Bob van der Zande

Bob van der Zande is Director Residential Development for the City of Amsterdam. He is responsible for several residential programmes like midsegment rental housing, the self-built housing programme and student housing. He runs the Amsterdam Investors Office Residential to attract national and international investors. He is also strategic advisor for the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area organisation, including the 15 surrounding municipalities. He is member of the executive board of ULI The Netherlands, responsable also for the Dutch stand at MIPIM and Expo Real Munich. He graduated at the Delft University in 1978 as urban designer and contributed over the years to Zuidas and Eastern Docklands development.

The Amsterdam Metropolitan Area has a strong economic diversity, growing population, vigorous knowledge infrastructure, optimum accessibility and a transparent and well-regulated real estate market. It also offers a broad supply of real estate opportunities through its partners. New investment opportunities in every part of the region attract investors from all continents: from small-scale to prestigious new projects in a superb mix of a highly cultural historic city, waterfronts, beautiful countrysides and successful districts