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The Moneybags of the Bundesliga

Balance Sheet View: The Stadium Is an Asset — But Only Partly Realisable

Part of this asset base is tied to a special-purpose property that does not meet a broad third-party market.

The balance sheet looks unassailably solid. But a methodological problem: valuation standards such as RICS typically treat special-purpose properties via the DRC/cost approach, because comparable market transactions are absent and value is strongly use-dependent. For FC Bayern, the arena is hugely valuable — from a distress perspective, however, that value would be only partially realisable.

The market of potential successor tenants consists of precisely one third-division club — which couldn't afford the arena on its first attempt.

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