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For institutional and private investors, student housing is a real estate asset class in its own right with very attractive investment attributes. In contrast to Great Britain, the USA or Australia, however, Germany does not have a private, professional, institutional supplier-based market for student housing. The German market offers substantial potential in this real estate segment, due especially to the growing number of freshman students in the coming years. Success stories, such as that of the Unite Group in Great Britain serve to demonstrate these possibilities. In England, student housing has been long established in the real estate market and with investors as a niche product and stand-alone asset class. YOUNIQ AG has established itself as the market leader by a wide margin in this asset class and will continue to assert this successful market position.

A multitude of college locations facilitates long-term sustained investments in student housing facilities, owing to a very high demand for student apartments and a generally high - and increasing - level of rent. The minimisation of production and operating costs is a prerequisite for a comparatively high ongoing distribution of dividends. YOUNIQ AG accomplishes this through good market contacts in the acquisition of sites and existing properties, control of construction costs through strict project management, as well as outstanding purchasing management, for example with respect to equipment (bathrooms, kitchens, furnishings etc.) and, not least of all, by means of efficient ongoing management of the properties.

Benefits of the asset type, "Student Housing":

• Stable cash flows through economy-independent demand
• Secure cash flows through strong diversification, due to the wide tenant base
• Low risk of vacancy, due to the acute and increasing shortage in the housing supply for students; higher demand and lower fluctuation rates, due to semester-based letting