The Deutsche Wohnen had to do on the Friday before the regional court of Berlin a defeat. You may not initially be the owner of the apartment block F North of the Karl-Marx-Allee. The judge upheld an injunction on the 24. January. Accordingly, the proposed Deal will be prohibited, because it is the tenants ‘ pre-emption rights could be circumvented.

For the injunction in this circumstance was sufficient, it was said in the oral reasoning of the district court. The real estate business itself has to be decided in the proceedings on the merits. “The balance, that the prospects of success of the plaintiff are very large,” said the court.

In the core it was about the “disadvantages that the sale is a final Situation is created that the apartments are gone, and the tenants only a claim for damages remains, if you can prove then,” said the judge. Had complained to the housing company Berlin-Friedrichshain WBF as a former owner against the BGB-Gesellschaft Friedrichshain Block F-North, which wants to sell to Deutsche Wohnen.

the transaction will be Attacked because as early as 2017 from the seller’s completion of the “allocation” – the distribution of the total sales price to the different residential and commercial areas – in front of the planned sale of Deutsche Wohnen and the end of 2018 – back was made. Affected are the tenants of around 150 apartments (AZ.: 22 O 28/19).

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The Deutsche Wohnen did not want to take the process on request.