Amsterdam faces Brexit housing crunch
If Brexit refugees moving to Amsterdam from London have their sights set on owning one of the city's famed canal-facing houses, they're in for a disappointment.
Not only are there very few of coveted Amsterdam's canal-facing houses on the market, the city only has about 1,000 houses and apartments of any kind for sale.
With the Dutch capital picked as the new base of the European Medicines Agency, or EMA, and as authorities in the city of about 850,000 work on luring fintech firms, banks and companies to move regional operations from London to Amsterdam, some locals are raising the alarm over a further tightening of an already difficult property market. Prices are hitting record highs.
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