This website was a private, exclusively non-commercial portal for nearly eight years. In 04 / 2010 I integrated a commercial module describing my newly founded company. However, the website basically still is a non-commercial one. It went online in June, 2002. The initial version contained only a few articles, although I had chosen an ambitious headline for my little project: "Immobilien-Kosmos" means "Real Estate Universe". The naming reflected the idea to present essays dealing with a wide variety of real estate and related issues.

First articles were mostly based on my print publications. At the beginning the focus was on retail topics and appraisal methods. Later on urban planning, real estate development, property rating, office and hotel subjects gained importance.

In August 2002, I launched a basic version of a German-English real estate dictionary. Comprising only 350 terms, it was ridiculously small. However, it was rapidly expanded, and soon became the biggest of its kind on a global scale. Today, it boasts more than 54,300 entries. It became the base for "EfI - Englisch für Immobilisten" (English for Real Estate Professionals), my monthly bilingual column in Germany's number one real estate magazine. There are some small specialized dictionaries Spanish-German and Polish-German as well.

The real estate dictionary and EfI significantly contributed to the advancement of the website which evolved into a broadly recognized and well appreciated portal.

Monthly traffic peaked at nearly 200,000 hits and 40,000 visits. However, though some authors published articles on the website, it has basically remained a one-man project. Thus, it is, metaphorically speaking, hard to keep the fire burning. This fact motivated me to publish a selection of English essays. It is planned to gradually extend this English section. The intention is to address an increasing number of international visitors and people who like to publish articles on my site, in particular. I'm especially interested in the participation of people residing in developing and emerging countries, respectively. So please feel free to contact me. You may have a look at my CV, to get a feeling for who I am and what my professional background is.