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Budapest council to sell three castles and 69 other real estates?
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Based on pro-government media reports, Gergely Karácsony, the lord mayor of Budapest, would like to sell three castles owned by the local government of the Hungarian capital. The castles of Tokod, Kéthely, and Szőlőskert, qualified as protected monuments, can be sold this year. The leadership of the city hopes that they will get HUF 8.2 billion (EUR 22.27 million) for the 72 real estates they would like to sell.
According to Metropol.hu, the Budapest Fővárosi Vagyonkezelő Központ Zrt. (BFVK Zrt.), a real estate management company in Budapest, would like to sell 43 buildings, among which there are three small castles and two school buildings. The total number of real estates they would like to sell is 72, from which they hope to get HUF 8.2 bn (EUR 22.27 mn).
Metropol.hu, a pro-government media outlet, says that the previous, Fidesz-leadership of Budapest wanted to find long-term (50-100 years) tenants for the castles, allowing them to renew the buildings and run them as hotels or conference centres. The paper says that the left-liberal leadership before the Fidesz era wanted to sell them as well. However, they could not find a buyer for years.
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Members of the editorial staff of Ripost7, another pro-government media outlet, visited the three castles. All of them are in a deteriorating condition, and only one of them is guarded.
The Hunyadi Castle in Kéthely (near Marcali, in Somogy County) does not look as bad in the photo of Google Street View (below). However, according to Ripost, nobody protects it, so everybody can get into its park through the holey walls. That is why the building is almost empty.
