Our team

We are an experienced and passionate team specializing in real estate marketing. We know the real estate and banking industry inside out and know exactly what matters.

With our experience and passion, we can help you find the perfect property - whether residential or commercial.

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Dr. Klaus Weichselbaum, MSc
Senior Project Manager

"From the project idea to the completion of a real estate project, there are many tasks to be mastered. It is important to reconcile business and technical requirements and to select the optimal utilization variant."

Klaus Weichselbaum is a financing expert in the field of commercial real estate project financing due to his many years of banking practice. He has transaction practice in the hotel sector (negotiation of leases, investor search and project management) as well as in the retail sector. Another focus of his practice is senior real estate such as nursing homes and assisted living.

He worked as an investment broker for an international brand and, in addition to his law degree, studied real estate management and valuation at the Vienna University of Technology (master's thesis Project Rating and Credit Decision Process). Klaus Weichselbaum is co-editor and co-author of the handbook Real Estate Financing, Structured Financing of Commercial Real Estate (LINDE Verlag), which is a standard work in this field.

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Ing. Mag. (FH) Christian Brunner
CEO | Managing Partner

MRICS, REV, CIS ImmoZert
Generally sworn and judicially certified surveyor

"Real estate is for life, we live for real estate."

Christian Brunner is a real estate expert and a generally sworn and judicially certified real estate appraiser. He studied real estate economics and already has 25 years of experience in the real estate sector.

In the process, he has worked in a wide variety of areas and positions, from building services manager to facility manager and, most recently, as a senior executive at a valuation firm in the banking sector. He is a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt and a lecturer at the Academy for Law, Taxes and Economics in Vienna. In addition, he has published two books in the field of real estate valuation and has been accepted into the membership circle of the Oxford Encyclopedia.

Real estate is his expertise and passion, because every property is different and has its own individual and exciting story.

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Walter Toifl, MSc
Head of Investment

Walter Toifl has been working in real estate brokerage for many years and completed his Master's degree (Real Estate Management) at Danube University Krems. He has many years of national and international experience in the real estate sector of various asset classes and has a widespread network. In the last decades he gained international professional experience in different areas like telecommunication, retail and internet business.

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Ing. Mag. (FH) Christian Brunner
CEO | Managing Partner

MRICS, REV, CIS ImmoZert
Generally sworn and judicially certified surveyor

"Real estate is for life, we live for real estate."

Christian Brunner is a real estate expert and a generally sworn and judicially certified real estate appraiser. He studied real estate economics and already has 25 years of experience in the real estate sector.

In the process, he has worked in a wide variety of areas and positions, from building services manager to facility manager and, most recently, as a senior executive at a valuation firm in the banking sector. He is a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt and a lecturer at the Academy for Law, Taxes and Economics in Vienna. In addition, he has published two books in the field of real estate valuation and has been accepted into the membership circle of the Oxford Encyclopedia.

Real estate is his expertise and passion, because every property is different and has its own individual and exciting story.

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Walter Toifl, MSc
Head of Investment

Walter Toifl has been working in real estate brokerage for many years and completed his Master's degree (Real Estate Management) at Danube University Krems. He has many years of national and international experience in the real estate sector of various asset classes and has a widespread network. In the last decades he gained international professional experience in different areas like telecommunication, retail and internet business.

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Dr. Klaus Weichselbaum MSc
Senior Project Manager

"From the project idea to the completion of a real estate project, there are many tasks to be mastered. It is important to reconcile business and technical requirements and to select the optimal utilization variant."

Klaus Weichselbaum is a financing expert in the field of commercial real estate project financing due to his many years of banking practice. He has transaction practice in the hotel sector (negotiation of leases, investor search and project management) as well as in the retail sector. Another focus of his practice is senior real estate such as nursing homes and assisted living.

He worked as an investment broker for an international brand and, in addition to his law degree, studied real estate management and valuation at the Vienna University of Technology (master's thesis Project Rating and Credit Decision Process). Klaus Weichselbaum is co-editor and co-author of the handbook Real Estate Financing, Structured Financing of Commercial Real Estate (LINDE Verlag), which is a standard work in this field.

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Dr. Alexander Malikov
Senior Investment Manager

Alexander Malikov has been working in the real estate sector for over 10 years. During this time he gained extensive experience in Austria, Germany, Italy and other CEE countries in advising investors and property owners, brokering and financing residential and investment properties, implementing development projects and asset management of properties in various classes. He has extensive experience in almost all real estate segments: from residential to office, from retail to hotels, from land acquisition to financing and implementation of real estate developments in various countries in Europe.

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Mag. Sabine Gschwentner
Head of Marketing | Sales

As "Head of Marketing & Sales" Mrs. Sabine Gschwentner is responsible for the expansion of the EPHIC Group in the west of Austria and the development of the Innsbruck branch since May 2022.

The Tyrolean cheerful nature and "networker" with passion already tended towards marketing during her studies of art history. After a variety of marketing stations, including the Vienna Parliament, an internationally renowned auction house, a publisher of luxury magazines and several years with a large media company, her professional career finally led her to the real estate industry.

In the course of her work for one of the leading real estate agencies in Kitzbühel as well as for an international real estate portal, Ms. Gschwentner acquired her extensive real estate know-how in the following years.

As a "local" with a versatile professional background and an excellent network, Ms. Gschwentner is the ideal candidate for the EPHIC Group in the Alpine region.

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Michael Weintögl, BA, MSc, MRICS
Head of Valuation

"What you can't measure, you can't direct."
Peter F. Drucker, economist

Michael Weintögl is an expert in real estate valuations of residential and commercial properties. His profession lies in particular in the determination of market value for management properties such as hotels and gastronomy objects. The more complex the property, the more exciting the task seems to him. Especially due to the complexity of hotels, they represent a particularly interesting task and challenging approach for him.

Michael Weintögl studied Real Estate Business at the University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt as well as at the renowned International Real Estate Business School of the University of Regensburg.

In addition to his more than 10 years of experience in real estate valuation, he has also been training students at the University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt since 2013 as a specialist in the valuation of a wide range of property types. Since 2015, he has been a member of RICS, the world's leading professional association for real estate experts. Independently of this, he is extensively involved with the topic of sustainability.

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Lisa Ghuneim, BA
Office Management

"What you have to learn to do, you learn by doing." - Aristotle

Lisa Ghuneim has a degree in Real Estate Management from Westminster University in London, and her many years of professional experience in the field of assistance and real estate in both national and international companies have put her in an excellent position. Her organizational skills and understanding of the real estate market as well as her language skills are part of a very efficient work flow.