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Structure

The most important decision-making body of ZIA is the annual general meeting. You can find out how ZIA works during the year below.
Executive Board

The Executive Board is responsible for the management of the Association. The Executive Board works in an honorary capacity and has the option of appointing a management. The members of the Executive Board are also members of the Presidium. (More information in German)

Members of the Executive Board

  • Iris Schöberl, ZIA President, Deputy Chairwoman of the Trading Committee, BMO Real Estate Partners, Managing Director Germany & Head of Institutional Client
  • Rolf Buch, Vice President and Committee Chairman Housing, Vonovia SE, Chairman of the Management Board
  • Jan-Hendrik Goldbeck, Vice President, Goldbeck GmbH, Managing Partner
  • Ulrich Höller, Vice President, ABG Real Estate Group, Managing Partner
  • Dr. Jochen Keysberg, Vice President, Apleona GmbH, CEO
  • Annette Kröger, Allianz Real Estate North & Central Europe, CEO
  • Jochen Schenk, Vice President and Treasurer, Real I.S. AG, Gesellschaft für Immobilien Assetmanagement, Board of Directors
  • Andreas Engelhardt, Vice President, CEO and Managing Partner, Schüco International KG
  • Honorary Chairman: Dr. Eckart John von Freyend, Hamborner REIT AG, Honorary Chairman of the Supervisory Board
  • Honorary Chairman: Dr. Andreas Mattner, Hamboner REIT AG, Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Presidium

The Executive Committee steers the work of ZIA and initiates committees and working groups on the individual topics. (More information in German)

Committees

The content-related work of the ZIA takes place in committees, which are staffed with a total of over 1.000 honorary representatives of the ZIA members. The resolutions and recommendations of the committees form the basis of the association’s work. (More information in German)

  • Accounting and Valuation Committee
    This committee is dedicated to the often controversial issues of accounting and valuation of real estate assets and makes recommendations to clarify the existing problems.
  • Building Committee
    The committee offers the opportunity to discuss current building topics, in particular innovative and experimental building, and makes the knowledge of the building members available to other ZIA committees.
  • Corporate Real Estate Committee
    The committee deals with the future of corporate real estate and contributes to raising public awareness about the strategic necessity of real estate management and planning for the German economy.
  • Corporate Social Responsibility Committee
    The committee deals with the social responsibility of the real estate industry and sustainable and value-oriented corporate management.
  • Digitization Committee
    The committee covers all aspects of digitization in the real estate industry and addresses the associated challenges. It develops approaches to solutions for the real estate industry and thus promotes the competitiveness of companies.
  • Energy and Building Technology Committee
    The work of this committee focuses on energy and climate-relevant laws and regulations for the building sector and their practical implementation.
  • Facility Management Committee
    This committee is dedicated to the direct and indirect issues of facility management and facilitates cross-sector exchange with project developers and CRE, particularly on building digitisation, automation, BIM and ESG.
  • Financing Committee
    This committee examines the impact of regulatory projects on real estate-related banking, insurance and fund companies.
  • Healthcare Property Committee
    This committee deals with the challenges arising from demographic developments in Germany. The focus is on all types of use within the health, care and social real estate sectors.
  • Hotel Property Committee
    This committee deals with the current challenges surrounding the asset class of hotel real estate. This includes, among other things, regulatory framework conditions as well as possibilities for improving hotel financing.
  • Human Resources Committee
    The committee’s work focuses on topics of human resources management in the real estate industry as well as improving the transfer of knowledge between companies, universities, institutes and associations.
  • Investment Capital Committee
    The committee deals with all relevant topics of regulation, market development and standard setting in the area of capital and asset investments. The focus is particularly on strategic and general market and industry topics.
  • Legal Affairs Committee
    The topic of law is dealt with in this committee in many different ways. Focal points include tenancy law, investor protection, brokerage law and data protection and the associated effects on the real estate industry.
  • Logistics Property Committee
    After the committee succeeded in raising the economic potential of logistics real estate, strengthening its importance in public perception and optimising it as an asset class by increasing transparency and improving the data situation, the focus is now on integrating the aspects of climate protection, digitalisation and changing mobility and consumer behaviour.
  • Marketing and Public Relations Committee
    This committee advises on appropriate communication strategies to implement Board and Executive Committee resolutions. The aim is to improve the image and perception of ZIA and the real estate industry in general.
  • Office Property Committee
    The committee discusses how the uncertain regulatory environment in office real estate can be improved for tenants, landlords and investors and how the high need for innovation in this segment can be supported in a targeted manner.
  • Residential Property Committee
    This committee deals with the numerous topics related to the asset class of residential real estate. These include affordable housing and construction, modern urban development, demographic change, building culture and the overall regulatory framework for this asset class.
  • Retail Property Committee
    The committee deals with current developments in city centres and retail-relevant city locations from the perspective of retailers and investors.
  • Tax Law Committee
    The work of this committee focuses on tax issues relevant to the real estate industry. The capital market-oriented real estate industry in particular is repeatedly affected by short-term and momentous changes in tax law.
  • Transparency and Benchmarking Committee
    The transparency of the German real estate market is still lower than in other countries such as the USA or Great Britain. The committee analyses the existing deficits and develops proposals for solutions.
  • Urban Development Committee
    The Urban Development Committee is committed to sustainable urban development, which is oriented towards climate protection and energy saving goals and focuses on consistent inner development.
Office

Around 40 employees work in the ZIA’s offices and prepare the work of the committees and the passing of resolutions. (More information in German)

ZIA Municipal Council

The ZIA Municipal Council supports and develops guidelines and standards for cooperation between municipalities and the real estate industry. Among other things, the body discusses political and legislative initiatives as well as quality components and gives ZIA recommendations for the association’s work. In return, the Municipal Council enables municipal decision-makers to experience and discuss the real estate industry’s point of view at first hand. The Municipal Council will strengthen the exchange between municipal representatives and the real estate industry. (More information in German)

Scientific Advisory Council

The Scientific Advisory Board advises the Board of Directors and the management of ZIA in full independence and on a voluntary basis on all topics and challenges relating to the real estate industry. (More information in German)

ZIA ESG Council

The ZIA Sustainability Council is responsible for the strategic management of ZIA’s sustainability policy. It deals with the topic of sustainability in all its breadth and diversity in a theoretically sound manner from a practical perspective and primarily considers aspects relevant to corporate management. (More information in German)

Council of Real Estate Experts

Since autumn 2002, the „Rat der Immobilienweisen“ (Council of Real Estate Experts) has been providing more transparency on the real estate markets with its spring forecasts. The data on gross production value, employees and real estate holdings, which was collected for the first time at that time, was also intended to raise public awareness of the real estate industry as one of the most important economic sectors in Germany. (More information in German)

Innovation Think Tank

The Innovation Think Tank (ITT) provides impulses for the entire real estate industry. The core objective of the ITT is the systemic networking of all relevant actors and the committees of ZIA. The focus is on the transfer of knowledge for the development of recommendations for action and the steering of the topic area of innovations. In this way, the ITT makes a significant contribution to more social, ecological and economic sustainability in all living spaces. (More information in German)

Task Force Energy

The energy turnaround is one of the core goals of the real estate industry, but it can only succeed with measures that make economic sense and are open to technology. For this reason, ZIA and its Task Force Energy have developed proposals for the real estate industry to achieve climate policy goals and presented the position paper „Real Estate Industry & Energy“. It deals with the energy policy of the European Union, the federal government and the states with regard to real estate. (More information in German)

Contact

Daniel Bolder

Head of European Office Brussels