Eurohypo has been operating in Austria since 1995. Despite the extremely competitive environment, we have succeeded in holding our own alongside the major Austrian commercial banks in real-estate business. Our clients are domestic and international institutional investors, closed and open real-estate funds, real-estate investment companies and real-estate developers. With a few exceptions, we only finance shopping centres and office blocks in Austria.

Because of excessive demand, yields have been falling for years and the product range is extremely limited. In the last two years, even properties in second-class locations have sold relatively rapidly. Companies frequently exploit the rapid rise in real-estate prices to dispose of parts of their assets at a profit via sale-and-leaseback agreements and increase their liquidity.

Traditionally, Vienna is the centre of the real-estate scene in Austria, but the regional capitals such as Graz, Linz, Salzburg and Klagenfurt also offer opportunities for investment. Smaller regional centres too have recently attracted the attention of international investors.

Despite extreme competitive pressures, the market is highly attractive to investors and financiers because of its stability. Because of Vienna’s role as a gateway to the East, we act as the first point of contact for a large number of Austrian companies that are investing and developing in neighbouring, eastern European countries in addition to our traditional role as a provider of credit. Our staff in Vienna also act as a centre of competence for the market in Slovenia an