Hamburg sells refugee houses on eBay

hamburg - The German city of Hamburg sells dozens of former refugee homes via auction site eBay. They have an area of ​​28 square meters and are according to the advertisement extremely suitable to be used as a sports room, guest room, workshop or hobby room.

Potential buyers can already offer from 1000 euros on one of the fifty or so houses, which cost around 23,000 euros each. 'There is interest from all over Germany,' says a spokesman for the service that deals with refugee housing.

Buyers have to take the houses with them. The transport is for own account and can cost thousands of euros. The municipality no longer needs the approximately three-year old accommodation itself, according to the news magazine Focus. The former residents have now been accommodated in other places or have their own houses.