Protests in Berlin-Neukölln: Tenants require grants for the right of first refusal

Protests in Berlin-Neukölln: Tenants require grants for the right of first refusal

Title: Protests for the district right of first refusal in the Weichselstraße

Several dozen people demonstrated on Monday evening in front of Weichselstraße 52 in Berlin-Neukölln to exercise the district right of first refusal. The tenants asked the Senate to provide financial support for a possible pre -purchase. According to the organizers, almost hundred people took part, while the police spoke of 70 participants. The tenant's demand is based on the request to protect their rights as the resident of the house.

The responsible building councilor Jochen Biedermann (Greens) could not personally participate in the event, but had a greeting organized that the pressure had to be maintained. The aim is to find a third -party buyer who is willing to enter the purchase contract or to persuade the current buyer to sign a turnover agreement that protects the rights of tenants.

Only last week it became known that the district of Neukölln would like to apply the district right of first refusal for the first time in a year and a half. In November 2021, the Federal Administrative Court decided that the right of first refusal may only be applied to problem properties, which caused the now widespread instrument to take a standstill.

According to the information from the district office, Neukölln has checked about 100 houses since the judgment as to whether they are under the new conditions for the right of first refusal. The house in the Vistula Straße was identified by the district office as a problem real estate and fulfills the criteria for the right of first refusal. However, Biedermann emphasized that the district office is entering new territory with this case and is dependent on good communication with the residents concerned.

in Weichselstraße 52, the house community seems to have been dealt with on the contact request of the district office. Two months ago, they received a letter from the district office for the sale of the house to the investor Hansereal. In order to discuss the further course, the district office invited the tenants to a joint meeting, in which 20 of the 23 tenants took part. Since then, the residents have regularly met in weekly plena and have founded working groups that are active beyond the meeting. Some even took free to advance the search for a home buyer.

Both the residents and the district office are now looking for a state -owned housing company or a cooperative that could take over the house as a third -party buyer. The third -party buyer must be found by mid -September, which makes the time frame relatively tight.

The possibility that a third -party buyer will come is only if the Hansereal decides not to sign the turnover agreement. By signing the agreement, the company would undertake, among other things, to forego the division into condominiums and on all -overmate modernization measures, provided that they are not in the interest of milieu protection. In addition, the company would have to fix defects in the building within one year. In the event of a sale of the house, a potential