EANS-News: Hypoport AG / Hypoport Group grows by nearly 30 percent

Provisional results 2008

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Berlin (euro adhoc) - 17 March 2009: The strategy of diversification
that Hypoport Group has adopted is proving its worth. Last year, the
Group increased revenues by nearly 30 percent. The company has
further expanded its market share in spite of difficult market
conditions. In addition, the results enabled the growing company to
make decisive investments in the next generation of its Europace
platform. As a result, current earnings are slightly below the
previous year's result in the interests of future development.

Hypoport, the internet-based provider of all-round financial
services, managed to increase Group revenues by a further 29.3
percent to about EUR 53 million in fiscal year 2008 (2007 revenue:
EUR 41 million). As a result, the Berlin-based growth company has
been able to invest substantially in strengthening its future market
position, in spite of the challenging market environment. The Group
has been able to gain further market shares in Germany by increasing
its focus on marketing and sales. These efforts were joined by
considerable investments in IT to push ahead with the development of
the next generation Europace platform, which will cover an even
broader spectrum of products. As a result of this additional
expenditure, which aims to strengthen the Group's position in the
market, EBITDA was slightly below the previous year's result at EUR
8.1 million (EBIT 2007: EUR 8.7 million). Ronald Slabke, Co-CEO,
explains the company's strategy as follows: "We are focusing all our
efforts on taking advantage of the opportunities on offer in order to
emerge from the crisis as one of the winners. We are convinced that
these investments will significantly enhance our ability to compete
and will put us in a stronger position to firmly establish our
platform standard and our range of services in the marketplace".

All business divisions contributed to the growth in revenues. The
"Corporate real estate clients" division was particularly dynamic,
posting growth in excess of 40 percent, followed by the "Private
clients" and "Financial service providers" divisions with growth
rates of about 30 percent each. Prof. Dr. Thomas Kretschmar, the
second Co-CEO at Hypoport, sees the results as confirmation that the
Group has adopted the right strategy of diversification: "Difficult
times prove that we were right not to put all of our eggs in one
basket. The growing earnings from more successful business divisions
can compensate those other business divisions that are faced with
more severe margin pressure. As such, the combination of all business
models together allows the company overall to make full use of the
opportunities for growth offered by the current market environment.
We want to rank among Germany's major providers of financial services
in a few years' time. In addition to the strong growth, of which we
are already proving ourselves capable, we expect EBIT margins to
outperform the industry average over the long term given that our IT
overheads allow our internet-based business model to systematically
exploit economies of scale as it continues to grow".

About Hypoport AG Hypoport Group is an internet-based all-round
financial services provider based in Berlin. The Group employs more
than 450 people. The company has been listed in the Prime Standard on
Deutsche Börse since the end of 2007. Its business model consists of
two reciprocally beneficial pillars - the sale of financial products
(Dr. Klein & Co. AG) and the provision of a platform for transacting
financial products via the internet.

Hypoport operates the Europace B2B financial marketplace, which is
the largest German online platform for transacting financing
products. A fully integrated system links more than 30 banks with
several thousand financial advisors, thus enabling the quick and
direct agreement of contracts. The platform's highly automated
processes generate considerable cost benefits. Nowadays, Europace
processes some 400 financing transactions every day. Hypoport AG
publishes the monthly house price index (HPX) based on real
transaction data.

A list of the banks and service providers that use the platform can
be found at http://www.hypoport.de/partner.html. The presentation of
the provisional results for fiscal year 2008 is available for
download at http://www.hypoport.de/publikationen.html.

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Further inquiry note:

Michaela Reimann

Group Communications Manager

Telefon: +49 (0) 30 42086 1936

E-Mail: michaela.reimann@hypoport.de

Branche: Financial & Business Services
ISIN: DE0005493365
WKN: 549336
Börsen: Börse Frankfurt / regulated dealing/prime standard