The Senate administration for Finance, has before the regional court of Berlin a defeat. On Monday, the court lifted in December 2018, issued injunctions against the sale of nearly 670 homes in the Karl Marx Allee to the Deutsche Wohnen. Against the decision of appeal, the Senate administration announced a careful examination.

court provides clarity

While Deutsche Wohnen spokeswoman Manuela Damianakis showed pleased that the legal opinion of the listed company was confirmed, the Senate administration for Finance, to explain: “With the lifting of the injunctions by the court, there is clarity now. We assume that the sale of the biggest part of the apartments to Deutsche Wohnen will take place and the “extended acquisition” will come.”

the aim had been “to reach a good solution for all the tenants in the Karl-Marx-Allee” and to contribute to the acquisition of the entire property of a single owner structure. This project is now failed.

the basis of the pre Christmas rulings was is a of the financial administration together with the wohnungsbaugesellschaft Friedrichshain (WBF) initiated a Review of the sale of apartments by the Predac Immobilien Management AG to Deutsche. Both parties had claimed that the sale was in accordance with the requirement of the Contaminated sites law, according to which property and education in the apartments live tenants should be achieved. The provided contracts of 1993 and 1995, with which the solution of the blocks from the WBF was sealed.

“The Deutsche Wohnen has not left me in no doubt that she is going to establish tenant ownership,” said Finance Minister Matthias Kollatz (SPD) in December. In the reasoning of the district court for the injunctions, it was said: The defendant had a duty”, all the tenants of the object, the inhabited apartment give priority to the purchase offer.”

Gewobag pays 100 million Euro

In the Wake of the court decision for this case, the designed model of the “extended acquisition comes now”. Until the beginning of January, the tenants of the three affected residential blocks had the time to take your right of first refusal in the claim to – what did nearly 40 percent of the tenant. Was settled the purchase of a so-called intermediary, who had sold the flats on behalf of the tenant first, and in the same step to the land of their own Gewobag. The Deal will cost the Gewobag calculations of the daily mirror according to which 100 million euros.

representatives of the Opposition had criticised, to secure the privileges of a small and vociferous minority. They threw red-Red-Green, to create an additional apartment and so to alleviate the housing shortage in Berlin.

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apartments in the Karl-Marx-Allee repurchases could Gewobag 100 million Euro cost

Robert Kiesel

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