Podcast Amsterdam Trading Culture- From the Golden Age to Now
⸱ 22-08-2025
From bricks to investment: property development in historical and legal perspective
How does a city develop in stone and regulation? In this ninth episode of Amsterdamse Handelsgeest (Amsterdam’s Trading Culture), Hidde Bruinsma talks to real estate partner-lawyer Jip Spierings and housing market researcher Matthijs Korevaar about the building boom of the eighteenth century, modern market mechanisms and the legal puzzles behind every construction project. From the Herengracht index to the Zuidas, from perpetual mortgages to ground lease and environmental plans: real estate is never just bricks and mortar, but always policy, investment and meaning. A conversation about bubbles, returns, objections and the question of who builds rental housing in the future.
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