The Budapest municipality, which is on the verge of bankruptcy, wants to get rid of the two-place Hunyady castle it owns and get additional resources.
Above, an interesting ad appeared on Ingatlan.com. The capital management company is (also) selling the two-site Hunyady Castle owned by the Budapest municipality.
The Karácsonys will decide in a public, two-round tender auction, the deadline for submitting the tender is the end of the month. The former social home - which is currently unused - has a plot area of more than 116,000 square meters, the net floor area of the building, the Hunyady Castle is 3,668, and the gross floor area of the outbuildings - outbuildings, garages, pavilion, portaico, workshop - totals 2,064 square meters.
The minimum purchase price of the property is HUF 222 million plus VAT, i.e. HUF 281.94 million.
They remind that the property was also advertised in December 2021, when the asking price was very slightly higher, HUF 223 million plus VAT, but it is suspected that there were no buyers, which is why it has to be put up for sale again. It should be noted that inflation has been quite high in Hungary since then, and if not to that extent, prices have also risen on the real estate market, so selling real estate does not seem like a very good deal.
although, according to Gergely Karácsony, Budapest is in dire need of income, moreover, it is a building with a rather troubled fate.
Photo: ingatlan.com
The castle building is of Baroque origin, the western wing was built in 1760, the main part of the building and the eastern wing from 1912 to 1920. He experienced World War II. World War II, during which it operated as a hospital for the wounded, then it was a grain warehouse and a stable. In 1951, the castle and the property belonging to it were given to the Budapest Council with the right to manage it from the Hungarian State, when the first residents moved in. In 1993, it became the property of the Metropolitan Municipality.
Balázs Molnár, the mayor of Kéthely, told the sonline portal at the time,
In 1986, during the renovation works, approximately two-thirds of the castle burned down,
after that, nothing happened to the property for almost three decades. Its condition was constantly deteriorating, everything that could be moved was stolen, after which they began to guard the area. Conservation work was also completed on the castle, the watering was stopped in several places, and the windows were boarded up. A few years before that, a local company applied within the framework of the Kisfaludy program to renovate the building and turn it into a castle hotel. However, the deal did not work out, the company did not win the tender.
Mandiner/Hungarian Nation
Featured image: MTI/Péter Lakatos
