What conditions are necessary for privatization to actually happen?

[fodazd]

Hello.

I currently have a bunch of buildings I want to privatize, but even though my investment pool is gigantic and does not spend nearly enough to deplete itself, the buildings just do not sell. Usually when I click the privatization button, it happens within a few days assuming the buildings are in "good shape". In my current case, I would say the buildings *seem* to be in good shape: Full employment, positive balance, reasonable productivity. But still it does not sell, even after months of having them on privatization. Which made me ask a question I do not know the answer to: Under what circumstances do buildings that are set to privatize actually get sold? Or rather: What circumstances *prevent* a building from being sold?

I always *assumed* that full employment, a positive balance and/or reasonable productivity are needed, but I am not actually sure about that, especially now with this new situation... There is also no monopoly on this building group in my country, so this shouldn't be the problem. Does anyone here know what could be the cause of this, and ideally what are the general criteria for privatization to actually happen?

 

[N4tticus]

The investment pool cannot buy any building type with a cap (logging, fishing, farms, oil, etc... everything but factories) if that building is at max capacity. For example if you have 30/30 iron mines in a state, none can be bought. If you delete one level down to 29/30 it allows the investment pool to buy them and they will swiftly get bought out.

Unfortunately this has been a well known bug since the investment pool was added years ago, so I wouldn't hold my breath about it getting fixed any time soon.