In the coming months, Apache will focus on land ownership and property in four Flemish provinces: West and East Flanders, Antwerp and Limburg. A gigantic amount of leaked land registry data allows us to visualise for the first time who the most important and largest owners of real estate and land are in large parts of Flanders.
We go in search of the major landowners in the countryside and the major homeowners and speculators in the cities. How much and which land does the old nobility own? How big are the land banks of property developers? Who are the new land speculators? In addition, we also chart public land ownership, from local to federal, and look at the holdings of church councils, religious institutions and other interest groups.
This grant was awarded within the framework of the Emergency Fund for Local Journalism.
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