Safe as houses? Dutch history says otherwise

The house sugar merchant Cornelis Sasbout built in 1617 at number 150 on Amsterdam’s Herengracht canal tells a cautionary tale about investing in property — prices fluctuate wildly, but are ultimately flat.


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