Berlin Senate Eyes Condos as Vonovia Licks Wounds on Failed Bid

  • City government still keen to buy portfolio if it was offered
  • Vonovia chief Buch says new offer might come -- or not

A Deutsche Wohnen SE logo outside the Siemensstadt Settlement modernist residential apartment block, a UNESCO World Heritage site, in Berlin, on May 25.

Photographer: Liesa Johannssen-Koppitz/Bloomberg
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A senior Berlin lawmaker expects the city to buy apartments from Vonovia SE and Deutsche Wohnen SE even though a tie-up of Germany’s largest residential landlords is poised to fail.