Funda BV

You put your house up for sale, you bring in the estate agent and the photographer and then you just forget to hide the stolen Nazi looted art.

Yeah, and then you put it on Funda, basically, right? Yeah, that's a rookie, rookie mistake.

It happens to all of us, I have to admit.

The listing shows the home of the daughter and son-in-law of Friedrich Kottkien, who is a Nazi who fled to Argentina after the Second World War and who took dozens of looted artworks with him.

you have a budget a rough sense of the area or areas you are willing to live in and a list of requirements that reflect what genuinely matters to you the number of bedrooms whether pets are accepted proximity to specific transport links whether parking is included the general character of the neighborhood.

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