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.

Career

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

Jobs at RITTERWALD

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 & Urban Development

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.

Certified Sustainable Housing Label

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July 04, 2022

Climate Resilient Homes and Communities for Europe

Ad Hereijgers, Director Business Development at RITTERWALD, will be speaking about the financial aspects of residential building decarbonisation at the EBZ/EFL Summer School taking place in Bochum, Germany, from 4–7 July 2022.

June 28, 2022

RITTERWALD's Sustainable Housing Outlook

Update on developments in the West European social and affordable housing industry: We are happy to share the first edition of RITTERWALD’s Sustainable Housing Outlook – published on the occasion of the European Federation for Living (EFL) conference Berlin in June 2022.

May 12, 2022 — Article

Lessons on regeneration and levelling up from the Netherlands

Levelling up is a condition for a nation’s wellbeing and is key to building sustainable communities for the future. RITTERWALD directors Austen Reid and Ad Hereijgers provide tips on how levelling up can work to create sustainable urban regeneration.

November 11, 2021

Leading property group becomes first in UK to align ESG reporting with European sustainability certification

Places for People has become the first UK placemaking and property company to align its environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting with the Certified Sustainable Housing Label.

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Study

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?

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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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