EANS-News: Hypoport AG generates growth in turbulent times: preliminary financial results for 2011

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Berlin, 5 March 2012 (euro adhoc) - The Hypoport Group raised its
revenue by 26 per cent to approximately EUR84 million in 2011,
carving out a distinctive position for itself in the marketplace. The
Financial Service Providers and Private Clients business units
significantly expanded their market share, while the Corporate Real
Estate Clients unit managed to build on the outstanding record level
of revenue that it had reported for 2010. Earnings before interest,
tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) replicated its prior-year
all-time high, reaching EUR11 million.

The Hypoport Group's strong operating performance in 2011 was boosted
by growing demand for real estate and the increasing importance of
one-stop advisory solutions around loans, investments and insurance.
The considerable demand for real estate drove broad-based growth,
especially during the second half of the year. The Private Clients
business unit achieved above-average year-on-year increases even in a
stagnant market for insurance and investments. Consequently, the
Hypoport Group's total revenue rose by 26 per cent to EUR84.5 million
(2010: EUR66.9 million). Whereas customer demand benefited - in the
form of attractive borrowing terms - from the crises affecting
financial markets, the euro and the banks, the extraordinary level of
diversification among product suppliers that has existed since the
outbreak of the financial crisis put downward pressure on margins.
Against this backdrop, with an EBITDA of EUR11.1 million in 2011 the
Company managed to reach the record EBITDA figure of EUR11.1 million
achieved in 2010. "In an environment that continues to be
characterised by severe turmoil and considerable unpredictability,
Hypoport has once again excelled by generating consistent and
profitable growth in 2011", commented Ronald Slabke, the Chief
Executive Officer of Hypoport AG. His forecast: "Assuming that market
conditions remain more or less unchanged, we again expect to report
double-digit revenue growth and a year-on-year improvement in
earnings for 2012."

Information on Hypoport AG As an independent financial product
distributor that runs a B2B financial marketplace, Hypoport operates
successfully in two mutually reinforcing segments. It always provides
the simplest access to the best financial services. In the form of
EUROPACE - its online financial marketplace - Hypoport develops and
operates the largest German platform offering mortgages, building
finance products and personal loans. A fully integrated system links
more than 160 partners - banks, insurers and financial product
distributors. Several thousand users execute as many as 15,000
financing transactions worth a total of up to EUR2 billion on
EUROPACE every month.

The Hypoport subsidiary Dr. Klein & Co. AG is an independent online
distributor of financial products. This firm's specialists provide
private clients with a full range of advisory services around
mortgage finance, insurance and investments. Dr. Klein & Co. AG has
been a major financial service partner to housing companies, local
authorities and commercial property investors since 1954. Hypoport AG
is headquartered in Berlin, employs approximately 500 people and is
listed in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

Further inquiry note:
Michaela Reimann
Group Communications Manager
Telefon: +49 (0) 30 42086 1936
E-Mail: michaela.reimann@hypoport.de

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company: Hypoport AG
Klosterstraße 71
D-10179 Berlin
phone: +49(0)30 42086-0
FAX: +49(0)30 42086-1999
mail: ir@hypoport.de
WWW: http://www.hypoport.de
sector: Financial & Business Services
ISIN: DE0005493365
indexes: CDAX, Prime All Share
stockmarkets: regulated dealing/prime standard: Frankfurt
language: English