Howoge

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Howoge Wohnungsbaugesellschaft mbH

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legal form GmbH
founding June 28, 1990
Seat Berlin , Germany
management Thomas Felgenhauer, Ulrich Schiller
Number of employees 700+
sales 329.4 million euros
Branch Housing industry
Website www.howoge.de
As of June 3, 2019

The HOWOGE (proper spelling HOWOGE) housing mbH is one of the six local housing company of Berlin . It was founded in its current legal form as a GmbH in 1990 and belongs to the State of Berlin.

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Overview

The company manages a real estate portfolio of 70,308 units, 59,673 of which are apartments, mainly in the Berlin districts of Lichtenberg , Treptow-Köpenick , Weißensee and  Pankow . The housing stock consists mainly of prefabricated buildings from the 1970s and 1980s, but also old buildings and housing developments from the first half of the 20th century. Before the fall of the Wall, the company was part of the municipal housing administration (KWV) in East Berlin .

As of December 31, 2017, 676 people were employed, including 22 trainees and 4 students. Structured in the organizational form of a holding company , the housing company takes on the core business of the real estate group, which deals with the letting, administration and support of its own portfolios and the customer base. The parent company has three subsidiaries: HOWOGE Servicegesellschaft mbH, HOWOGE Wärme GmbH, the development company Elisabeth-Aue GmbH, which was founded together with Gesobau, and Kramer + Kramer Bau- und Projektmanagement GmbH.

Howoge Servicegesellschaft mbH

The HOWOGE Servicegesellschaft provides residential services for HOWOGE and other real estate companies. The services include concierge , caretaker and neighborhood helper services. At the end of the 2017 financial year, Howoge Servicegesellschaft mbH had 165 employees.

Howoge Wärme GmbH

Since 2005, the energy management of the HOWOGE inventory has been one of the tasks of HOWOGE Wärme GmbH. She is responsible for consumption controls as well as building analyzes and the planning of energy saving measures.

criticism

In 2010, the Berlin Senate investigated Howoge's violations of the Housing Law Act. In particular, there were unlawful awarding of contracts to private companies and a lack of Europe-wide tenders for large contracts. As a result, the two managing directors at the time were dismissed.

history

Founded in 1990 as a state-owned company, HOWOGE took over a large part of the prefabricated buildings in the large Hohenschönhausen housing estate from the GDR's municipal housing administration . The name chosen now originated from the Hohenschönhauser Housing Association. 1997 HOWOGE acquired the housing company Lichtenberg mbH.

The core task of the first decade was the repair and modernization of the apartments and the upgrading of the living environment. In addition, around 1,000 new residential units were built. In 2013, almost the entire portfolio was renovated, including 1,400 apartments in listed buildings and facilities, for example the Rupprecht ensemble in Weitlingkiez , Hendrichplatz in Alt-Lichtenberg, Kernhofer Strasse 5 and 13 in Victoria City and the Schnitterhäuser in Berlin- Malchow . With the purchase of approx. 170 apartments in Adlershof and Johannisthal (2006), 17 apartments in Weißensee (2008) and approx. 3,200 apartments in Buch (2009), HOWOGE expanded its portfolio beyond the Lichtenberg district.

Since the 2010s, HOWOGE has also had new buildings built on a larger scale. One of these projects is the Treskow-Höfe in Berlin-Karlshorst . A college dormitory from the late 1950s was demolished here, archaeologists scoured the ground and found historical remains of an early settlement. By June 2015, 414 2 to 4 room apartments had been completed. In addition, two senior living communities and a day-care center for around 90 children have been created in the Treskow-Höfe . The Treskow-Höfe project was awarded the German Client Award in 2016. By mid-2016, a total of 840 apartments in the districts of Lichtenberg and Pankow had been realized by HOWOGE. By 2030, the company plans to increase its portfolio to 80,000 residential units through acquisitions and new construction.

Ecological and social commitment

Since the beginning of the 1990s, HOWOGE has been focusing on energy-efficient renovation . According to the company's own information, the CO 2 emissions per apartment are 1.12 tonnes per year and rental unit, well below the overall Berlin average (as of December 31, 2016). At 1.09 t / a per rental unit, the value in 2014 was even lower. The increase is due to the deterioration in the CO 2 value of Vattenfall district heating. In 2011, the company signed a climate protection agreement with the State of Berlin to comply with the company-specific upper limit of 1.12 t / a per residential unit by 2020. On November 22, 2013, HOWOGE was awarded the German Sustainability Prize in the category “Germany's most sustainable products / services”. In total, HOWOGE invested around 1.3 billion euros in the renovation of the existing building, so that the degree of renovation in the core portfolio is 98 percent according to its own statements.

In the social field, the company supports institutions, associations and initiatives, such as the Theater an der Parkaue , SV Lichtenberg 47 or the Berlin-Friedrichsfelde zoo . Howoge invested a total of 1.2 million euros in social engagement in 2017.

Howoge has been named Germany's most tenant-friendly company three times by the TTR Group . Howoge took first place among the Berlin housing companies in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual financial statements for the 2017 financial year, annex to the group management report for the 2017 financial year. HOWOGE housing company with limited liability, February 18, 2019, accessed on June 3, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Howoge made her own laws . ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed February 20, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Information about the Treskow-Höfe , accessed on October 24, 2014.
  4. ↑ sustainability. Retrieved on March 4, 2020 (German).
  5. ↑ a b Howoge mbH: Sustainability Report 2017/2018. August 2018, accessed March 4, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Press release HOWOGE November 26, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Howoge press release of December 20, 2013 .