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THE INTERNATIONAL PROPERTY SPECIALIST Roadshow Presentation December 2006

Key strategic statements 1 We focus on our core competence 2 We are more than a bank: We are a property specialist with a highly diversified revenue stream 3 We are not balance sheet driven 4 We are an international player 1

Shareholder Structure Aareal Holding Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbh 8.94% Bayerische Beamten Lebensversicherung a.g. 62,77% 37,23% 8.94% Schweizerische Lebensversicherungsund Rentenanstalt 6.68% Versorgungsanstalt des Bundes und der Länder 6.06% Bankhaus Lampe KG 5.52% Deutscher Ring Beteiligungs-Holding 1.36% Condor Lebensversicherung Free float Aareal Holding Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbh 2

3 Structured Property Financing

International presence 4

Continued new business growth mn 10000 8000 6000 4000 2000 4,957 +47.5% 7,313 Increase of new business volume by nearly 50% New business target of 7 bn in 2006 already achieved after 9 months New target for the full year: > 8 bn 81% of new business is international Highly diversified by region and object type 0 9M 2005 9M 2006 German International 5

New business by region Total new business 1.1.-30.9.2006: 7.3 bn BeNeLux UK North America France Spain 8% 10% Turkey 6% 3% 2% 2% 2% 1% 12% Switzerland 16% Asia/Pacific 19% Scandinavia 19% Germany Principle of one central head of all Nordic countries and branches has proved itself successful Similar introduction of: Head of CEE and Russia, Head of Asia and Head of North America Office in Helsinki in preparation Office in Shanghai planned CEE Italy 6

Property financing portfolio by region Total portfolio 30.9.2006: 22.2 bn Others Spain UK North America 3% 4% 4% 5% CEE 6% France 6% 6% BeNeLux 12% 14% 40% Germany German portfolio reduced to 40% of total portfolio (down from 53% 01.01.2005) Reduction of German portfolio and increase of international portfolio further optimises the regional diversification of the back book Italy Scandinavia 7

Property financing portfolio by industry Total portfolio 30.9.2006: 22.2 bn Others Residential (let) 20% 4% 27% Office Residential (owner-occupied) 15% 6% 13% 15% Retail Logistics Hotel 8

Target reduction of our NPL portfolio outperformed 3000 10.7% % NPL share in total portfolio 12% 2500 2.85 8.5% 10% 2000 8% 2.09 1500 6% 1000 3.1% Target 06: 1.0 4% 500 < 0.7 2% 0 31.12.2004 31.12.2005 21.09.2006 NPL portfolio ( bn) 0% 9

10 Consulting / Services

Consulting/Services major activities Aareal Bank Consulting/Services Segment Consulting and Services for the institutional housing sector Other Services Market-leading European IT-system house for the management of residential and commercial property Key client base: Large size property owners / managers 8mn units managed with Aareon s property management softwares Institutional Housing Industry Department and First Financial Solutions Market-leading integrated payment transaction systems for real estate companies Payment transaction and special accounts for over 7mn units ImmoScout24 Financial investment ibs Financial investment BauGrund Management of extensive property and trust assets 11

Services provided to the Institutional Housing Sector Requirements of a typical property management company Strategic Management Planning, Controlling, Steering Portfolio Management Technical Construction Management New Developments Refurbishments Maintenance and Repair Administrational Management Flat Management Tenant Management Financial Management Creditor and Debtor Management Cash Management Investment Financing IT Solutions Integrated Payment Solutions 12

Institutional Housing Sector: Interdependence Aareon and Aareal Bank Tenants Our Customers Payment streams (rents, utility bills etc.) Management of extensive property holdings with highly automated ERP systems (e.g.: Blue Eagle, GES, wodis) Payment streams (rents, utility bills etc.) Accounts of the integrated payment transaction payment system house bank for the institutional housing sector Fully automatic handling of payment transactions generates more than 4 billion highly stable deposits IT-Systems (with consulting and add-on services) generate stable fee income with low equity engagement 13

Institutional housing sector: Integral element of group strategy 1. Customer Deposits 2. Earnings Stability 3. Group RoE Highly stable customer deposits without expensive branch network ~ 1.5 bn stable current account money ~ 3 bn stable term deposits Increasing tendency Non-cyclical and stable group earnings contributions devoid of credit risk 60% market share of Aareon in Germany Long-established customer base Long-running contracts Group RoE enhancement Very low equity engagement EBT Target 2008 (and onwards): 40 50 mn 14

Institutional Housing Sector: Status 2005: insufficient profitability Aareon Group 1) Aareal First Financial Solutions AG 1) Aareal Bank 2) - Housing Sector department - 2004 2005 2004 2005 2004 2005 EBIT ( mn) 12.3 8.2 Gross result ( mn) -8.5-9.8 Gross result ( mn) 7.8 2.0 Employees 1009 1029 Employees 75 74 Employees 95 96 Insufficient profitability during the past years Altogether about 10 mn EBT in 2004 with 1179 employees Altogether a black zero EBT in 2005 with 1199 employees Insufficient coordination of sales and marketing activities, product development and investments Unclear positioning in the group Implementation of realignment measures to restore profitability and group strategy integration 15 1) Single / Sub-group financial statements according to IFRS 2) According to internal profit centre calculation

Aareon Group How to increase profitability 1. Review of product strategy with focus on customer needs Blue Eagle (Premium solution for customer with more complex ERP / IT requirements) Around 50 further implementations of Blue Eagle during the last months GES and WohnData (Well established standard solution for housing industry processes for long-established customers) Wodis (Less complex solution for medium-sized customers) 2. Focusing on core competences and core business Sale of Aareon Energy Management 3. Strict cost management restructuring plan for Aareon, which costs 6 million Euros and was fully realised in this quarter s P&L About 100 FTE reductions will be realised until early 2007 4. Product costing analysis of all sub segments 16

Aareon revenues: expected split by product How to increase stability mn 180 120 60 0 '2006 (exp) 2008 (exp) 2006 (e) 2008 (e) Shrinking proportion of Integrated Services and Add-ons (concentration on core products) Continuation of our International ERP systems Full integration of our solution for mid-sized customers: Wodis Realistic growth perspective for Blue Eagle Continuation of the established systems GES and WohnData GES/WohnData Blue Eagle Integrated Services / Add-ons Wodis International ERP systems 17

Integrated Payment Solutions: How to increase profitability 1. Establishment of a joint profit centre calculation 2. Integrated product and sales strategy Customer-oriented focus on core products and services Strengthened sales activities and restructuring of front to back office processes 3. Strict cost management Reduction of 30 head counts (20% of current total) until 2008 18

Institutional Housing Sector: Breakdown of profitability targets IT-Services business Aareon Group 1) Integrated Payment Solutions Institutional Housing department / AFFS 1) 2006 2007 2008 2006 2007 2008 Revenues ( mn) 170-175 140-150 2) 170-180 Revenues ( mn) 50-55 55-60 60-65 Expenses ( mn) 165-170 130-135 140-145 Direct Expenses ( mn) 45-50 40-45 35-40 EBIT ( mn) 5-10 10-20 30-40 Gross result 2) ( mn) (5) - 0 0-5 10-20 Employees 3) ca. 1050 ca. 940 ca. 910 Employees ca. 160 ca. 150 ca. 140 Target 2006: positive one-digit-million contribution to the segment EBT Target 2008: 40 50 mn contribution to the segment EBT 1) Sub-group financial statements according to IFRS 2) Decrease due to strategic sale of Energy- Management 3) Including Techem cross over deal 1) Internal profit centre calculation 2) after bank overheads gross profits before bank overheads: 5-10 mn (2006), 10-15 mn (2007), 20-30 mn (2008) 19

20 Property Asset Management

Property Asset Management major activities Aareal Bank Property Asset Management Segment Holding company: Aareal Asset Management GmbH Aareal Asset Management Closed-ended real estate funds targeting institutional investors According to German and International law Theme funds 3 fully placed funds 1 fund in phase of placement Aareal Immobilien Kapitalanlagegesellschaft Open-ended special funds targeting institutional investors According to German investment law Theme funds 1 fully placed fund 1 fund in phase of placement Deutsche Structured Finance Closed funds for private investors Theme funds 25 fully placed funds 21

22 Refinancing

Long-term refinancing structure Group Refinancing structure as at 30.09.2006 72% 15% Hypothekenpfandbriefe 13% Öffentliche Pfandbriefe Long-term credit rating upgrade by Fitch to A- on 7 Nov 2006 Issue of more than 3.25 bn long term funding in 9M 2006 More than 50% of the issues were Pfandbriefe (covered bonds) First Pfandbrief benchmark in SEK Senior unsecured 23

Regulatory indicators (BIS) Capital ratios (according to BIS) 30.09.06 30.06.06 31.03.06 31.12.05 30.09.05 mn mn mn mn mn Core capital 1,319 1,295 1,282 1,281 1,281 Total capital 2,283 2,266 2,260 2,260 2,285 RWA 19,076 18,553 18,549 17,926 18,531 Tier 1 Ratio 7.0% 7.1% 7.0% 7.2% 6.9% Total capital Ratio 12.0% 12.2% 12.2% 12.6% 12.2% 24

25 Targets

Target results 2006 2006 (target) 9M 2006 Net loan loss provisions ( mn) 80-90 66 Operating Profit ( mn) >150 122 Net RoE (%) >8.0 9.4 Tier I ratio (%) 7.1 7.0 Key figures well in line or exceeding expectations Increase of 2006 targets after very successful first nine months Normalised risk provisioning in 2006 Administrative expenses reduction in 2006 Operating profit target 2006: increased to > 150 mn Net RoE target 2006: exceeding capital costs 26

Group Facts and Figures Q3 2006 27

Group P&L Q3 2006 Q3 2006 Q2 2006 Q3 2005 mn mn mn Net interest income 97 102 93 Net loan loss provisions 22 22 189 Net interest income after net loan loss provisions 75 80-96 Net commission income 38 44 41 Results from hedges 4 3 1 Net trading income 5-4 -7 Results from non-trading assets 16 13 5 Results from companies accounted for at equity 1 0 0 Results from investment properties 0-1 -15 Administrative expenses 93 94 99 Other operating income -3-1 -23 Depreciation of goodwill 0 0 0 Operating Profit 43 40-193 Income taxes 17 9-78 Group net income 26 31-115 Allocation of results Minority interest income / loss 4 5 5 Gains attributable to shareholders of Aareal Bank AG 22 26-120 Interest income affected by securitisations and portfolio sale in Q3 2006 (with retrospective effect 31.7.2006) Underlying commission income stable (as high commissions from Asset Management segment in Q2 are nonrecurring) Admin expenses successfully reduced despite one-off effect from Aareon restructuring plan ( 6 mn) 9M annualised RoE after taxes = 9.4% EpS = 1.71 in 9 M 2006 28

Group P&L 9M 2006 1.1.-30.09.2006 1.1.-30.09.2005 Change mn mn % Net interest income 297 322-7.8 Net loan loss provisions 66 249-73.5 Net interest income after net loan loss provisions 231 73 >100 Net commission income 118 119-0.8 Results from hedges 6 2 >100 Net trading income 6-14 --- Results from non-trading assets 40 26 +53.8 Results from companies accounted for at equity 4-2 --- Results from investment properties -1-11 --- Administrative expenses 276 297-7.1 Other operating income -6-13 --- Depreciation of goodwill 0 0 --- Operating Profit 122-117 --- Income taxes 35-57 --- Group net income 87-60 --- Allocation of results mn mn Minority interest income / loss 14 15-6.7 Gains / losses attributable to shareholders of Aareal Bank AG 73-75 --- 29

Segment Reporting Q3 2006 Structured Property Financing Consulting / Services Property Asset Management Consolidation/ Reconciliation/ Other Aareal Bank Group mn mn mn mn mn Q3 2006 Q3 2005 Q3 2006 Q3 2005 Q3 2006 Q3 2005 Q3 2006 Q3 2005 Q3 2006 Q3 2005 Net interest income 83 85 0 0 1-1 13 9 97 93 Net loan loss provisions 22 189 22 189 Net interest income after net LLP 61-104 0 0 1-1 13 9 75-96 Net commission income 12 5 39 43 2 3-15 -10 38 41 Results from hedges 4 1 4 1 Net trading income 5-7 0 0 5-7 Results from non-trading assets 1 5 14 1 16 5 Results from companies accounted for at equity 1 0 0 1 0 Results from investment properties 0-15 0 0-15 Administrative expenses 45 50 46 48 4 4-2 -3 93 99 Other operating income -9-25 5 1 1 3 0-2 -3-23 Depreciation of goodwill 0 0 0 0 0 Operating Profit 30-190 12-4 1 1 0 0 43-193 Income taxes 12-77 5-1 0 0 0 0 17-78 Group net income 18-113 7-3 1 1 0 0 26-115 Allocated shareholders's equity 728 713 90 103 26 27 186 86 1,030 929 Cost / income ratio (%) 58.7 101.3 81.7 107.1 87.7 101.2 66.4 103.3 RoE after taxes (%) 9.1-65.6 27.8-11.4 4.1 2.2 8.7-51.9 30

Segment Reporting 9M 2006 Structured Property Financing Consulting / Services Property Asset Management Consolidation/ Reconciliation/ Other Aareal Bank Group 1.1.- 30.09.2006 mn mn mn mn mn 1.1.- 30.09.2005 1.1.- 30.09.2006 1.1.- 30.09.2005 1.1.- 30.09.2006 1.1.- 30.09.2005 1.1.- 30.09.2006 1.1.- 30.09.2005 1.1.- 30.09.2006 1.1.- 30.09.2005 Net interest income 260 295 0 1 2-1 35 27 297 322 Net loan loss provisions 66 249 66 249 Net interest income after net LLP 194 46 0 1 2-1 35 27 231 73 Net commission income 23 11 120 131 14 8-39 -31 118 119 Results from hedges 6 2 6 2 Net trading income 5-13 1-1 6-14 Results from non-trading assets 23 26 16 1 40 26 Results from companies accounted for at equity 1 0 3-2 4-2 Results from investment properties -1-11 0-1 -11 Administrative expenses 140 153 127 139 14 12-5 -7 276 297 Other operating income -11-11 4 2 2 5-1 -9-6 -13 Depreciation of goodwill 0 0 0 0 0 Operating Profit 100-103 16-7 6-1 0-6 122-117 Income taxes 28-52 5-2 2-1 0-2 35-57 Group net income 72-51 11-5 4 0 0-4 87-60 Allocated shareholders's equity 728 713 90 103 26 27 186 86 1,030 929 Cost / income ratio (%) 53.9 60.4 89.8 104.6 76.7 115.8 64.7 74.2 RoE after taxes (%) 11.1-11.9 13.2-8.5 16.7-4.4 9.4-10.8 31

Balance Sheet: Assets 30.09.2006 31.12.2005 Assets mn mn Cash Funds 2.335 1.494 Loans and advances to banks 2.560 1.581 Loans and advances to customers 22.421 25.148 Provisions for loan losses -340-1.140 Positive market value of derivative hedging instruments 914 1.131 Trading assets 662 616 Non-current assets and disposal groups held for sale 16 208 Non-tradtng assets 8.294 9.115 Interests in companies accounted for at euity 162 160 Investment properties 92 89 Intangible assets 70 70 Property and equipment 92 93 Income tax assets 22 11 Deferred tax assets 158 169 Other assets 571 441 Total 38.029 39.186 32

Balance Sheet: Shareholder s equity and liabilities 30.09.2006 31.12.2005 Equity and Liabilities mn mn Liabilities to banks 4.806 7.855 Liabilities to customers 21.596 18.899 Certificated liabilities 7.062 7.549 Negative market value of derivative hedging instruments 914 1.183 Trading liabilities 144 207 Obligations from disposal groups held for sale 0 19 Provisions 260 274 Income tax liabilities 25 25 Deferred tax liabilities 77 74 Other liabilities 412 300 Subordinated equity 1.403 1.560 Shareholder's equity Subscribed capital 128 128 Capital reserves 511 511 Retained earnings 318 344 Reserves from transactions under common control -20-42 Revaluation surplus 75 56 Minority interest 245 244 Group retained income 73 0 Total shareholders' equity 1.330 1.241 Total 38.029 39.186 33

Contact Jürgen Junginger (Head of Investor Relations) Managing Director Investor Relations Phone: +49 611 348 2636 juergen.junginger@aareal-bank.com Alexandra Beust Senior Manager Investor Relations Phone: +49 611 348 3053 alexandra.beust@aareal-bank.com Michelle Lynn Smith Assistant Investor Relations Phone: +49 611 348 3009 michelle-lynn.smith@aareal-bank.com 34

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