Possibility to buy apartment?

the real question is what the teilungserklärung and the community rules look like. if the new owner still holds 10 of 12 units they can basically push through whatever renovation they want at the eigentümerversammlung, and you'd have to pay your share. check if the offer includes a fixed price for your share of future repairs or if it's just the unit as-is. also ask your hausverwaltung directly about any planned modernisierungsumlage - if they're planning big stuff, that cost gets passed to tenants but as an owner you'd pay directly. a central berlin apartment for cheap usually means the hidden costs are real

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i'd be careful with the wohnungseigentumsgesetz stuff - as an owner you're liable for the gesamtschuld if other owners stop paying their hausgeld. with the big company holding most units they might not care but you'd still be on the hook. talk to a mieterschutzverein first before signing anything

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That price sounds suspiciously low for a central Berlin apartment, even in a building that needs work. The new owner probably wants to unload units quickly to avoid the cost and hassle of major renovations, which they're legally obligated to do if the building's in bad shape. You should check the Mietspiegel for your area and look up what comparable apartments sell for, because "super cheap" in a central location could mean the structural issues are worse than they look. Also, banks in Berlin are notoriously picky about financing apartments in buildings with pending renovation work, especially if the building's energy efficiency is poor, so you might want to talk to a mortgage broker at Interhyp or Dr. Klein before getting your hopes up.

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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