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Personnel: Commercial Director of HOWOGE, Katharina Greis, to leave the company
 

Berlin, 31^st March 2025. Katharina Greis, the commercial director of HOWOGE Wohnungsbaugesellschaft mbH, will be leaving her position at her own request as of 31^st May 2025.  She has already informed the supervisory board and shareholder of her decision.

Since April 2023, Kathatina Greis has shared responsibility for managing the state-owned housing company with Ulrich Schiller. She has specific management responsibility for the areas of Treasury, Finance and Accounting, Controlling and Data Modelling, Legal, Personnel, Sustainability, Governance, Risk & Compliance and Internal Auditing. Her responsibilities also include the subsidiary HOWOGE Service GmbH.

In the financial year 2024, HOWOGE achieved a transaction volume of EUR 1.4 billion. To a great extent, this success was attributable to the areas for which Katharina Greis is responsible. She created the foundations for the sound and diversified capital structure of the company, which is a necessary pre-condition for further growth. Under her management, HOWOGE successfully issued, for example, its first ever Social Bond and ensured the timely refinancing of corporate bonds that were due for repayment.

During her period of office, the holdings of HOWOGE have increased in size - through new builds and acquisitions - from 75,500 apartments to over 80,000. Moreover, the staff numbers have grown from 1,000 employees to more than 1,400, which was particularly due to the implementation of the company’s strategy for providing more services in-house. During this time, Katharina Greis also successfully restructured the commercial areas of the company. In particular, she achieved a comprehensive improvement in ongoing processes with her focus on efficient and respectful communication. In all of this, she was successful in implementing the projects she was entrusted with whilst, at the same time, achieving a successful transformation of structures within the company.

The supervisory board and the company’s shareholder would like to thank Katharina Greis for her enormous commitment and valuable collaboration and wish her all the very best and every success in her future career.

About HOWOGE

HOWOGE Wohnungsbaugesellschaft mbH is one of the six publicly owned housing companies belonging to the State of Berlin. With a housing portfolio of approximately 81,600 apartments (as of 1^st January 2025), the company is one of the largest landlords in Germany. In the medium to long term, HOWOGE intends to expand its housing portfolio, particularly through new builds, to around 100,000 apartments. As part of the Berlin school building campaign, HOWOGE is also taking on for the State of Berlin the refurbishment of existing schools and the building of new ones.

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