Archipelbuurt

The Archipelbuurt is The Hague at its most distinguished. Laid out in the 19th century with streets named after the Indonesian archipelago, it is a quarter of stately mansions, embassies and mature trees, where the upmarket Bankastraat supplies the shopping and the city centre, parks and coast are all a short walk or cycle away. Its tenants and owners skew diplomatic and international, lending it a quiet, cosmopolitan polish. For investors, the Archipelbuurt is a prime, stable holding underpinned by the international and diplomatic community. Rents run well above the city average and the period stock is genuinely scarce. But The Hague's self-occupancy rule restricts buy-to-let on mid-priced homes, and Box 3 tax erodes let-portfolio returns, so this is increasingly an owner-occupier prime market. Yields of around 4% are respectable for Western Europe, but the regulatory frame makes it best suited to buyers intending to live in their home.

Archipelbuurt in The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands