# Could a Left Party government in Berlin expropriate large real estate companies?

https://mins.news/en/item/70805

- DW, 2026-09-23 14:49 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.dw.com/en/could-a-left-party-government-in-berlin-expropriate-large-real-estate-companies/a-79399683?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf

> The socialist Left Party won Berlin’s September 20 election partly by pledging to implement the 2021 referendum on expropriating companies with more than 3,000 apartments. A commission found the measure legally possible in 2023, but the federal government opposes it and questions over compensation and financing remain.

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