Munich, 09 July 2025 – KINGSTONE Real Estate, an investment manager domiciled in Munich, has expanded its Advisory Board as of 1 July 2025 by adding Harald Kraus, a long-term member of the management board of Sparkasse Rosenheim-Bad Aibling. On the Advisory Board, he will be responsible for the “Banks and Financial Service Providers” segment.

Kraus brings more than four decades of experience in banking and finance to the job. As a member of the Management Board of Sparkasse Rosenheim-Bad Aibling since 2014, he has been responsible for the entire commercial loan division, international business, and, as Head of Trading, the proprietary trading as well as the strategic alignment and yield optimization of the bank’s proprietary investments across various asset classes. Mr. Kraus retired as scheduled on June 30, 2025, and will work as an independent consultant in the future. In addition, Harald Kraus served for many years as a supervisory board member, among others, at Bayerische Landesbrandversicherung AG, Bayerischer Versicherungsverband, and the housing association of the district of Rosenheim.

“With Harald Kraus, we won a prominent member of the banking sector with a known track record for our Advisory Board who has been our business partner for many years. Given his extensive expertise with regard to the interests of institutional investors and to the requirements of real estate financing in a volatile market environment, he will contribute valuable input to this panel of experts,” said Dr. Tim Schomberg, the CEO and co-founder of KINGSTONE Real Estate.

Harald Kraus added: “Between my stints with various savings banks in Southern Germany, I served on the senior management level of Bio-Gate AG, a health technology vendor, for almost nine years. One of my jobs as CFO was to prepare and execute the company’s initial public offering. I’m therefore in the fortunate position to bring the experiences and angles of both sides – bank and business – to the table as I join the Advisory Board of KINGSTONE Real Estate.”

As it is, more than 20 regional banks, especially savings banks and cooperative banks, already count among the investors and clients of KINGSTONE Real Estate. Services provided by the investment manager include, without being limited to, the structuring and managing of proprietary investments in the real estate sector. With the appointment of Harald Kraus, the company strengthens its strategic orientation in this core segment.

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About KINGSTONE Real Estate

KINGSTONE Real Estate is an independent family-run investment manager domiciled in Munich and specialised in real estate investments in the DACH region, in Poland and in the Benelux countries. With our local teams, we have approximately EUR 1 billion in real estate assets under management.

Our focus is on structuring and managing bespoke investment solutions. Ranging from transactions to asset management and all the way to developments, our spectrum of deliverables is aimed at institutional and private investors, including insurance companies, pension funds, banks, foundations and family offices, among others.

As an entrepreneurial business, we put a premium on quality, transparency and a trust-based long-term partnerships with our business partners.

For more information, go to: www.kingstone-re.com

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