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The latest Quote 500 reportedly placed an unknown crypto billionaire ahead of Heineken heiress Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken as the richest person in the Netherlands. De Carvalho-Heineken had held the position for 14 years. The list counted 56 billionaires in the Netherlands, four more than the previous year.
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Crypto entrepreneur Jean-Louis van der Velde, 62, entered the latest Quote 500 in first place, with his wealth estimated at €26 billion. He displaced Charlène de Carvalho-Heineken, who had led the ranking for nine years. The combined wealth of the 500 richest Dutch people rose by more than 10% to a record level of more than €300 billion.
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New CBS figures showed that the number of Dutch households with assets of at least €1 million increased by more than 81,000 on 1 January 2025 compared with a year earlier. The reports disagree on the total: several put it at 547,000 households, while later reports put it at more than 574,000. One report described the figures as preliminary. A single report said the increase was mainly linked to higher house prices. Another said Bloemendaal and Laren had the highest number of millionaire households, while Groningen, Flevoland, Limburg and Friesland had the fewest. In Friesland, Schiermonnikoog and Terschelling were reported to have the largest shares of millionaire households, at 13.4% and 12.4% respectively.