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No-Bid Auction Halts Foreclosure of Melanie Müller’s Leipzig Home

Creditors have six months to seek a private deal or request a new auction.

Overview

  • Leipzig’s district court, which held the foreclosure auction Thursday, received no bids and paused the case, allowing Müller to stay in the house for now.
  • The four creditors—a savings bank, the tax office, the City of Leipzig and a law firm—can reapply for an auction within six months or approve a private sale that needs all of them to agree.
  • A court appraisal put the property at about €800,000, the minimum bid was €400,000, and reporting cites a private offer of roughly €725,000 submitted in April.
  • Judges questioned a claimed long‑term ground‑floor tenant because the named company was deleted from the commercial register, a doubt that likely discouraged buyers.
  • Court filings list sizeable debts—about €150,000 in taxes, roughly €18,000 to the city and about €530,000 tied to the house—and any successful auction would cancel a registered right for her children to live there.