What Gemeinnützige Wohnungsbaugenossenschaft does

Gemeinnützige Wohnungsbaugenossenschaft für Stadt und Kreis Düren eG is a registered cooperative (Genossenschaft) under German law, founded in 1913 and headquartered in Düren, North Rhine-Westphalia. It provides affordable rental housing exclusively to its ~1,928 members across a portfolio of 251 buildings and 1,189 apartments in Düren and surrounding districts, offering 1- to 5-room units in both free-financed and publicly subsidized (WBS) categories. Operations are delegated to Dürener Bauverein AG, which shares its staff and management systems with the cooperative.

Its core product is cooperative housing (Genossenschaftswohnungen) priced between roughly €410 and €609 per month total rent, supplemented by a €205 membership share and €25 entry fee, a 3-month cold-rent security deposit, and ancillary revenue from 211 garages, 149 parking spaces, 1 commercial unit, and a Deutsche Telekom cable-TV framework agreement. Distribution is direct-to-consumer via the cooperative's own Wohnungsbörse website and Vorstand-led allocation. Recent product extensions include the MiVivo digital tenant app (March 2025) and the Mieterstrom photovoltaic tenant-electricity scheme at Blumenthalstraße (June 2023, 78% tenant participation).

The business model is a stable, subscription-like recurring rental cash flow governed by non-profit cooperative principles rather than profit maximization. Strategic priorities visible in the record are: (i) renewal and expansion of the housing stock to EH-40 energy standard, anchored by the 28-unit Viandener Straße new-build (delivery January 2027) with Goldbeck GmbH as general contractor; (ii) sustainability and operating-cost reduction via rooftop PV and Mieterstrom; and (iii) digitization of tenant services through MiVivo, including the AI-assisted 'Lio' digital assistant. Governance combines a Vorstand, an Aufsichtsrat with Stadt Düren representation, statutory audit by VdW Rheinland-Westfalen, and a public-housing mandate administered jointly with Kreis Düren.

Name

Gemeinnützige Wohnungsbaugenossenschaft

Legal name

Gemeinnützige Wohnungsbaugenossenschaft für Stadt und Kreis Düren eG

Website

https://wohnungsbaugenossenschaft-dn.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1913

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Gemeinnützige Wohnungsbaugenossenschaft für Stadt und Kreis Düren eG is a 1913-founded German housing cooperative providing affordable rental apartments exclusively to its ~1,928 members across 251 buildings and 1,189 units in Düren and surrounding districts.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cooperative Housing

SIC

Services-To Dwellings & Other Buildings (7340)

akta.pro primary industry

Cooperative (Co-op) Housing Association Management (BPAJAHAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Mixed-Use Community Association Management (BPAJAHAF)

Keywords

• Affordable rental housing
• Cooperative housing management
• Residential property rental
• Public subsidized housing
• Tenant electricity services

Headquarters

HQ city

Düren

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Infrastructure, Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Residential Rental Income: The primary revenue stream is monthly rental income from 1,189 apartments across 251 buildings. Rents range from approximately €410 to €609 per month (total rent including operating cost prepayments). Both free-financed and publicly subsidized (WBS) apartments are offered. Rental income is recurring and stable, typical of housing cooperatives.
2. Membership Shares and Entry Fees: One-time membership share of €205.00 and entry fee of €25.00 (total €230.00) paid prior to signing a lease. Security deposit (Kaution) of 3 months' cold rent, typically payable in 3 monthly installments. These are one-time fees associated with new tenancy setup.
3. Ancillary Services: Additional revenue from garages (€211 garages, 5 Einstellplätze, 149 Stellplätze), commercial units (1 commercial unit), and rental of TG-Einstellboxen (underground parking boxes). Telekom TV/internet service referral through cable infrastructure (€8.79/month per tenant).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The cooperative provides affordable rental housing to its members across 251 buildings containing 1,189 apartments in Düren and surrounding districts of Germany. The portfolio includes 1- to 5-room apartments in both free-financed and publicly subsidized (WBS) categories. Ancillary services include garages, parking spaces, the MiVivo digital tenant app, and a Mieterstrom (tenant electricity) photovoltaic program in partnership with Stadtwerke Düren.

Product overview

The Gemeinnützige Wohnungsbaugenossenschaft is a housing cooperative providing affordable rental housing exclusively to its members. Its core offering is Genossenschaftswohnungen (cooperative apartments) across 251 buildings with 1,189 apartments in Düren and surrounding districts. The portfolio includes 1-5 room apartments ranging from older buildings to newly constructed and fully modernized units, both publicly subsidized and free-market. The cooperative has expanded into digital tenant services with the MiVivo app, launched in March 2025, which provides document access, damage reporting, and AI-assisted support. Energy initiatives include the Mieterstrom tenant electricity program utilizing photovoltaic installations with energy supplied through Stadtwerke Düren. Security services are enhanced through the "Zuhause sicher" police partnership program.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• MiVivo: Digital tenant app launched March 2025, providing tenants access to documents, certificate requests, damage reporting, and exclusive offers. Features a digital assistant named 'Lio'.

Products and services

• Cooperative Rental Housing (Genossenschaftswohnungen) Affordable rental apartments (1- to 5-room units) offered exclusively to members of the cooperative, available in both free-financed and publicly subsidized (WBS) categories. Current portfolio comprises 1,189 apartments in 251 buildings across Düren city center, Düren-Ost, Düren-Süd, Grüngürtel, Birkesdorf, and Rölsdorf.
• MiVivo Tenant App Digital tenant service application for cooperative members, providing access to rental documents, damage reporting, certificate requests, exclusive marketplace offers, and push notifications. Includes an AI-powered digital assistant named 'Lio'. Available on iOS and Android.
• Mieterstrom (Tenant Electricity) Program Photovoltaic-based tenant electricity scheme enabling residents to purchase locally generated solar power at reduced rates. Currently operational in Blumenthalstraße with 343 PV modules generating approximately 133,800 kWh annually, saving around 75 tonnes of CO2 per year.
• Garages and Parking Spaces Ancillary rental offerings including 211 garages, 5 Einstellplätze, 149 Stellplätze (outdoor parking), and TG-Einstellboxen (underground parking boxes) for tenants and external customers.
• Viandener Straße New Construction (28 publicly subsidized apartments) 28 new publicly subsidized apartments (58-79 m²) under construction at Viandener Straße 17/19 in Düren-Ost, built to EH-40 energy efficiency standard with air-source heat pumps. Rents expected at €6.65–€7.70/m².

Quantifiable outcome

• ~78% tenant participation rate in Mieterstrom PV electricity scheme (75 of 96 connected apartments)
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and supporting.

• Stadt Düren (Municipal Government)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025City of Düren provides land use approvals, planning permissions, and coordinates with various municipal offices for new construction projects. The Aufsichtsrat (supervisory board) of the cooperative includes city representatives. Stadt Düren also serves as the Bewilligungsbehörde (approving authority) for public housing subsidies. The city helps manage housing applicants and refers citizens to the cooperative's subsidized units.
• Polizei NRW DürensupportingStrategic or Co-development Partner · 27 October 2023Joint 'Zuhause sicher' (Safe at Home) campaign with Polizei NRW Düren focused on burglary prevention and fire safety. Symbolic plaque ceremonies held for newly built properties. Since 2016, 107 apartments of the cooperative have received the security seal. The partnership provides tenants with enhanced safety awareness and police-certified security standards.
• Stadtwerke DürencoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 June 2023Stadtwerke Düren is the energy partner for the Mieterstrom (tenant electricity) project at Blumenthalstraße. They provide the electricity supply infrastructure, manage the dual-price billing (PV-generated electricity at reduced rate + grid-supplied electricity), and administer the Mieterstrom tariffs for participating tenants. The partnership enables tenants to receive green electricity directly from the cooperative's rooftop PV installations at preferential rates.
• Leitungspartner (Infrastructure Partners)supportingImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 1 June 2023Supporting partners for the Mieterstrom project handle the electrical infrastructure connections and grid integration for the PV installations. Störungsstelle available at 0800/4865111.
• Deutsche Telekom GmbHsupportingChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorFramework agreement for cable TV supply. Tenants receive TV services at €8.79/month through a negotiated group rate. The cooperative bundles this service offering for its tenants. Telekom also provides a dedicated Mietershop portal and customer service hotline (0800 33 55 222) for tenants.
• Goldbeck GmbHcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerGeneral contractor (Generalunternehmer) for the Viandener Straße new construction project (28 apartments, ~2,000 m², EH-40 standard, delivery January 2027). Goldbeck uses systematized prefabricated construction with elements pre-made in their own factories and assembled on-site for speed, economy, and quality. The partnership is critical to the cooperative's largest new construction project in years.
• Kreis Düren (District Administration)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerKreis Düren serves as the Bewilligungsbehörde (granting authority) for publicly subsidized housing funds. They set the cost-of-housing limits (Richtwerte) used to determine eligibility for state benefit recipients. They also coordinate housing policy for the wider district.
• VdW Verband der Wohnungs- und Immobilienwirtschaft Rheinland-WestfalensupportingOthersThe designated auditing body for the cooperative as required by statute. The VdW is the housing and real estate industry association for North Rhine-Westphalia. Provides economic auditing services to the cooperative.
• Dürener Bauverein AGcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe cooperative has no own employees and has delegated all business operations to Dürener Bauverein AG since 1990. All staff listed on the cooperative's team page are employees of Dürener Bauverein AG. The Bauverein also manages its own housing stock separately. Both organizations share personnel, management systems, and infrastructure. The CEO of Dürener Bauverein AG (Dagmar Runge) participates in cooperative events. The two organizations share the Mieter-App MiVivo, the Mieterfibel, and coordinated safety campaigns.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves10 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• TAG Immobilien AG: German residential landlord with ~85,000 units across multiple regions, focused on affordable and mid-market rental housing — a value proposition closely aligned with the cooperative's affordable-housing focus, though at greater scale and with a listed-company, capital-markets-driven operating model.
• Grand City Properties S.A. German-focused residential real estate company (~60,000+ units) with concentration in urban and metropolitan markets. Comparable tenant-acquisition model and rental-housing offering, but operates as a publicly listed REIT with growth-driven strategy rather than a non-profit cooperative.
• LEG Immobilien SE: Major German residential landlord (~166,000 apartments), primarily in NRW. Direct geographic overlap with the cooperative's Düren/Kreis Düren catchment and similar apartment-rental business model, but operates at a vastly larger, listed-company scale.
• Vonovia SE: Germany's largest residential landlord (~540,000+ apartments) including the merged Deutsche Wohnen portfolio. Comparable in core offering (rental housing at scale) but operates nationally as a publicly listed, for-profit entity, whereas the cooperative is non-profit, locally focused, and member-owned.
• Deutsche Wohnen SE: Major German residential real estate company (now majority-owned by Vonovia but retaining a distinct brand). Operates comparable urban rental housing with similar tenant-management services, though at metropolitan scale rather than the cooperative's mid-sized city footprint.

Others

• Stadtwerke Düren GmbH: Municipal utility partner of the cooperative for the Mieterstrom tenant-electricity project at Blumenthalstraße. Not a direct competitor but a strategic infrastructure counterpart whose tariffs, grid integration, and energy-supply terms directly shape the economics of the cooperative's sustainability offering.
• VdW Verband der Wohnungs- und Immobilienwirtschaft Rheinland-Westfalen: Statutory auditing and industry association for housing cooperatives and real estate companies in NRW, of which the subject cooperative is a member. Comparable only as an industry counterpart — not a competitor but the umbrella body that sets audit, governance, and operational standards applicable to all member Wohnungsbaugenossenschaften.

Direct peers

• Dürener Bauverein AG: The cooperative shares all staff, management systems (including the MiVivo tenant app), and infrastructure with Dürener Bauverein AG, which manages its own parallel housing stock in the same geography. It is the closest operational and structural peer by virtue of its management-services relationship and shared tenant-facing platforms.
• Baugenossenschaft Köln-Sülz eG: Regional German housing cooperative operating under the same Genossenschaft legal structure and member-share model, providing affordable rental housing in the Cologne region. Directly comparable in cooperative governance, non-profit mission, and apartment-portfolio operating model, though in a different urban market.
• Wohnungsgenossenschaft 'Eigenheim' eG: Local/regional German housing cooperative providing affordable rental housing to members under the same Genossenschaft legal form. Operates under the same cooperative governance, member-share model, and non-profit mandate, making it directly comparable despite likely smaller scale than the subject company.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

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Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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