Do Dutch people mind if someone previously died in their property?

[u/Love-Space-166]

In Japan, we have the concept of an “incident property”, basically a place where someone has died (suicide, murder, or even just passing away alone and not being found for a while). Landlords are legally required to disclose this to new tenants for a few years, and because people tend to avoid them, the rent usually gets discounted. There are even people who actively seek them out for cheap rent, though that’s rare.

I was wondering, does anything like this exist in the Netherlands? Like if someone dies in a flat, do landlords have to tell the next tenant? And does it actually affect rent?

It just makes me curious since so many Dutch properties are 100+ years old, so statistically plenty of people must have died inside. Due to the surge in rents, I initially thought this would be one way to rent cheap, but realised that I have never heard of this concept in the Netherlands and assume it doesn’t exist here?

[u/NeverSawOz]

With 2000 years of written history and many before that, there's always someone who died on your property.

[u/CarfDarko → u/NeverSawOz]

If you live in Flevoland changes are only +70 years... Unless you count shipwrecks.

[u/NeverSawOz → u/CarfDarko]

Well, not entirely. The coastline did recede from antiquity to the late medieval times. Also, the (former) islands remaining were bigger, so quite a few of drowned villages in the area.

[u/praetorian1111 → u/NeverSawOz]

Are you saying there are sunken villages at our shores?

[u/sndrtj → u/praetorian1111]

Yes, those exist.

[u/praetorian1111 → u/sndrtj]

I’m going to make in my mission to know all about them by the time I go to sleep tonight.

[u/sndrtj → u/praetorian1111]

Start with the Verdronken Land van Saeftinghe.

[u/ouvast → u/praetorian1111]

Ja, een heleboel zelfs. De waddenzee was toen land, en de 'zuiderzee' was oorspronkelijk een meer. Deze heette eerste Flevomeer, en daarna Aelmere. Vandaar de naam van de provincie en stad:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Lucia%27s_flood

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flevomeer

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almere_(meer))

[u/praetorian1111 → u/ouvast]

Ja zoals wel vaker weet ik ongeveer de helft..

Maar ‘gezonken’ steden fascineren mij enorm.
Net als die steden in het buitenland die dan in een stuwmeer liggen en droog komen te staan.

Echt interessant!

[u/NeverSawOz → u/praetorian1111]

Het kan nog dichterbij. Het Friese dorpje Elahuizen lag aan de Fluessen (meer) en is door storm verzonken in het meer. Wat nu Elahuizen heet is eigenlijk het buurdorp Nijega dat met het buitengebied van Elahuizen is gefuseerd. In de Fluessen ligt nog een zwartgele kardinaalboei die markeert waar de kerktoren staat zodat niemand er tegenop vaart.

[u/praetorian1111 → u/NeverSawOz]

Ja hier ga ik dus een keer heen. Thanks!

[u/applepies64 → u/NeverSawOz]

Nice thought before going to bed

[u/Zintao → u/applepies64]

That's why you're supposed to kill them in the morning.

[u/Marali87 → u/NeverSawOz]

Just to be that person (sorry): neither the Germanic tribes in the North nor the Celtic tribes in the south left written history. Unless you count the Romans writing ABOUT them of course :)

[u/NeverSawOz → u/Marali87]

Yes, I counted from Tacitus onwards.

[u/Marali87 → u/NeverSawOz]

Perfect, carry on then.

[u/Batavus_Droogstop → u/NeverSawOz]

The vast majority of the netherlands was built after the 50's. Entire cities such as Hoofddorp were built from scratch, but also small cities were expanded with lots of those typical rows of houses. Before that it was mostly forest, marshes or farmland (or sea, in the case of flevoland). So while the country is old, I really doubt much happened at all on the places where the houses are now.

[u/TheRealProcyon → u/Batavus_Droogstop]

That's the Randstad, we don't talk about the Randstad