Apartment buyers in Diest will find 15 flats for sale, with asking prices ranging from €279,000 to €995,000. The average listed price is €478,895. Diest has 23,998 residents within 58.7 km², and the average age is 43. Home ownership stands at 70%, while average net income is €20,145 per person annually. Residents are 50.8% women; by nationality, 94.3% are Belgian, 1.1% Dutch, 0.5% Romanian, 0.5% Turkish, 0.5% Slovak, 0.3% Polish, 0.2% Bulgarian and 2.6% other nationalities.
The municipality’s dwellings average 5.9 rooms, and buildings have an average construction year of 1960. In the overall housing stock, 24.5% is apartment buildings and 75.5% houses. The building-type breakdown is 23.4% buildings and apartment blocks, 38.6% detached houses, farms and castles, 17.4% terraced houses, 16.2% semi-detached houses, 3.1% commercial houses and 1.4% other types. The 15 flats currently listed for sale sit within this wider mix of housing. Road connections include the N2, N10, R26, N29 and N127. By car, the A2 / E314 entrance is 4 minutes from the town centre, while access to the A13 / E313 takes 14 minutes.
Public transport in Diest includes De Lijn bus line 299, running Hasselt–Diest–Geel; line 370, serving Leuven–Tielt–Diest; and line 7, between Diest, Paal and Beringen. Lines 701 and 702 are also listed as Belbus routes. The nearest stations to the town centre are Diest, Zichem, Testelt, Schulen and Langdorp. For shopping, residents have 2 SPAR stores, 2 Delhaize stores, 1 Aldi, 1 Carrefour and 1 Colruyt. The municipality also has 7 nurseries, 12 nursery schools, 10 primary schools and 29 secondary schools. Named examples include Het Honingbeertje, Kinderopvang Tingelinge, Vrije Kleuterschool - De Notelaar, Gemeentelijke Basisschool De Buitenkans, Vrije Basisschool - Voorzienigheid, Vrij Technisch Instituut Mariëndaal and Go! De Prins Diest Campus Antwerpsestraat 1ste Graad.
Shared and low-emission travel options include 1 Blue-bike station, 3 Cambio car-sharing stations and 2 electric-vehicle charging stations. Brussels Airport is 34 minutes away by car or 74 minutes by public transport. The current apartment listings range from €279,000 to €995,000, with an average of €478,895. No flats for rent are listed in the supplied figures, while the sale market has 15 available listings. Diest’s housing stock is made up of 24.5% apartment buildings and 75.5% houses, set among a range of building forms from apartment blocks to detached homes and farms.