◆ The person behind Petzold Immobilien

Stefanie Petzold:
I develop what I sell.

I buy apartments in the Frankfurt Rhine-Main region, develop them into well-planned buy-to-let investments and sell them directly from my own portfolio. My professional background combines three worlds: banking, financing and real estate. With English-speaking buyers, all of it happens in English.

Why I think about buy-to-let differently

As a trained banking specialist and estate agent I bring the knowledge from banking, financing and real estate together, with a clear eye on the numbers, the financing and the property itself. Today I use that experience not simply to sell investments, but to select and develop them the way I would invest myself.

So I don’t forward other people’s listings. I buy the apartments myself, commission the renovation, often handle the first letting, and sell from my own portfolio. That is the difference that matters to me: I don’t have to explain why a property is supposed to be good, because I know the properties and their key figures first-hand. And because you buy directly from me, there is no agent contract and no buyer’s commission.

My background

Before Petzold Immobilien I spent years in capital markets sales at a large German bank, which is why investing is the core of my work rather than an afterthought. My buyers value exactly that combination: an apartment I developed myself, and the loan structure to go with it, from one pair of hands and explained until it is genuinely understood.

My agent qualification supports a second, smaller line of business: owners who want to sell their property in the Rhine-Main region. That work stays cleanly separated from my own developments (details, in German).

What I stand for

• ◆Honesty over sales pressure: if none of my properties fits your strategy, you will hear it, even when it costs me the sale.
• ◆Strategy before property: goals, situation and financing first, then the apartment that actually fits.
• ◆Numbers over brochures: every recommendation is calculated openly, gross yield, net yield, cash flow.
• ◆Support beyond the purchase: management, optimisation, the next property, my job doesn’t end at the notary.

What that looks like in practice: my sold reference properties across the Rhine-Main region, gross yields from 5% upwards, documented rather than promised.