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Understanding Your Property's Energy Efficiency: The Energy and Renovation Planner from VON POLL IMMOBILIEN

Location, location, … energy efficiency! What used to be a secondary consideration is now a decisive factor in the real estate market.

Prospective buyers are paying increasing attention to a property’s energy efficiency, any potential need for renovation, and long-term energy costs. At the same time, many homeowners are wondering how energy-efficient their home is, which renovation measures make sense, and how this might affect the property’s value and chances of selling.

Common questions include:
• Is an energy-efficiency upgrade worth it?
•    Which renovation measures make sense?
• And how does all of this affect the property’s value?

With the Energy and Renovation Calculator from VON POLL IMMOBILIEN, homeowners receive free digital guidance on precisely these topics. The tool provides transparency regarding the property’s energy efficiency, potential renovation measures—including costs, savings potential, and government incentives. The analysis is clearly structured and immediately understandable.

In this way, VON POLL IMMOBILIEN supplements its comprehensive consulting services with another digital offering that provides clarity early on and is available as part of the real estate platform at VON POLL IMMOBILIEN.

Energy Efficiency of Your Property: Easily Assess Energy Efficiency

The Energy and Renovation Calculator is designed for owners who want to know how their property performs in terms of energy efficiency. By entering just a few details—including the year of construction, living area, type of heating system, and insulation—users can get a realistic picture of the property’s current energy efficiency.

The result: Owners receive an indicative assessment of their property’s energy efficiency class, along with suggestions on where specific opportunities for improvement exist. This makes an often complex topic accessible without requiring technical prior knowledge or extensive research.

House and smartphone with Energy and Renovation Planner

Renovation measures for your property: Estimate renovation costs based on average values

A key benefit of the Energy and Renovation Calculator is its transparent presentation of possible renovation measures. The tool highlights which upgrades may be worthwhile, such as improvements to the heating system, insulation, or windows.

It does not merely display the estimated investment costs. Based on the current energy costs you enter, the calculator also shows:

  • ✔ estimated potential monthly savings after renovation
  • ✔ the long-term effect on energy consumption


This provides homeowners with a reliable basis for decision-making to weigh which measures are economically viable and which should be prioritized.

Grants for energy-efficiency renovations: Reduce costs and plan more effectively

A particular highlight is the integrated subsidy search. Based on the data entered, the energy and renovation calculator automatically checks which government subsidy programs may be eligible.

Property owners can see at a glance:

  • ✔ which grants are currently available
  • ✔ the amount of funding available
  • ✔ how funding affects the total costs


This saves time, reduces uncertainty, and makes planning renovation projects much easier. At the same time, it becomes clear how grants can lower your out-of-pocket costs and contribute to long-term value appreciation.

Energy Efficiency, Renovation, and Property Value: Understanding the Effects Transparent

Energy-efficiency measures affect not only operating costs but also a property’s appeal and market value. The Energy and Renovation Calculator makes this relationship easy to understand.
Owners can run through various scenarios and see how individual measures affect energy performance metrics and market potential. This makes it clear how targeted modernizations can contribute to a successful sale or to long-term value appreciation.

Digital Energy Guidance as the Basis for Personalized Real Estate Consulting

The Energy and Renovation Calculator is intentionally designed as a guidance service. It is available in the VON POLL IMMOBILIEN customer portal and can be used online, regardless of whether a specific sale is already planned or not.

A key advantage: The digital results can be directly integrated into your personal consultation with the independent real estate professionals at VON POLL IMMOBILIEN. This transforms the digital preliminary orientation into a comprehensive consulting process that addresses individual questions and explores them in depth professionally.

Calculate your property’s energy efficiency for free now and discover its potential:

Go to the Energy and Renovation Planner

Comprehensive real estate consulting: Focus on energy efficiency, renovation, and sale

With digital services such as the energy and renovation calculator, VON POLL IMMOBILIEN positions itself as a competent partner throughout all phases of property ownership—from valuation, through renovation and financing, to sale or management. The platform concept ensures that owners receive all relevant information in one place and that digital tools are seamlessly integrated with personalized advice. 

Wolfram Gast, Chief Digital Officer at VON POLL IMMOBILIEN

Our goal is to provide clarity to property owners early on—before uncertainties arise. The Energy and Renovation Planner helps put important questions about energy efficiency into perspective and paves the way for personalized, informed advice.”

— Wolfram Gast, Chief Digital Officer at VON POLL IMMOBILIEN

Conclusion: Thoroughly assess your property’s energy efficiency and make the right decision

The Energy and Renovation Calculator from VON POLL IMMOBILIEN offers owners a simple way to address the energy status of their property early on and with a solid understanding.
It provides clarity on renovation options, costs, incentives, and potential impacts on property value—in an easy-to-understand, free, and digital format. Combined with the expertise of the independent real estate professionals at VON POLL IMMOBILIEN, this creates a modern consulting approach that provides owners with a reliable basis for decision-making to maintain and increase the value of their property.

Note: The Energy and Renovation Calculator serves as a digital guide and does not replace individual expert advice or an energy performance certificate.


About the author

As Chief Digital Officer since 2021, Wolfram Gast has been visibly driving the digital transformation of VON POLL IMMOBILIEN, one of Europe’s largest real estate brokerage firms. He has implemented and successfully executed comprehensive digital transformation processes within the company. Together with an international product and tech team, as well as an in-house InnovationLab, he has developed innovative digital services—including a digital platform for both clients and real estate agents. A particular focus is on the strategic use of artificial intelligence—for example, in real estate valuation, marketing, customer communication, and process automation. Before joining VON POLL IMMOBILIEN, Gast held various leadership positions in the areas of digital, business intelligence, and marketing for the real estate brokerage and financing divisions.