EANS-Voting Rights: GSW Immobilien AG / Release according to article 26, section 1 WpHG (Securities Trading Act) with the aim of Europe-wide distribution

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Notification of voting rights transmitted by euro adhoc. The issuer is
responsible for the content of this announcement.
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Announcement according to Article 27a, Section 1 of the WpHG (qualifying
holdings)

Notification according to Section 27a of the German Securities Trading Act
(Wertpapierhandelsgesetz - WpHG)

According to the notifications of voting rights (exceeded the threshold of 10%
on 20.02.2012) in GSW Immobilien AG we were informed on the 24.02.2012 by the
following companies:

Sun Life Financial (U.S.) Holdings, Inc., (Wellesley Hills, USA)
Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada - U.S. Operations Holdings, Inc.,
(Wellesley Hills, USA)
Sun Life Global Investments Inc., (Toronto, Kanada)
Sun Life Financial Inc., (Toronto, Kanada)
Sun Life Financial (U.S.) Investments LLC, (Wellesley Hills, USA)
Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Financial Services Holdings, Inc. (Boston, USA)

With the notification below:

The companies give notice of the aims pursued with the purchase of the voting
rights according to Section 27a WpHG as follows:

1. The Notifying Party does not hold any direct voting rights in the
Company.
All voting rights are fully attributed according to Section 22 para. 1
sentence 1 no. 6 WpHG in conjunction with Section 22 para. 1 sentence 2
WpHG.

The investment of the Notifying Party's subsidiary - an investment firm
that invests on behalf of its clients - is solely aimed at generating
trading profits. The investment is not aimed at implementing strategic
objectives.

2. The Notifying Party does not currently plan to acquire further voting
rights within the next twelve months by means of a purchase or by any
other means. However, it is possible that the subsidiary of the Notifying
Party will most likely purchase further voting rights within the next
twelve months if the purchase of voting rights is deemed beneficial to
the
subsidiary's clients. These voting rights would be fully attributed to
the
Notifying Party again.

3. The Notifying Party does not intend to exert any influence on the
appointment or removal of members of the Company's administrative,
managing and supervisory bodies.

4. The Notifying Party does not intend to achieve a material change in the
Company's capital structure, in particular as regards the ratio between
own funds and external funds and the dividend policy.

In respect of the origin of the funds used to acquire the voting rights, it is
given notice according to Section 27a para. 1 sentence 4 WpHG that the
Notifying Party did not raise any equity or debt funds for the acquisition of
the voting rights. All voting rights were fully attributed according to Section
22 para. 1 sentence 1 no. 6 WpHG in conjunction with Section 22 para. 1
sentence 2 WpHG (10.0004% of the voting rights).

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Also on the 24.02.2012 we were informed with the notification below:

Massachusetts Financial Services Company (MFS) (Boston, USA) an investment
company that invests money and exercises voting rights only on behalf of its
clients, in relation to the notification of voting rights (exceeding the
threshold of 10% as of 20 February 2012) in GSW Immobilien AG give notice of
the aims pursued with the purchase of the voting rights according to Section
27a WpHG as follows:

1. The investment is solely aimed at generating trading profits. The
investment is not aimed at implementing strategic objectives.

2. The Notifying Party does not currently plan to acquire further
voting rights within the next twelve months by means of a purchase or by
any other means. However, as the Notifying Party is an investment firm
that invests on behalf of its clients, further voting rights will most
likely be purchased within the next twelve months if the purchase of
voting rights is deemed beneficial to its clients.

3. The Notifying Party does not intend to exert any influence on the
appointment or removal of members of the Company?s administrative,
managing and supervisory bodies.

4. The Notifying Party does not intend to achieve a material change in the
Company?s capital structure, in particular as regards the ratio between
own funds and external funds and the dividend policy.

In respect of the origin of the funds used to acquire the voting rights, it is
given notice according to Section 27a para. 1 sentence 4 WpHG that the
Notifying Party did not raise any equity or debt funds for the acquisition of
the voting rights. All voting rights were fully attributed according to Section
22 para. 1 sentence 1 no. 6 WpHG (8.1048% of the voting rights) and Section 22
para. 1 sentence 1 no. 6 WpHG in conjunction with Section 22 para. 1 sentence 2
WpHG (1.8956% of the voting rights).

Further inquiry note:
René Bergmann
Tel.: +49 30 2534 1362
Fax: +49 30 2534 1909
E-Mail: [email protected]
end of announcement euro adhoc
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issuer: GSW Immobilien AG
Charlottenstr. 4
D-10969 Berlin
phone: +49 30 68 99 99 0
FAX: +49 30 68 99 99 999
mail: [email protected]
WWW: http://www.gsw.de
sector: Real Estate
ISIN: DE000GSW1111
indexes: MDAX
stockmarkets: regulated dealing: Berlin, regulated dealing/prime standard:
Frankfurt
language: English

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