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This weekend, the Dutch newspaper Tubantia features the remarkable story of a Surinamese investor, who bought 58 properties in the city of Almelo. Also half a street below
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The man, Widjai Sardjoe of Intervast Suriname (photo), indicates in a candid interview with the newspaper what his motivation was to invest in Dutch real estate.
Two years ago it was messy in Suriname and he did not trust the political situation. For his investment company Intervast Suriname, he was looking for a safe place to invest money and transferred capital to the Netherlands.
“If we got into trouble here in Suriname, we would at least still have money in the Netherlands,” said Sardjoe. against the newspaper. And so he bought a large number of homes in Almelo, in the east of the Netherlands, less than half an hour from the border with Germany.
He indicates that he is not the only Surinamese who has bought properties in the Netherlands; he knows a number of other Surinamese investors who have followed this path.
The poll at the bottom of the article shows that not everyone in the Netherlands is happy with the investor’s actions. Only 14% of the poll participants think that this investor is not doing anything wrong, because it is a free market.
41% believe that this type of trade is ruining the Dutch housing market and should be banned and 45% believe that this is another reason to introduce compulsory residence as soon as possible.
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