Former Rindzele drug rehabilitation centre put up for auction
State real estate company VNĪ is auctioning the former Rindzele drug rehabilitation centre in Tukums municipality, owned by the Ministry of Health, with a starting price of €148,400. A former sanitary-epidemiological station in Valmiera is also on offer.
Latvia's state-owned real estate company VAS "Valsts nekustamie īpašumi" (VNĪ), which manages property owned by the state, announced on 9 November auctions for two properties belonging to the Ministry of Health: the former Rindzele drug rehabilitation centre in Tukums municipality and a property at 9 Pāvila Rozīša Street in Valmiera. Both auctions close on 7 December.
The Rindzele centre
The property is located in Rindzele, in Zentene parish of Tukums municipality, beside Lake Rindzele. It comprises a 6.8-hectare plot, including 0.98 hectares of forest land, or 15% of the territory, and 18 structures. Four residential and residential-administrative buildings were commissioned between 1900 and 1930; they have two or three storeys.
Two residential lease agreements are in force. They run until the property is sold and handed to a new owner or holder, but no later than 31 October 2027 and 24 May 2028. The tenancy rights are not registered in the land register. The starting price is €148,400.
From 6 January 2006 the centre was a division of the state-owned company Ģintermuiža Hospital, located 80 kilometres from the hospital. To use funds earmarked for patient treatment more efficiently, the hospital's board decided in 2009 to provide care at the hospital's main premises in Jelgava. As a result, the narcological rehabilitation programme in Rindzele was discontinued on 1 September 2009. It was the only type of medical care provided at the site.
The Valmiera property
The Valmiera property consists of a 4,307-square-metre plot and three structures: a sanitary-epidemiological station of 1,779 square metres, a garage of 41.8 square metres and a shed of 36.8 square metres. The three-storey station building was commissioned in 1965. Its technical condition is assessed as satisfactory, and it is partly used for commercial activity. The starting price is €250,000.
VNĪ says that properties which public institutions no longer need in the long term and which cause losses to the state are sold at public auction, or their transfer to other holders is considered.
