18 Other Operating Expenses
Other Operating Expenses
in € million | 2022 (adjusted) | 2023 | |||
Consultants’ and auditors’ fees | 84.8 | 100.7 | |||
Vehicle and traveling costs | 38.4 | 39.6 | |||
Advertising costs | 33.0 | 28.9 | |||
Communication costs and work equipment | 27.4 | 25.5 | |||
Rents, leases and ground rents | 19.5 | 23.1 | |||
Impairment losses on real estate inventories | 21.6 | ||||
Additions to provisions | 7.8 | 19.7 | |||
Losses and reimbursements of ancillary costs | 2.6 | 14.7 | |||
Administrative services | 15.1 | 14.1 | |||
Non-capitalizable expenses from real estate development | 13.1 | 13.0 | |||
Unrecognized insured losses | 10.5 | 10.5 | |||
Other taxes | 0.7 | 9.3 | |||
Expenses from previous years | 5.1 | 7.8 | |||
Seminar fees | 5.8 | 6.8 | |||
Other contribution and fees | 5.1 | 6.6 | |||
Impairment losses on receivables | 2.5 | 6.0 | |||
Sales incidentals | 4.0 | 5.8 | |||
Costs of sale associated with real estate inventories | 4.8 | 4.9 | |||
Legal and notary costs | 2.4 | 3.7 | |||
Miscellaneous | 97.9 | 71.7 | |||
380.5 | 434.0 | ||||
As the biggest item, miscellaneous included expenses for process adjustments and standardization as part of the integration of Deutsche Wohnen in the amount of € 21.4 million (2022: € 37.8 million), as well as a large number of smaller individual items.