Baufi24.de
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 2006 |
| Seat | Hamburg |
| management | Stephan Scharfenorth, Michael Lorenz, Tomas Peeters |
| Number of employees | about 100 |
| Branch | Financial services |
| Website | www.baufi24.de |
The online portal Baufi24.de is a guide and comparison site for real estate financing and mortgage interest . Baufi24.de is run by Baufi24 Baufinanzierung AG, a broker for construction and real estate financing in Germany.
Baufi24.de was launched in 2006 and is based in Hamburg . With 35 branches and hundreds of independent financing partners, the company is represented in more than 260 locations in Germany.
history
Baufi24.de was founded in 2006 by Stephan Scharfenorth in Hamburg as an editorially managed building finance portal. The aim was to provide interested parties with comprehensive, group-independent information about the topics of construction finance and real estate finance. With Michael Lorenz as the second managing director, Baufi24 GmbH (now Baufi24 Baufinanzierung AG) was founded in 2008 through a spin-off .
In 2008, Baufi24 started a sales network for independent mortgage brokers, which meanwhile has more than 1,000 cooperation partners. The sales network supports individual brokers in customer acquisition and in the technical processing of loan brokerage .
The company has been building a nationwide network of branches since 2017. The focus of the business model is on advice on the subject of real estate financing, the transparent comparison of conditions and the brokering of suitable financing . At the beginning of 2020, Baufi24 had 35 branches in Germany.
In 2019 Baufi24.de published a meta search engine for real estate that combines a real estate search with extensive financing data.
Tomas Peeters has been strengthening the management of Baufi24 since March 1, 2020. Prior to that, Peeters was Chief Strategy Officer at ING Germany and then a member of the Management Board of Interhyp AG .
In May 2020 the company changed its legal form to a stock corporation . In the course of this, Baufi24 GmbH was renamed Baufi24 Baufinanzierung AG.
On May 27, 2020, Baufi24 Baufinanzierung AG took over LoanLink GmbH. With the integration of the CRM software provider in the building finance sector, the digitalization of customer service is to be further advanced.
Services
On the online portal Baufi24.de you can find various calculators and advice articles for orientation and information gathering on the topics of building finance, building society savings and consumer loans .
Since the 3rd quarter of 2019, Baufi24.de has been providing an all-in-one service for buying real estate under the name immo-shopping24. Customers are given the opportunity to combine a meta search on online portals and brokers with the application process and the financing of the property.
The core business of Baufi24 Baufinanzierung AG is the comparison and brokering of construction and real estate financing. The consultants from Baufi24 compare the offers of 450 lenders at the moment. This also includes follow -up financing , forward loans and consumer loans.
The advice takes place online, by telephone or in person at the Baufi24 offices. As usual with loan brokers, Baufi24's offer is free for customers.
Another business area of Baufi24 Baufinanzierung AG is the development and sale of CRM software for finance brokers.
Baufi24.de has received several awards. Among other things, the company was the test winner in a customer survey conducted by the daily newspaper Die Welt and received the “Very high customer trust” seal of approval from the industry magazine Wirtschaftswoche .
Others
Baufi24.de is an expert site that is widely cited in the media for the subject of construction and real estate financing. The statistical data collection, calculation examples and expert opinions of the online portal were in various national media picked up and trade media.
The online portal contributed to the production of two guides on the subjects of "Real estate and construction financing" and "Real estate as a financial investment", which were published by Haufe-Verlag .
In 2015 and 2016, the company presented the “Baufi24 Award”, its own architecture competition for students. The 2015 creative competition focused on the subject of “urban living concepts”, while the 2016 competition focused on the subject of “meeting point: playground”. In total, prize money totaling 40,000 euros was awarded.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt: Construction money broker Baufi24 opens new branches. October 8, 2019, accessed May 15, 2020 .
- ↑ AssCompact: About mortgage lending in times of persistently low interest rates. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Cash: “We are as modern and fast as our customers want” . No. 5/2020 , p. 110 .
- ↑ Press portal: Baufi24 Baufinanzierung AG expands tech expertise. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
- ↑ AssCompact: Baufi24 launches Germany's first all-round real estate portal. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
- ↑ mw Verlag GmbH: The 8 best web pages for building society savings & real estate finance - The web address book for Germany. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
- ↑ lifePR: Industry favorite: Baufi24 wins as Prize Champion 2019, Baufi24, press release - lifePR. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
- ↑ WirtschaftsWoche: Trust ranking: These are the favorite brands of Germans. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
- ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: When the insurer finances the house. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Capital: When real estate financing wobbles due to Corona. April 12, 2020, accessed May 15, 2020 .
- ↑ WirtschaftsWoche: Construction financing: When the dream of owning a home is in danger. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
- ↑ FAZ.net: Corona crisis: Is my dream home in danger? Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Michael Fabricius: Baukindergeld: So use your last chance . In: THE WORLD . October 10, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed May 15, 2020]).
- ↑ Manager Magazin: Real Estate Financing: Mini interest lures home buyers into risk. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Eike Schulze, Anette Stein: Real estate and construction financing . 2nd Edition. Haufe, Freiburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-648-04721-7 .
- ↑ Eike Schulze, Anette Stein, Andreas Tietgen, Stefan Möller: Real estate as an investment . Haufe, Freiburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-648-07057-4 .
- ↑ bund German interior designers BDIA: Student Competition "Urban living concepts: make meeting rooms." October 20, 2015, accessed May 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Bundesstiftung Baukultur: Baufi24 Award "City Development" - student competitions to promote innovative urban development concepts. July 7, 2016, accessed May 15, 2020 .