EANS-News: Christmas gift: Hypoport to donate new homes

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Berlin, (euro adhoc) - 9 December 2009: Instead of Christmas gifts to
its clients and staff, Hypoport has decided to support the poorest
of the poor this year. The Group is collaborating with the German
Development Aid Agency for Social Residential and Settlement
Projects (Deutsche Entwicklungshilfe für soziales Wohnungs- und
Siedlungswesen e. V. (DESWOS)) to support a residential project in
Tanzania. In addition to homes for single mothers, a centre is also
being built where loans can be arranged more easily, both now and
in the future.

Financial services provider Hypoport has launched an extensive
Christmas campaign to support a community residential project for
single mothers in Tanzania. Instead of its usual Christmas gifts to
clients and staff, the Group is making a donation where help really
is needed. The programme launched by DESWOS and its project
partner in Tanzania builds on the two pillars of "home" and
"financing" to secure the safety and sustainable independence of
people in need.

Following two successful pilot projects, a further three
residential settlements comprising 72 homes are being built in the
small town of Arusha, in the northeast of Tanzania. These homes
consist of three rooms, with an outlying toilet and bathroom. So
illnesses caused by a lack of hygiene can be prevented. In addition,
each house will be connected to a drinking water and electricity
supply. Community centres are also being built in the three
settlements. When they are finished, they will provide a venue for
meetings focusing on financing issues. In order to become
independent, the residents require start-up capital. Normal loans
are, however, usually not an option that is open to them, since
they cannot provide collateral. They are therefore going to join
forces to create so-called savings and loan groups, in line
with the principle of microfinance. This valuable self-help tool
will enable them not just to start their own business, but also to
pay off their houses. The repayments will be channelled into a
solidarity fund and the resulting cash flow used to grant loans
to destitute people, thus enabling further single parents to be
housed.

Hypoport group is extremely familiar with both pillars - "home" and
"financing" - within Europe. Dr. Klein & Co. AG, its wholly
owned subsidiary, started business back in 1954 by providing
advice and financing for the German residential real estate
market. To this day, Dr. Klein leads the market in this segment. In
addition, EUROPACE, Hypoport´s independent web-based platform for
financing transactions between banks and agents, is the largest of
its kind in Europe. According to Hans Peter Trampe, member of the
Management Board of Dr. Klein & Co. AG: "We consciously selected
the DESWOS project as the recipient of our donation. Tanzania is not
only one of the poorest countries in Africa, it is also one of the
most politically stable. So not only is help desperately needed;
it actually has a real chance of making a difference, as well. Added
to which, we know DESWOS and Mr Wilkens personally. The serious
nature of the project is demonstrated, not just by himself, but
also by the fact that Ulrich Wickert is the patron. And last but
not least: The issues addressed by this project in Africa are
the same issues that helped us to be successful in Europe,
but on a different level. We can and want to be identified with
it", according to Trampe.

About DESWOS DESWOS is a private, non-profit association. It is
supported by the GdW associations and their members. DESWOS aims
to combat the shortage of housing and the poverty in less
developed countries by providing assistance so that poor
families can help themselves by building homes and securing
their financial futures. The members of DESWOS comprise more than
660 residential real estate companies that are members of the GdW
Federal Association of German Residential and Property Companies
(GdW Bundesverband deutscher Wohnungs- und Immobilienunternehmen),
together with more than 170 private individuals who operate in
the residential real estate market.

Contact Werner Wilkens Managing Director of DESWOS Deutsche
Entwicklungshilfe für soziales Wohnungs- und Siedlungswesen e.V.

Innere Kanalstr. 69
50823 Cologne
Tel. : 0221 57 989 60
Mobile: 0172 215 83 06
Fax: 0221 57 989 99
E-mail: werner.wilkens@deswos.de
www.deswos.de

About Hypoport AG Hypoport Group is an internet-based all-round
financial services provider based in Berlin. The Group employs some
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 Annual Report 2008 is
available for download at http://www.hypoport.de/publikationen.html.

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