List of exact addresses
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The Senate is buying back these 14,000 apartments in Berlin
The state of Berlin is buying more than 14,000 apartments from the Vonovia and Deutsche Wohnen groups. For almost everyone, the deal is already through. In advance, the rbb has a list of the exact addresses of which apartments are involved.
After months of negotiations, Berlin is buying 14,750 apartments from Vonovia and Deutsche Wohnen. On Friday, those involved – including Berlin’s Senator for Finance Matthias Kollatz (SPD) – informed about details of the billion-dollar deal. The purchase price for the package, which also includes 450 commercial units, is around 2.46 billion euros, it said. The purchase takes place without the use of budget funds.
“According to the assessment of the municipal housing associations, the agreed purchase price corresponds to the earnings value,” says a press release from the Senate Department for Finance. The purchase price takes into account the condition of the apartments and the necessary investment.
The rbb has the address list of around 13,939 apartments, accurate to the house number. At first the “Berliner Morgenpost” had [morgenpost.de] reported. The apartments that the Senate is buying include the new building area south of the Kottbusser Tor in Kreuzberg, the Highdeck housing estate in Neukölln, the thermometer housing estate in Lichterfelde and parts of the Falkenhagener Feld in Spandau.
In the map below you can see all the residential units that were already purchased on September 16th. The addresses of 815 other apartments are still secret. Their purchase is to be notarized in September.
In the table below you can search for the addresses of the 13,939 apartments that have been purchased.
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Deal is funded with credit
The state-owned housing associations Berlinovo, Howoge and Dewego are taking over the apartments in their portfolio, financed with loans. Your supervisory bodies have already approved the deal, most recently notary appointments were pending. The store is considered the largest of its kind in the capital for a long time.
The Berlin Senate is pursuing the goal of expanding the municipal housing stock through new construction and acquisitions and thus slowing the rise in rents in the city. According to the Senate Department for Finance, the municipal housing stock should be increased to 400,000 by 2025. The aim is to keep around 20 percent of the Berlin population. Therefore, a total of over 41,000 apartments have been purchased since 2016.
After the most recent acquisition, the housing stock of the state-owned housing associations and berlinovo is now almost 370,000.
Expropriation initiative sees “backroom deal”
The initiators of the Berlin referendum on the expropriation of large real estate groups have criticized the purchase. “What the SPD is doing here shortly before the election is a bad number,” said the spokesman for the initiative “expropriate Deutsche Wohnen & Co.”, Moheb Shafaqyar, on Friday. “We generally advocate the transfer of apartments into the public sector, but not through backroom deals and at speculative prices.”
Nevertheless, the process shows that the acquisition of apartments on a large scale can be financed in a budget-neutral manner – that is, in the long term. “Even if the SPD likes to say the opposite in public, it is now implementing exactly this concept.” In contrast to the “SPD backroom deal”, socialization would be good business for Berlin and would be budget-neutral, according to Shafaqyar.
Kollatz defends the purchase
He contradicted allegations that the state-owned companies were taking a risk that was difficult to calculate with the purchase. The stocks have been carefully checked. That is why only 14,700 apartments would be bought instead of the around 20,000 originally offered.
Criticism also from within our own ranks
Before that, Kollatz had to listen to fierce criticism from his own coalition ranks because the Senate Finance Administration had only released detailed information about the deal to the MPs on Wednesday. Background was a decision of the administrative court, which obliged the Senate to publish details.
The parliamentary manager of the Left, Steffen Zillich, was outraged that the Senator for Finance only commented on the deal in the context of the debate at the request of the opposition, after the coalition had asked for information for a long time. This is “certainly not a confidence-building measure”.
Master criticizes business as a “fatal sign”
The Green’s rent policy spokeswoman, Katrin Schmidberger, said on Thursday that, due to the sparse flow of information so far, it was still unclear for the Greens whether it was a good deal or not.
The building policy spokesman for the CDU, Christian Gräff, stated that his parliamentary group basically supports the fact that the state-owned housing companies increase their holdings through acquisitions. However, the question arises, at what price.
The budget spokeswoman for the FDP, Sibylle Meister, criticized the deal as a “fatal sign”. Thousands of new apartments could have been built with the money. The AfD state chairman Kristin Brinker specifically named 8,000 to 10,000 apartments that, according to her calculations, could have been built for the purchase price of 2.4 billion euros.
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