51 Auditors’ Fees

KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfergesellschaft was appointed as the auditor of the consolidated financial statements until the end of the 2022 fiscal year. Due to the mandatory legal rotation of the auditor required by law, a new auditor was appointed in the 2023 fiscal year. In the 2023 fiscal year, the Annual General Meeting elected PricewaterhouseCoopers GmbH (PwC) as the new auditor of the consolidated financial statements.

In the fiscal year, the following fees (including expenses and excluding VAT) have been recorded for the services rendered by the Group auditors PwC GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft and its network companies:

The fee paid for auditing services performed by PwC GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft relates to the audit of the consolidated financial statements and annual financial statements of Vonovia SE, as well as to various audits of annual financial statements and a review of the subsidiaries included in the consolidated financial statements. The consolidated interim financial statements were reviewed and the financial statements were audited in accordance with audit standard IDW PS 490.

The fees for other confirmation services comprise all confirmation services that are not services relating to the audit and are not used in the context of the audit. These mainly include reviews of reconciliations on the interest threshold based on audit standard IDW PS 900, audits pursuant to Section 16 of the of the Real Estate Agent and Commercial Contractor Regulation (MaBV), business audits pursuant to ISAE 3000 relating to the non-financial report, and various housing assistance reports and reports on the appropriation of loans granted by the German government-owned development bank KfW. Other confirmation services also include services associated with the issue of comfort letters and the issue of valuation certificates.