How can we purchase a house in the Netherlands?

Hi and welcome to the Forum.

LOL - small world, I'm also married to a Dutch lady with a Roepnaam of Monique; although we made the move the other way.  If your wife has been back that long, then I assume that she has reopened her Dutch bank account; the best place to start is your bank.  If you have a joint account, then try and make the appointment together and see what they can offer you.

The housing market in the Netherlands is expensive.  Our daughter sold her house in Almelo and almost doubled what she had paid for it as a new build a few years earlier.  My wifes sister just sold her house in Enschede and made a lot of money, enough to buy a house across the border in Gronau.  So perhaps think about living across the border from the Netherlands, there are cross-border working agreements in place, so banks, doctors, schools etc are used to working with this.

I hope this helps.

Cynic

Expat Team