We are doubly proud: For the second time in a row, Handelsblatt has awarded us Best Consultants in the Real Estate sector in 2024. What a confirmation of our work! Thanks to all our clients and our strong team!

Ritterwald

Rethink efficiency

RITTERWALD advises the real estate sector across Europe on tomorrow’s challenges. We also support related industries in future-proofing their business.

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Do something meaningful: Create the future, shape people, enable change, never stop learning – at RITTERWALD.

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Restructuring

Stay in the Driver's Seat

We live in times of crisis, which can raise new challenges for companies in the real estate industry at any time. We support our clients in actively and successfully handling stress and turnaround situations.

Sustainability

Solutions for Future

Ecological, affordable housing, energy efficiency, healthy living environments, tenant and employee satisfaction – we are working towards optimal ESG performance in the real estate sector.

Energy sector

Energy transition!

Energy-efficient real estate, crisis-proof energy supply, ecological power generation: We are working on the biggest lever for a successful energy transition. After all, the building sector is still responsible for around one-third of CO2 emissions.

Sustainable Housing Label

Demonstrate your ESG credentials

Our SUSTAINABLE HOUSING LABEL helps socially responsible housing companies to demonstrate their positive impact – and open up the sector for impact investing.

About the label

Smart City

How do we want to live?

Our towns can get smarter: We advise companies in the housing and energy industries on the design and implementation of Smart City projects.

About us

RITTERWALD is an experienced and delivery-focused consultancy with offices in Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Amsterdam and London. We are experts in the real estate sector and partners to related industries, investors and companies in the financial sector.

Consulting for

Strategy

Seeking growth strategies or ways of positioning your business in related industries? We’ll help you optimize your value add by examining your specific projects and determining their potential.

Restructuring

We advise companies on strategic, operational and financial restructuring. We support our clients to the point of successful turnaround with all the right measures to get through a profit or liquidity crisis.

Organization

We create good organizational structures, optimize corporate processes and integrate digital processes. We analyze corporate structures, identify problems and deliver agreed improvements.

Digital Solutions

The digitalization of basic and supporting business processes holds great potential for added value and efficiency. We optimize processes and advise on the implementation of digital solutions.

Transaction Support

We advise on strategic reorganization, financial optimization, financing and the acquisition or sale of companies or separate assets.

Implementation Support

When projects threaten to overload our clients’ capacity, we’ll take over all project organization and tracking responsibilities – and we’re only happy when we’ve delivered measurable success.

Change Management

When companies change, there is also a change in what’s required of team members and leaders. We advise and support companies through transformation – helping to turn changes into success stories.

Smart City is all about innovation. Our goal is to meet the challenges facing urban areas with smart technology solutions. Major efforts are also required in new and affordable housing delivery.

Sustainability

Sustainable business is our fundamental goal in all we do. We have developed a label aimed at helping socially and environmentally responsible real estate companies find investors.

New

February 25, 2026

RITTERWALD and HYSTAKE lease 900 square metres of office space in P1 in Berlin

RITTERWALD Management Consulting and its affiliated investment boutique HYSTAKE Investment Partners are expected to move into new office space in the tower section of the P1 project at Passauer Straße 1 in City West in December 2026. (Visualisation: © Alt/Shift)

January 22, 2026

Dr Stefan Gloßner joined the RITTERWALD management team as an associate partner at the beginning of the year.

With Dr Gloßner on board, RITTERWALD is expanding its expertise in consulting, particularly in portfolio and fund management for real estate companies.

November 05, 2025 — Article

Limited Assurance of Sustainability Reports as Step Towards Audited Non-Financial Reporting

To address the impending need for demonstrating assured sustainability data, RITTERWALD has developed an external assessment of the Sustainability Reports for Social Housing. This limited assurance anticipates the non-financial IFRS reporting requirements by providing a baseline to improve the quality of reporting.

August 11, 2025

RITTERWALD advises HögforsGST on strategic partnership with Oventrop

Berlin, 11 August 2025 – Management consultancy RITTERWALD advised and supported HögforsGST, a portfolio company of Intera Partners, on its strategic partnership with the Oventrop Group. As part of the transaction, Finnish heating network specialist HögforsGST is acquiring 100% of Oventrop subsidiary Oventrop Energy & Network (formerly Kring), based in Haiger. In return, the Oventrop Group will become a shareholder in HögforsGST

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Sustainability

Sustainability Reporting in the Housing Industry

Sustainability is the most important megatrend of our times, which also makes it the top subject on the agenda for the real estate industry. RITTERWALD took a closer look at the sustainability reports published by the top 50 companies in the German housing sector.

Article

What Comes After the Boom?

Thanks to the continuing boom in the country’s real estate sector, Germany’s residential property companies—once considered dull and outdated—are now seen as a stable source of returns with potential for growth. But what if the market cools down?

Study

Institutional investments in social and affordable housing in Europe

RITTERWALD has undergone a study to not only provide insights on the French, Dutch and German markets respectively, but also to understand how in these regulated markets, the role of institutional investors is being affected by the public debate.

Study

Bewegung im Messdienst-Markt

Article

Digitization

Digitization in the Real Estate Sector – How Residential Real Estate Companies Can Identify New Potential

What does digitization actually mean? Which parts of the real estate sector does it affect and what opportunities does it offer for the real estate sector? We’ll bring you up to date in this article.

Article

Asset Deals as an Option for Successful Inorganic Growth in the Property Management Market

Many small companies in the property management business pursue a strategy of growth through the acquisition of other companies in a bid to strengthen their market position. Besides the traditional share deals, another opportunity to leverage synergies with fast growth can be found in asset deals, where individual assets and contracts are negotiated.

All RITTERWALD clients are premium clients in our view.
We appreciate the time we spend with them and we can always be reached directly and personally – beyond the end of a successfully completed project.
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