Funke acquires majority stake in Musterhaus.net

The media company intends to use the investment to boost its digital growth.

Essen-based Funke Mediengruppe is acquiring 75.1 percent of the company shares - and therefore a majority stake - in Musterhaus.net. The Lüneburg-based company operates Germany's largest independent house building portal. The two managing partners Albert Schwarzmeier and Patryk Moretto will remain on board after the Funke investment.

"With the takeover, we are further accelerating our digital growth course," says Funke Managing Director Christoph Rüth. "We are not only consistently expanding our digital journalistic offerings - as we recently did with the acquisition of gofeminin.de - but are also strengthening our other growth drivers." Funke's Head of Digital Stephan Thurm adds: "The team and shareholders of Musterhaus.net have built up an enormously fast-growing and profitable company in recent years, which fits in perfectly with our buy-and-build investment strategy."

Musterhaus.net was founded in 2005 by Sebastian Dziwisch from Lüneburg. The platform has 3.8 million visitors a year and more than 350 house building companies. The core of the business is the mediation of house building providers to end customers. The portal also offers additional comparative offers from the home financing, kitchen and garage sectors. Since its foundation, Musterhaus.net has grown profitably and entirely without external capital. As recently as December 2021, the platform referred 11,500 prospective housebuilders within one month.