Amsterdam neighbourhood lures hipsters with cheap waterfront housing
Amsterdam
WHEN Vincent Vollenbronck was living in Amsterdam's northern harbour as a teenager, it was a derelict expanse of potholed streets and abandoned docks where he would sometimes throw bricks through the windows of empty warehouses. Now, he is helping developers transform it into the city's fastest-growing area.
"Growing up there was fun, but most of the former shipyards were vacant or occupied by squatters," said the 33-year-old adviser for BNP Paribas Real Estate, which this year brokered the sale of 403 student homes being built on a former shipbuilding wharf to a Dutch asset manager. "Now, the area's booming."
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