EANS-News: Hypoport AG / EUROPACE shows that the market is recovering

The transaction figures from the EUROPACE platform indicate that the
market for mortgages stabilised towards the end of the quarter.
Personal loans and building society accounts are also becoming
increasingly popular.

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Subtitle: The transaction figures from the EUROPACE platform indicate
that the market for mortgages stabilised towards the end of the
quarter. Personal loans and building society accounts are also
becoming increasingly popular.

Berlin, 19 April 2010 (euro adhoc) - The total volume of financing
transactions processed in the EUROPACE marketplace amounted to about
Euro 3.04 billion in the first quarter 2010. As such, the volume has
remained virtually stable and is a mere 0.16 percent lower by
quarter-on-quarter comparison. This moderate development is due,
above all, to the fact that mortgage transactions were still
declining slightly at the start of the quarter. Currently, the
volume of mortgage transactions amounts to Euro 2.473 billion,
equivalent to a 6 percent decline by quarter-on-quarter comparison.
According to Thilo Weigand, member of the Management Board and
responsible for the Financial Service Providers business unit at
Hypoport AG: "Compared with the slumps witnessed in past quarters,
this indicates that the market is returning to normal." Both building
society accounts and personal loans continue to show satisfactory
development. Compared with the previous quarter, personal loans
increased by 15.38 percent in the first quarter 2010 to their current
volume of Euro 360 million. This equates to a rise of 19.6 percent
over the figure posted for the same quarter last year. Building
society accounts increased by 554.8 percent compared with the same
quarter last year. In a quarter-on-quarter comparison with the fourth
quarter 2009, the latest addition to the EUROPACE platform increased
its volume by another 107.2 percent to its current level of Euro 203
million.

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 40 product providers 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 downloaded
from www.hypoport.de, as can the Annual Report 2008.

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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: Frankfurt / regulated dealing/prime standard