HypZert GmbH

Certification Body

Coordinates

Georgenstrasse 21
D-10117 Berlin

Tel.: +49 30 206 229 0
Fax: +49 30 206 229 12

Structure

Managing Director: Reiner Lux
Director: 1
Secretariat: 2

Number of direct members: 1050
Number of qualified valuers (inviduals): 1050
Number of valuation companies: 0

Member of TEGoVA since: 2011
Category of membership: Observer

Founded in 1996, HypZert is the leading personel certification body for real estate valuers in Germany

Permanent Representative to TEGoVA

Reiner Lux

Managing Director

HypZert
Georgenstrasse 21
D-10117 Berlin

Tel.: +49 30 206 229 0
Fax: +49 30 206 229 12

E-mail: info@hypzert.de

Brief History & Role

See chronicle attached.

Chronicle (54 KB)

Business Objectives

The business objectives of the HypZert GmbH are:

* Support and preservation of high quality and professionalism in the area of market and mortgage valuation as well as chances and risk analysis of property

* Documentation of the assessment competence of the real estate valuers active for the financial management in public

* Support of the independence of the mortgage lending value

* European-wide recognition of the certification activities of the HypZert GmbH

For the reaching of our aims we have undertaken the following measures:

* Certification possibilities for real estate valuers according to the requirements of the world norm ISO/IEC 17024

* Accreditation of the certification areas by national and international companies

* Construction and care of a comprehensive national and international network within the real estate assessment

Certification Brochure (751 KB)

Organisation

Shareholders:

* Bundesverband der Deutschen Volksbanken und
Raiffeisenbanken e. V.
* Bundesverband der deutschen Banken e. V.
* Bundesverband Öffentlicher Banken Deutschlands e. V.
* Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband e. V.
* Verband deutscher Pfandbriefbanken e. V.
* Verband der Privaten Bausparkassen e. V.

Board of examiners:

30 people, under them:
* Leader of the department of real estate assessment of
loan institutes
* Leader of committees of experts
* Publicly ordered and sworn in experts
* Members of the royal institution of Chartered
Surveyors
* Free experts

Membership

* Verband der akkreditierten Zertifizierungsgesellschaften
e. V. (VAZ)
* Gesellschaft für immobilienwirtschaftliche Forschung
e.V. (g.i.f.)
* World Association of Valuation Organisation (WAVO)
* Urban Land Institute (ULI)
* Fédération Internationale des Administrateurs de Biens
Conseils Immobiliers (FIABCI)

Companion

* Raad vor Accreditatie (RvA), Utrecht
* Deutscher Akkreditierungsrat (DAR)/Trägergemeinschaft
für Akkreditierung GmbH (TGA), Frankfurt
* DAP Deutsches Akkreditierungssystem Prüfwesen
GmbH, Berlin
* Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht, Bonn
* Appraisal Institute (AI), Chicago

Figures and facts

To be completed soon.

Publications

• Valuation according DCF-Method (German language)
• Valuation of Hotels (German language)
• Valuation of Retail Properties (German language)
• Valuation of Logistic Properties (German language)
• Valuation of Nursing Homes (German language)
• Valuation of Rehabilitation Clinics (German language)
• Valuation of Hospitals (German language)
• Energy Efficiency of Real Estates - a Main Aspect in Sustainability (German language)
• Sustainability of Real Estates and its Significance in Valuation (German language)