As of: February 9, 2024, 4:44 p.m
By: Nadja Hoffmann
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Everything that is in his luxury office is now being auctioned: René Benko.
© Aurena.at.
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He resided like the Sun King: When it comes to auctioning the inventory, the insolvent Signa Holding is now down to the nitty-gritty.
The first floor of the company headquarters is going under the hammer.
Huge rooms, gilded ornaments and the chicest designer furniture: How does someone who has conquered all of Europe live?
Of course magnificent!
In the case of real estate tycoon René Benko (46), the rule is: as magnificent as possible!
The Austrian chose a highly baroque palace in Vienna's 1st district for the headquarters of his Signa Holding: Palais Harrach.
The 100 square meter main office is reminiscent of nothing less than the palace rooms in Versailles.
From there, Sun King Benko pulled his many, many strings.
Until deep dark clouds rolled over the Signa Empire.
With each bankruptcy, Benko, who was thrown out of his chic palace, fell more and more.
Anyone who wants to bring home the glory of better days has the opportunity to do so now.
Because the so-called first floor of the Signa headquarters is going under the hammer.
Magnificent down to the last detail: the Signa Holding headquarters.
© Aurena.at
The first floor of the palace served as office and representative space for the 46-year-old.
For this reason alone it is exciting to click through the auction offers from the auctioneer Aurena.at on the Internet.
They allow a look through the keyhole that would never have been possible before the empire went bankrupt.
Now everyone can see the environment in which the real estate juggler and his employees operated.
1000 items from her first floor are now being auctioned off on www.aurena.at.
The offer is diverse.
It starts with Benko's “Chancellor President” office chair and ends with a toilet paper holder in a gold design.
In between: everything that was part of everyday life in the stately rooms - Signa coat hangers, house plants, chairs, desks, pictures, an electric scooter, lamps, sideboards and even a housing for fire extinguishers.
Prices often start at just a few euros.
The more functional and high-quality an object, the more expensive the starting price.
Anyone interested can register.
The first surcharges will be available from February 24th at 9 a.m.
Until then, the amounts are likely to continue to rise.
In the first round of auctions in January, for example, a Signa cactus fetched 220 euros and a doormat even reached 1,600 euros.
The money is needed because Signa Holding left behind an incredible mountain of debt when it went bankrupt in November 2023.
It amounts to five billion euros.