Ryan Babel speaks a different language from most footballers. While the Dutch international can talk in cliches - "it's a game of two halves" and "we're taking it one game at a time" - he is equally at ease discussing investment strategies and the danger of over-leveraging. That is because over the past few years, the former Liverpool forward, currently on loan at Ajax from Calatasaray, has amassed a global property portfolio worth tens of millions of dollars. Now, as his football career starts to draw to a close, the pink-haired Dutchman tells Property Week what attracted him to the property game and why he is so interested in the residential sector.
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