EANS-News: Hypoport exploits challenging market conditions to generate growth

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Berlin, (euro adhoc) - 5 November 2012: Hypoport continued to win
market share and increase its revenue in the first nine months of
2012. The online financial service provider raised its revenue in the
first three quarters of this year by 7 per cent compared with the
corresponding period of 2011 to EUR62.9 million (Q1-Q3 2011: EUR58.8
million). Persistently tough market conditions - especially in the
insurance sector - reduced earnings before interest, tax,
depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) by 11 per cent year on year to
EUR6.9 million (Q1-Q3 2011: EUR7.8 million).

Ronald Slabke, Chief Executive Officer of Hypoport AG, explained the
current market environment: "Although the low interest rates and
attractive borrowing terms on offer in the real-estate market have
fuelled strong demand, our property finance business has stagnated at
a high level because real estate is in increasingly short supply.
Demand in the insurance market is suffering from the effects of
continually low interest rates and the regulation imposed by
politicians. And because the central bank has been maintaining
liquidity at artificially high levels, the commercial banks have been
offering less attractive basic investment products to consumers."

In the Private Clients business unit - which offers insurance
products, loans and investments - the challenges facing the insurance
market in particular caused revenue and earnings to fall in the
corresponding product segment. The consistently solid performance
achieved by the mortgage finance business was unable to compensate
for this. At the same time, the Hypoport Group is exploiting the
opportunities presented by these changes in the market. Slabke
stressed: "We are a growing organisation that continues to benefit
from the trend towards impartial advice. In the third quarter alone
our team of advisers grew by 25 per cent to 744 people, bucking the
general market trend."

The Institutional Clients unit continued to benefit from the
attractive interest rates on offer. Housing companies, commercial
investors and local authorities showed a keen interest in
medium-sized and big-ticket loans. This business unit reported sound
third-quarter results on the back of normal levels of intra-year
volatility. The Financial Service Providers unit continued to perform
well, with the volume of transactions processed on EUROPACE rising to
EUR22 billion and a constant stream of new partners deciding to work
with its platforms. At the same time, existing partners used its
financial marketplace more intensively and in more diverse ways.

Given the persistently tough market environment, Slabke expects that
revenue growth for 2012 as a whole will be higher than in 2011 but
that the net profit for 2012 will be lower year on year.

Further inquiry note:
Michaela Reimann
Head of Corporate Communications
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