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EQS-News: Gateway Real Estate AG / Key word(s): Statement/Real Estate
Background to BaFin's announcement of April 29, 2024 on the audit order for the half-year financial report 2023 of
Gateway Real Estate AG
2024-05-06 / 19:21 CET/CEST
The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.
Background to BaFin's announcement of April 29, 2024 on the audit order for the half-year financial report 2023 of
Gateway Real Estate AG

Berlin, May 06, 2024. On April 29, 2024, BaFin published an announcement on the audit of the condensed financial
statements as of June 30, 2023 and the associated interim management report of Gateway Real Estate AG (the "Company" -
WKN A0JJTG / ISIN DE000A0JJTG7). The subject of the audit is whether a property valued at around EUR 141.5 million as
of June 30, 2023 may have been materially overvalued.
The background to the audit is that the company commissioned a new valuation report in the fourth quarter of 2023 at
the request of the financing partner in connection with the reorganization of the current financing for its project
development in Augsburg. On the basis of a new valuation procedure, the value of this property was approximately EUR 42
million or 30% lower than the value previously reported in accordance with IAS 40 in the audited consolidated financial
statements as at December 31, 2022. In relation to the company's entire property portfolio, this corresponds to a
write-down of 3.6 %.
The company announced this devaluation immediately in an ad hoc announcement on November 23, 2023 and already disclosed
it in its interim statement as at September 30, 2023.
The project development site in Augsburg is currently used in part for commercial and industrial purposes and the
company intends to use it primarily for residential purposes. The company has been working on this together with the
City of Augsburg for more than three years. The rezoning was approved and the project development goal confirmed with a
draft resolution from the city planning office on September 18, 2023 and a city council resolution on October 19, 2023.
From an operational perspective, the company believes that project development in Augsburg remains on a positive path.
In the proceedings now initiated, BaFin is exclusively examining whether the impairment announced by the company and
made in its interim statement for the third quarter of 2023 should have already been made in the Group's half-year
financial report 2023. The company is convinced that it prepared the half-year financial report in accordance with the
rules, as there was no reason to recognize an impairment loss at that time. The company is cooperating fully with BaFin
in order to clarify the facts and assumes that the indication-based audit can be brought to an amicable conclusion in a
constructive and professional dialog.

Contact
Sven Annutsch
Hardenbergstr. 28a
10623 Berlin
T +49 (0) 30 40 363 47 - 0
F +49 (0) 30 40 363 47 99
E-Mail: sven.annutsch@gateway-re.de
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Language:     English 
Company:      Gateway Real Estate AG 

Hardenbergstraße 28a
10623 Berlin
Germany

Phone:        +49 (0) 30 40 363 47 - 0 
Fax:          +49 (0) 30 40 363 47 99 
E-mail:       info@gateway-re.de 
Internet:     www.gateway-re.de 
ISIN:         DE000A0JJTG7 
WKN:          A0JJTG 
Listed:       Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, 

Munich, Stuttgart, Tradegate Exchange
EQS News ID: 1896799

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