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Netherlands

Derived only from currently loaded listing rows. Includes 8 sourced manual research rows, 0 synthetic rows, and 5 certified comparable priced real-estate rows.

Market read

How to read Netherlands

Adaptive reuse

Dutch bunker prices can be driven by recreation, heritage, land, and very small floor areas rather than hardening quality.

Reading notes

  • Small bunkerwoning or recreation-bunker rows need absolute-price-first display and denominator warnings.
  • Protected monument or coastal heritage constraints should be separated from pure market value.
Listings8
Active4
Archived evidence4
Median underground USD/m²Transferable RE: $13,787Country median (mixed lanes) $13,787*
Comparable rows5
Excluded priced2
Research excluded16
Research pending46
Market valuelow relative value
Completeness91%
Buyer accessMedium
Certified rows only

Asset-type evidence

One documented asset type in the certified cohort
RowsAsset typeMedian USD/m²Depth
5civil defense shelter$13,787priced cohort
Diligence cues

Transfer / Legal Friction

Blockers, row notes, and dataset-scope cautions from the loaded evidence only.

Source blockers

  • Source blockerFunda verification pages
  • Source blockerexpired sold listings
  • Source blockerbroader house or apartment projects
  • Source blockermissing final sale price

Row-level jurisdiction notes

  • Zandvoort Kostverloren recreation bunker 1-ARecreation use only and no permanent habitation allowed; seasonal use shared toilets park co-ownership and dune constraints require buyer diligence
  • Vinkeveen Herenweg house with low-height schuilkelderHouse listing describes a low-height shelter-like cellar but buyer should verify whether it is a defensible shelter structure
  • Hattem Zwolle Noord river kazemat bunkerRight of opstal over 50 m2 cadastral parcel and national-monument river kazemat reuse require municipal provincial and heritage approvals; Funda currently lists price on request while NL Times reports the owner target price
  • Burgh-Haamstede Kloosterweg former bunker houseResale must first be offered to local housing association according to listing
  • Oostburg land parcel with underground atomic bunkerArchived 2021 sale evidence; current ownership not confirmed
  • Formerum Hemelrijk converted bunker holiday dwellingRecreation-dwelling rights and monument or dune-area constraints require buyer diligence
  • Amsterdam Postjeskade 36 m2 civil shelter listingResidential redevelopment possibility depended on zoning change according to article
  • Zandvoort Kostverloren recreation bunker A21Recreation use on own land; buyer should verify park co-ownership monument rules and municipal use constraints

Dataset scope flags

  • Broader-property contamination1 loaded row price the broader property rather than a separated shelter value.
  • Transfer scope ambiguity2 loaded rows carry lease, usage-right, broader-property, non-transferable, or unknown transferability classes.
  • Public-use or readiness context3 loaded rows sit in civil-defense, public-disposal, or liability-transfer lanes.
  • Planning or condition diligence2 row-level jurisdiction notes mention planning, protected status, obligations, contamination, or similar reuse friction.

Listing distribution

8 sourced rows, 0 synthetic rows. Median values use only certified comparable source-backed real-estate rows with direct or converted underground area, defensible asking, sale, or auction prices, and acceptable current source health.

4 active sourced rows, 7 priced sourced USD/m² rows,5 comparable priced real-estate rows, and 2 priced rows excluded from the comparable cohort.

  • Civil Defense Shelter
  • Underground Home
  • Mixed Underground Asset

Source coverage

  • Netherlands manual research queue manual only
  • Netherlands property portal manual review manual only
  • Netherlands Funda and local news archive manual review manual only
  • MVA Zandvoort recreation bunker A21 manual review manual only
  • Homestra Zandvoort recreation bunker 1-A manual review manual only
  • Funda Groede garden bunker broader-property blocker manual only
  • Funda Hattem river kazemat area repair manual only

Market value signal

low relative value, score 0. Transferable RE median is $13,787 across 5 priced rows; the country median across mixed lanes is $13,787* against a global comparable median of $1,382.

  • 5 Transferable RE rows.
  • Country Transferable RE median is 1184% of the global Transferable RE median.

Data gaps

7 rows with price, 1 without price. 8 rows with underground area, 0 without underground area.

Research log: 11 included, 16 excluded, and 46 pending decisions for this country.

  • 1 evidence rows are missing a stated price.
  • 2 priced sourced rows are excluded from real-estate value cohorts by certification status, source health, scope, area basis, or price basis.
  • 2 evidence rows have blocked, paywalled, unreachable, or unknown source health.

Evidence mix

Coverage
Active Listing 4 / Archived Listing 2 / Archived Sale 2
Sources
Marketplace 4 / News Article 3 / Broker 1
Health
Live 6 / Unreachable 2
What do these lane labels mean?

The lane is the kind of buying, not whether you can buy. Most rows below are real listings or evidence; the badge tells you what type of transaction the row represents.

  • Embedded shelterShelter built into a broader property. You buy the property, the shelter comes with it.
  • Lifestyle undergroundUnderground or earth-sheltered home. Buyable like any house; hardening is usually below bunker grade.
  • Public disposalGovernment auction. Buyer may inherit decommissioning, environmental, or readiness obligations.
  • Adaptive reuseBunker repurposed (museum, hotel, tunnel reuse). Often heritage-protected with reuse constraints.

Netherlands listings

Synthetic rows are for product development only
AssetRegionMarket TypeUSD/m²QualityValueStatusEvidence
Zandvoort Kostverloren recreation bunker 1-ANorth HollandAdaptive reuse440 (recalibrating)
manual researchactiveactive listinglivecertifiedhighscored

Homestra property page states Jhr PN Quarles van Uffordlaan 1-A Zandvoort historic WWII bunker tiny house price EUR 179500 size 14 m2 lot 611 m2 for_sale status good condition and converted bunker use

Live source / Supported evidence / Whole Property / Asking Price

Certified: Certified: source is live or archived and the row has price, underground area, asset scope, area basis, price basis, and evidence notes.

Recreation use only and no permanent habitation allowed; seasonal use shared toilets park co-ownership and dune constraints require buyer diligence

Homestra
Vinkeveen Herenweg house with low-height schuilkelderUtrechtEmbedded shelterPrice covers broader property — not a separable underground transfer13not comparable
manual researchactiveactive listingliverejectedhighnot comparable

Funda page states Herenweg 252 Vinkeveen 700000 kosten koper 99 m2 wonen 590 m2 perceel 68 m2 overige inpandige ruimte and a soort schuilkelder zonder stahoogte ca 32 m2

Live source / Supported evidence / Underground Component / Broader Property Price

Rejected: Rejected: row is outside the comparable real-estate cohort by scope, area basis, price basis, or priced USD/m2 support.

House listing describes a low-height shelter-like cellar but buyer should verify whether it is a defensible shelter structure

Funda
Hattem Zwolle Noord river kazemat bunkerGelderlandPublic disposal270 (recalibrating)
manual researchactiveactive listinglivecertifiedhighscored

NL Times article states a genuine 1936 bunker near Hattem listed on Funda with owner target EUR 80000; the current Funda detail page for the same Bunker zoekt baasje river kazemat states 50 m2 opstal parcel and Circa 40 m2 plus Recht van opstal and Bouwjaar 1936

Live source / Supported evidence / Whole Property / Asking Price

Certified: Certified: source is live or archived and the row has price, underground area, asset scope, area basis, price basis, and evidence notes.

Right of opstal over 50 m2 cadastral parcel and national-monument river kazemat reuse require municipal provincial and heritage approvals; Funda currently lists price on request while NL Times reports the owner target price

NL Times / Funda
Burgh-Haamstede Kloosterweg former bunker houseZeelandLifestyle undergroundn/a40insufficient data
manual researcharchivedarchived saleunreachablerejectedhighinsufficient datamissing price

Broker page states sold Kloosterweg 95 former bunker house with 145 m2 living area on 870 m2 plot and 50 to 60 cm walls from wartime bunker conversion

Unreachable source / Weak evidence / Whole Property / Unknown

Rejected: Rejected: row is outside the comparable real-estate cohort by scope, area basis, price basis, or priced USD/m2 support. Missing required evidence fields: listed_price, price_basis.

Resale must first be offered to local housing association according to listing

Delta Makelaardij
Oostburg land parcel with underground atomic bunkerZeelandAdaptive reuse$9655254 (medium listing value)
manual researcharchivedarchived listinglivecertifiedhighscored

Article states Oostburg land parcel with underground atomic bunker was for sale at EUR 359000 with 3792 m2 plot and 400 m2 bunker that could house fifty people for two weeks

Live source / Partial evidence / Underground Component / Asking Price

Certified: Certified: source is live or archived and the row has price, underground area, asset scope, area basis, price basis, and evidence notes.

Archived 2021 sale evidence; current ownership not confirmed

RTL Nieuws
Formerum Hemelrijk converted bunker holiday dwellingFrieslandLifestyle underground37not comparable
manual researcharchivedarchived saleunreachablerejectedhighnot comparable

Funda sold page states unique former WW2 bunkerwoning Hemelrijk in Terschelling dunes was offered at EUR 449000 with 27 m2 usable area on 900 m2 land and sold in September 2024

Unreachable source / Weak evidence / Whole Property / Sale Price

Rejected: Rejected: structurally comparable row has unreachable source health.

Recreation-dwelling rights and monument or dune-area constraints require buyer diligence

Funda
Amsterdam Postjeskade 36 m2 civil shelter listingNorth HollandAdaptive reuse270 (recalibrating)
manual researcharchivedarchived listinglivecertifiedhighscored

Article states a 36 m2 Amsterdam shelter or bunker at Postjeskade was for sale on Funda for EUR 1.1m with a 76 m2 parcel above and possible zoning change to housing

Live source / Weak evidence / Whole Property / Asking Price

Certified: Certified: source is live or archived and the row has price, underground area, asset scope, area basis, price basis, and evidence notes.

Residential redevelopment possibility depended on zoning change according to article

Indebuurt Amsterdam
Zandvoort Kostverloren recreation bunker A21North HollandPublic disposal540 (recalibrating)
manual researchactiveactive listinglivecertifiedhighscored

MVA page states EUR 225000 asking price for Jhr PN Quarles van Uffordlaan 1-A21 Zandvoort unique recreation bunker with 14 m2 interior 423 m2 own land warm water solar electricity wood stove and WWII Atlantikwall origin

Live source / Supported evidence / Whole Property / Asking Price

Certified: Certified: source is live or archived and the row has price, underground area, asset scope, area basis, price basis, and evidence notes.

Recreation use on own land; buyer should verify park co-ownership monument rules and municipal use constraints

MVA