SUMMARY
You should not avoid buying in a Munich Erhaltungssatzung area just because the property is protected. The real danger is buying a property whose value depends on renovation, conversion, redevelopment or another change that Munich may refuse.
The label covers too much of Munich to work as a simple red flag. The city has 36 Erhaltungssatzungen covering roughly 204,400 homes and 340,500 residents, including parts of neighborhoods such as Haidhausen, Neuhausen and Au that many buyers actively want.
An existing Eigentumswohnung bought largely as-is is a very different asset from an undivided Mietshaus bought for breakup. The first may face some renovation friction; the second can lose the core profit engine of the deal if condo conversion is not approved.
Renovation is not banned, but Munich draws a real line between maintenance or ordinary modernization and upgrades that push a home materially beyond normal local standards. That makes luxury-refurbishment spreads much less reliable than they look on a simple before-and-after €/m² comparison.
Demolition and major restructuring deserve even more caution. Inside a protected area, an old residential building cannot be valued like a normal redevelopment site unless the relevant approvals are already clear.
The economics make those restrictions more important. Munich Mietwohnhäuser recently traded at about 30 times annual gross income on average, equivalent to only around a 3.3% gross income yield before operating costs, financing and taxes.
For many buy-to-let apartments, the tenant can still matter more than the Erhaltungssatzung. A long-standing low-rent lease can depress income for years, and the preservation rules can make aggressive modernization harder at the same time.
The ordinance does not create its own special rent cap, and it does not make Airbnb restrictions disappear. Rent regulation comes from Germany's wider tenancy rules, while Munich's separate Zweckentfremdung regime already makes full-time short-term letting difficult across the city.
There is no credible evidence for a standard 10% or 15% Erhaltungssatzung discount on ordinary Munich condos. The effect is property-specific: a protected Mietshaus with blocked breakup potential can be worth materially less to an investor, while an existing condo that already works for its buyer may barely be impaired.
The cleanest buying rule is simple: value the property mainly on what it legally is today. If the deal only works after moving walls, creating condos, clearing tenants, demolishing housing, changing use or carrying out a luxury retrofit, get the city position before signing rather than pricing the permission in as if it were automatic.
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Is buying in a Munich Erhaltungssatzung area actually risky?
Buying in a Munich Erhaltungssatzung area is usually fine for a normal homebuyer, but it can be a terrible fit for an investor whose profit depends on renovating, converting or redeveloping the property.
The scale of these protected areas is important. Munich currently has 36 Erhaltungssatzungen covering about 204,400 homes and roughly 340,500 residents. That is around a quarter of the city's housing stock and more than one-fifth of its population. Avoiding every protected area would mean writing off a large chunk of established Munich, including parts of Haidhausen, Neuhausen, Au and other neighborhoods that buyers actively want.
These areas exist because Munich believes certain neighborhoods face enough upgrading and displacement pressure to justify tighter control under Section 172 of Germany's Building Code. The number of protected areas has more than doubled from 17 around 2005 to 36 today. Munich now reviews the areas every five years, but the ordinances themselves are indefinite rather than short-term measures.
For buyers, the practical risk varies enormously. An existing Eigentumswohnung that already has the right layout and condition may be barely affected. An old Mietshaus bought because we expect to split it into condos and sell the units separately can be a completely different story.
| Buyer strategy | Erhaltungssatzung risk | What creates the risk | Our view |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy an existing condo to live in | Low to moderate | Some renovations need approval | Usually fine |
| Buy an existing condo to rent long term | Moderate | Less freedom to upgrade the unit | Price matters a lot |
| Buy a fixer-upper for major renovation | High | Premium upgrades can be refused | Be careful |
| Buy a Mietshaus and split it into condos | Very high | Conversion is tightly controlled | Usually avoid |
| Buy for demolition and redevelopment | Very high | Existing housing is heavily protected | Avoid unless approval is clear |
Can you still renovate a Munich apartment in an Erhaltungssatzung area?
Yes, you can renovate a Munich apartment in an Erhaltungssatzung area, but major upgrades can require permission and some high-end improvements may be rejected altogether.
Basic repairs remain possible. Replacing worn-out components, fixing defects or keeping a building in usable condition is part of normal ownership. Problems start when the work changes the apartment substantially or pushes it beyond what Munich considers a typical local housing standard.
The city currently requires approval for measures such as significant floor-plan changes, bathroom modernization, lifts and other substantial alterations. These rules can apply to rented, vacant and owner-occupied apartments, so buying the flat for yourself does not give you unlimited freedom.
Munich's guidance gives us a useful sense of where the line sits. Double-glazed windows are considered normal. Underfloor heating is outside the usual standard. Ordinary central heating is accepted, while features such as open fireplaces fall on the luxury side. Minimum energy work required under Germany's Gebäudeenergiegesetz can generally go ahead.
Going substantially beyond those minimum energy standards becomes more complicated. Munich can require a public-law agreement limiting how much of the extra cost a landlord can pass to tenants. The city uses the example of fitting triple glazing when double glazing would already satisfy the legal requirement: the better windows may be allowed, but the incremental cost can be excluded from a later rent surcharge.
For someone buying a long-term home, losing underfloor heating or a particularly ambitious refurbishment may be annoying rather than financially disastrous. If our purchase price assumes that a dated €700,000 apartment can be turned into a €950,000 luxury product, we need to know before signing whether Munich will allow the work that creates that difference.
| Planned work | Likely treatment | Risk for the buyer |
|---|---|---|
| Normal repairs and maintenance | Generally straightforward | Low |
| Bathroom modernization | Approval may be required | Moderate |
| Significant layout changes | Approval required | Moderate to high |
| Lift installation | Approval required | Moderate |
| Legally required energy upgrade | Generally approvable | Moderate |
| Energy upgrade far above minimum | Can face conditions | Higher |
| Luxury-level modernization | Often difficult to approve | High |
| Major removal of existing housing | Heavily restricted | Very high |
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Can Munich really stop a luxury renovation?
Yes. Munich can refuse a luxury renovation in an Erhaltungssatzung area when the work would push the home well beyond the standard normally found in the city.
This is one of the rules we would take seriously rather than treating as bureaucratic paperwork. Munich explicitly says that upgrades above the generally usual residential standard are, in principle, unsuitable for approval. Comprehensive modernization of the kind that can support much higher rents also comes under close scrutiny.
The logic shows up clearly in the energy rules. Munich is generally willing to approve work that a building legally needs. Once an owner chooses a noticeably more expensive specification, the city starts asking whether that extra improvement could help price existing residents out.
That changes the economics of a refurbishment strategy pretty quickly. Imagine we buy a tired apartment because comparable renovated units sell for €2,000 or €3,000 more per square metre. That price gap only belongs in our model if the planned renovation is legally achievable.
Is an existing Munich condo much safer than buying a whole Mietshaus?
Yes. Buying an already-established condominium in a Munich Erhaltungssatzung area is much safer than buying an undivided Mietshaus whose value depends on creating individual condo units.
This is probably the most important distinction in the whole article.
If the apartment already exists legally as Wohnungseigentum, the conversion has already happened. The Erhaltungssatzung can still affect future renovations and changes of use, but the buyer is not relying on Munich approving the creation of the individual unit.
Buying an entire rental building gives us a much wider set of restrictions. Conversion into separate condominium ownership is subject to approval, demolition is difficult, major alterations can be blocked and long-standing tenants may also make aggressive repositioning economically unrealistic.
There is another practical difference. Germany's municipal Vorkaufsrecht under Section 24 of the Building Code does not apply to a normal purchase of condominium rights under the Wohnungseigentumsgesetz. A buyer acquiring an individual flat therefore avoids one of the concerns that can arise when an entire Grundstück changes hands.
A €900,000 existing condo in Neuhausen and a €12 million Mietshaus bought for conversion can sit on the same street while carrying completely different regulatory risk.
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Can you still convert a Munich Mietshaus into condominiums?
Converting a Mietshaus into individual condos inside a Munich Erhaltungssatzung area is now difficult enough that we would never assume permission in the investment case.
Munich refers to the regime as an Umwandlungsverbot, although there are statutory exceptions. Buildings with fewer than 11 apartments can qualify in situations such as an inheritance, a transfer to relatives for their own occupation, existing third-party ownership claims or cases where keeping the property undivided would be economically unreasonable.
A further route exists when the owner commits for seven years to sell the newly created units only to the people already renting them.
Buildings with 11 apartments or more face tougher conditions. One possible route requires at least two-thirds of the tenants to buy their apartments for their own use. Ordinary plans to split a block and sell the units to outside investors do not fit comfortably into these exceptions.
That has a direct effect on valuation. In many cities, an apartment building can be worth more once 20 rental units become 20 individually saleable condominiums. The aggregate retail value of the units may sit well above the value of the original en-bloc building. Munich's protected areas deliberately make that conversion profit harder to capture.
| Property situation | Conversion prospects today | Investment implication |
|---|---|---|
| Existing individual condo | Conversion already completed | Much lower risk |
| Small Mietshaus with ordinary investor plan | Poor | Do not price in conversion |
| Property divided through inheritance | Possible legal route | Case-specific |
| Units transferred to close relatives for own use | Possible legal route | Narrow exception |
| Small building with seven-year tenant-sale commitment | Potentially possible | Limited flexibility |
| 11+ units with normal breakup-and-resell strategy | Poor | Very unattractive |
| 11+ units where two-thirds of tenants buy | Possible route | Unusual situation |
Does Erhaltungssatzung stop a Munich landlord charging market rent?
No. A Munich Erhaltungssatzung does not create its own special rent cap, although landlords still face Germany's wider rent rules and any obligations attached to the specific property.
This distinction gets blurred surprisingly often. Erhaltungssatzung mainly controls physical changes, conversion, demolition and changes of use. Rent regulation comes through other rules, including the Mietpreisbremse, restrictions on rent increases during existing tenancies and the normal rules governing modernization surcharges.
The current Munich Mietspiegel puts the average net cold rent in the regulated stock it measures at €15.38 per square metre. That figure should not be confused with the much higher asking rents we often see on new listings. A buyer taking over a tenant who has lived in the flat for years may therefore inherit income well below today's advertised rent.
Some properties carry another layer of restrictions because a previous owner signed an Abwendungserklärung or another public-law agreement. Those commitments can survive the sale and matter more financially than the basic Erhaltungssatzung label.
When we buy a tenanted apartment, the useful number is the rent that this specific contract can legally produce.
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Are the returns too weak for an Erhaltungssatzung investment in Munich?
For a leveraged investor, Munich's thin yields make Erhaltungssatzung restrictions more painful because there is already very little return cushion.
The latest Munich market data shows that residential property remains expensive even after the correction from the 2022 peak. In the first half of 2026, the Gutachterausschuss found that resale condo prices were broadly stable, ranging from about 1% below to 5% above the previous year's level depending on construction period, with the average change around +1%.
New apartments averaged roughly €9,800 per square metre in ordinary locations and €10,550 in good locations. For entire Mietwohnhäuser, the Gutachterausschuss calculated an average Ertragsfaktor of about 30 times annual gross income from 35 analysed transactions.
Thirty times annual rent corresponds to a gross income yield of only about 3.3% before expenses. Once maintenance, administration, vacancies, non-recoverable costs, financing and taxes enter the calculation, the cash return can become thin quickly.
This is where an Erhaltungssatzung can really hurt. Investors paying Munich prices often hope that rent growth, refurbishment, subdivision or eventual resale appreciation will make the total return work. The ordinance restricts several of those routes at the same time.
The fresh transaction data does not suggest buyers are abandoning Munich. Around 4,950 condominium and part-ownership units changed hands in the first half of 2026, 3% more than a year earlier, while transaction value increased 4%.
| Current Munich market indicator | Latest level | What it tells us |
|---|---|---|
| Condo and part-ownership transactions, H1 | ~4,950 | Market activity is still healthy |
| Transaction count vs previous year | +3% | Demand has not disappeared |
| Resale condo price change | Roughly -1% to +5% by age group | Prices are broadly stable |
| Average resale change | ~+1% | No broad new price collapse |
| New condo, average location | ~€9,800/m² | Entry prices remain high |
| New condo, good location | ~€10,550/m² | Prime-ish housing still commands a premium |
| Mietshaus Ertragsfaktor | ~30× annual gross income | About 3.3% gross income yield |
Is the tenant a bigger risk than the Erhaltungssatzung?
For many Munich buy-to-let apartments, yes: an old low-rent tenancy can affect the investment more than the Erhaltungssatzung itself.
Consider two identical apartments in the same protected street. One is vacant and already legally divided into condominium ownership. The other has a tenant who has lived there for 15 years and pays far below today's asking rent.
The second unit can look cheap on a price-per-square-metre basis, but the income gap may take years to close. German tenancy rules control how quickly existing rents can rise, while Munich's preservation rules can also make an aggressive modernization strategy harder.
A buyer can accept the lower rent if the purchase price properly reflects it. Trouble starts when the spreadsheet assumes the apartment will quickly earn whatever new tenants currently pay on ImmobilienScout24.
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Can Munich use its Vorkaufsrecht and take the property instead?
For someone buying a normal individual condominium, Munich's Vorkaufsrecht is generally not the risk people imagine.
The Building Code excludes purchases of condominium rights under the Wohnungseigentumsgesetz from this municipal right of first refusal. Someone buying an already-created Eigentumswohnung therefore starts from a much simpler position than an investor buying an entire property.
Whole-building transactions deserve more attention, although Munich's power has been much weaker since the Federal Administrative Court's 2021 ruling. The court found that a city could not exercise this type of pre-emption simply because it feared a buyer might later act against the area's social-preservation goals when the property's current use was lawful.
Munich itself says the ruling left its Vorkaufsrecht usable only in very limited cases. Munich, Berlin and Hamburg have spent years pushing for federal changes that would strengthen the tool again, but the law buyers face today remains more limited than the political proposals.
Can you demolish and rebuild in a Munich Erhaltungssatzung area?
A redevelopment strategy based on demolishing existing housing in a Munich Erhaltungssatzung area is extremely risky and should be treated as unavailable unless the city has already confirmed otherwise.
Munich's current position is very restrictive: demolition or substantial removal of residential space in these protected areas is generally not eligible for approval. The main exception is a case where keeping the housing has become economically unreasonable and the owner can prove that during the application process.
That makes old buildings behave differently from conventional development sites. Outside this regime, a tired building may still be valuable because we can replace it with a larger or more valuable project. Inside a protected area, the existing residential structure can effectively anchor what the site is worth.
A recent change in Munich's citywide Zweckentfremdung rules also needs to be separated from Erhaltungssatzung law. Since the latest city ordinance took effect, demolition can avoid a Zweckentfremdung permit in certain circumstances. That does not give an owner a free pass inside an Erhaltungssatzung: the separate preservation approval can still block the demolition.
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Can you Airbnb a property in a Munich Erhaltungssatzung area?
A Munich Erhaltungssatzung makes Airbnb no easier, and the city's separate Zweckentfremdung rules already make a full-time holiday-rental strategy difficult across Munich.
Under the city's current rules, using an ordinary residential property for tourist accommodation for more than eight weeks in a calendar year generally counts as Zweckentfremdung and requires permission. A home that someone genuinely lives in can still be rented during their absence for up to 56 calendar days in total.
The latest city ordinance keeps that eight-week threshold and also continues to treat long vacancy and substantial commercial use as potential misuse of residential space. Munich is now preparing a registration system under which holiday rentals advertised online will eventually need a property-specific registration number, although the city says the registration requirement is not yet in force.
Erhaltungssatzung creates an additional issue if the short-term-rental plan involves a change of use or physical alterations requiring preservation approval.
Moving 200 metres outside an Erhaltungssatzung boundary therefore does not turn a normal Munich apartment into a straightforward Airbnb investment.
Do apartments in Munich Erhaltungssatzung areas sell for less, or can the rules actually support the neighborhood?
There is no good evidence of a standard Erhaltungssatzung discount on ordinary Munich condos, and the same rules can help preserve some of the neighborhood qualities buyers are paying for.
Public transaction data does not give us a clean enough protected-versus-unprotected comparison controlling for the street, building age, condition, tenancy and exact apartment characteristics. Anyone claiming that an Erhaltungssatzung automatically knocks 10% or 15% off a Munich flat is giving us precision the available data does not support.
The geography also works against a blanket discount. Munich uses Erhaltungssatzungen in desirable inner-city neighborhoods including Haidhausen, Neuhausen and the Au. Buyers still pay heavily for good transport, attractive streets, established retail, architecture and proximity to central Munich.
The latest city transaction data also shows a market that has stabilized rather than one where protected apartments have suddenly become toxic. Condominium transaction numbers were up 3% in the first half of 2026, while average resale pricing across age groups was around 1% higher than a year earlier.
At the same time, restrictions on demolition, luxury conversion and aggressive restructuring can preserve older buildings and a more mixed housing stock. That can be attractive to people who already like the neighborhood as it looks today.
The valuation effect is therefore asset-specific. A Mietshaus that cannot be profitably converted deserves a different price from a similar unprotected property with clear breakup potential. An existing condo that already suits the buyer may lose very little value from the ordinance.
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What should you check before buying in a Munich Erhaltungssatzung area?
Before buying in a Munich Erhaltungssatzung area, we would check the exact legal status of the apartment and every assumption in the renovation or rental plan rather than stopping at the protected-area label.
The first check is the precise parcel. Munich has an interactive map where an address can be tested against the current boundaries, and buyers should use the actual property rather than relying on an estate agent saying it is "near" an Erhaltungssatzung.
For an apartment, the Grundbuch and Teilungserklärung should confirm that the unit already exists legally as separate Wohnungseigentum. Previous alteration approvals also matter if walls have been moved, units combined or other substantial work carried out. Munich can fine breaches of Erhaltungssatzung rules by up to €30,000 per apartment.
A tenanted purchase needs the full rental history, current rent, permitted increase path and any modernization already charged to the tenant. We would also search for an old Abwendungserklärung or other public-law agreement that may bind the property.
The building itself still needs normal WEG due diligence. Meeting minutes, maintenance reserves, planned Sonderumlagen, roof condition, heating system, façade and energy work can easily move the economics by tens of thousands of euros.
Most importantly, anything central to the purchase thesis should be checked before signing. If we need to move walls, combine units, install a lift, carry out an unusually high-end retrofit, change the use or convert ownership, the city position should be investigated while we can still walk away.
| What to check | What we are trying to find out |
|---|---|
| Munich's exact Erhaltungssatzung map | Whether the parcel is actually covered |
| Grundbuch | Who owns what legally |
| Teilungserklärung | Whether the apartment already exists as condominium ownership |
| Existing tenancy | What the property can actually earn |
| Previous city approvals | Whether earlier alterations were legal |
| Abwendungserklärung or other agreements | Whether extra restrictions attach to the property |
| WEG minutes and reserve | Upcoming costs and building problems |
| Planned renovation | Whether our value-add plan can be approved |
| Building energy condition | How much unavoidable capex may be coming |
| Intended rental use | Whether separate Zweckentfremdung rules create another problem |
Who should avoid buying in a Munich Erhaltungssatzung area?
Developers and value-add investors should often avoid Munich Erhaltungssatzung properties; ordinary owner-occupiers usually have much less to fear.
The clearest bad fits are a Mietshaus bought for condo conversion, an old building bought for demolition, a heavily tenanted property where the plan relies on aggressive repositioning, or a dated apartment priced on the assumption that we can turn it into a luxury product.
A highly leveraged landlord also needs to be careful. Munich's latest whole-building transactions imply gross income yields of only around 3.3% on average, and high condo prices leave limited room for mistakes. If the deal depends on rapid rent increases or expensive renovation unlocking a much higher resale price, the ordinance can remove exactly the flexibility the model needs.
The calculation looks much better for someone buying an existing condominium to live in for ten or fifteen years. If the apartment already has the right layout, the building is in decent shape and no ambitious redevelopment is planned, the restrictions may have little practical effect on daily ownership.
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So should you avoid buying in a Munich Erhaltungssatzung area?
No. We would still buy the right Munich apartment in an Erhaltungssatzung area today, but we would walk away quickly when the price depends on renovation, conversion or redevelopment rights that may never exist.
The latest evidence makes the distinction fairly clear. Munich now has 36 protected areas covering around a quarter of its housing stock, yet the city's condominium market remains active: transaction numbers rose 3% in the first half of 2026 and resale prices were broadly stable. Buyers have plainly not stopped buying homes because of Erhaltungssatzung.
For an owner-occupier purchasing an already-established condo in Haidhausen, Neuhausen or another desirable protected neighborhood, we would focus on whether the apartment already suits us, whether the building is financially healthy and whether any planned renovation is realistic. The Erhaltungssatzung alone would rarely make us reject it.
Investors deserve a tougher standard because Munich property is still expensive relative to rent. The latest Mietshaus transactions imply roughly a 3.3% gross income yield, which gives very little room for a strategy that later turns out to be legally impossible.
A developer buying for condo conversion, luxury repositioning or demolition faces the clearest answer: in that situation, an Erhaltungssatzung can wipe out the main source of profit.
If we like the property largely as it exists today, an Erhaltungssatzung is manageable. If we only like what we hope to turn it into, we should probably buy somewhere else.
OUR METHODOLOGY
This analysis tests whether buyers should avoid Munich properties inside an Erhaltungssatzung area by separating the legal label from the purchase strategy. We compare how the rules affect an existing condo bought largely as-is, a tenanted buy-to-let, a major refurbishment, a Mietshaus conversion and a demolition or redevelopment plan.
For regulation, we prioritized Munich's current implementation guidance and the underlying federal legislation. Munich's Erhaltungssatzung pages and building-measures guidance were used for the current protected-area count, approval rules, demolition policy, modernization standards and boundary checks, while Baugesetzbuch §172 provides the federal legal basis for preservation controls and condominium conversion.
We treated conversion risk separately because it can change the entire value of a whole-building investment. Munich's current guidance on Umwandlung in Sondereigentum was used for the rules applying to smaller buildings, the seven-year tenant-sale commitment and the tougher route for buildings with 11 or more apartments.
For the Vorkaufsrecht, we used Baugesetzbuch §24 and the Federal Administrative Court's 9 November 2021 judgment in BVerwG 4 C 1.20. The statutory exclusion for ordinary condominium-right purchases is important for existing Eigentumswohnungen, while the court ruling explains why Munich's pre-emption power over whole-property transactions is more limited today than older commentary can suggest.
For rents and investment economics, we separated preservation law from Germany's wider tenancy rules. Munich's Mietspiegel 2025 provides the €15.38/m² average net cold rent for the stock it measures, while BGB §§556d, 558 and 559 provide the framework for new-tenancy rent limits, increases during existing tenancies and modernization surcharges.
The main market evidence comes from the Gutachterausschuss München's Halbjahresreport 2026, which is based on actual purchase-price records rather than advertised asking prices. We used its roughly 4,950 condominium and part-ownership transactions, resale price movements, new-apartment pricing and the approximately 30× annual gross-income multiple for Mietwohnhäuser. The roughly 3.3% gross income yield in the article is simply the reciprocal of that 30× multiple and is used as a first-pass return measure before expenses, financing and taxes.
We did not assume a standard Erhaltungssatzung price discount because Munich does not publish a controlled protected-versus-unprotected transaction series that isolates the effect from street, building age, condition, tenancy and apartment characteristics. Citywide transaction data is therefore used only as a market-health check, not as proof that the ordinance itself raises or lowers the value of a specific apartment.
For short-term letting, we used Munich's current Zweckentfremdung guidance and ordinance to keep that regime separate from Erhaltungssatzung law. The eight-week or 56-day threshold, the treatment of full-time tourist accommodation and the developing registration framework come from those city sources.
Key sources include Landeshauptstadt München on Erhaltungssatzungen, Munich's guidance on building measures in protected areas, Munich's guidance on conversion into condominium ownership, Baugesetzbuch §172, Baugesetzbuch §24, the Federal Administrative Court's 2021 Vorkaufsrecht judgment, Munich's Mietspiegel 2025, the Gutachterausschuss München Halbjahresreport 2026, and Munich's current Zweckentfremdung guidance.
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