percentage therefore tells you little: the same 5% is a few thousand euros in one neighbourhood and a multiple of that in another.

The usable method is not to copy a percentage but to set three things beside it: what comparable homes in that specific neighbourhood recently sold for, how the asking price sits against the property's WOZ value, and how much cash you hold on top of your buyer's costs. That last one is the hard limit — you may borrow at most 100% of appraised value, so anything you bid above the valuation comes out of savings.