The first step will be the acquisition of 14.5 % of the homegate.ch shares by both Edipresse

and Tamedia respectively. For the time being, the Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB) will remain the main shareholder with a two-thirds holding in homegate.ch. In return, homegate AG will acquire Swissimo SA and the online real estate operations of Tamedia. The previous minority shareholder of Swissimo SA, PubliGroupe SA, will receive 4 % of homegate AG.
The company de Rahm, which also held shares in Swissimo SA, will not take a share in homegate AG. In a second stage, from 2008, Edipresse and Tamedia will acquire a majority interest in homegate AG. The parties have agreed to maintain confidentiality on the details of the transaction.
Charles Stettler, General Manager, Private Customers at ZKB, will remain Chairman of the Board of Directors at homegate AG, and Urs Hügli will continue to manage the company. Tibère Adler, General Manager, Switzerland of Edipresse Publications SA, and Martin Kall, Chairman of Executive Management at Tamedia AG will represent the two companies on the Board of Directors.

A centre of competence for real estate marketing

The previous operations of Edipresse (swissimo.ch) and Tamedia (tagesanzeiger.ch/immobilien) will be integrated into the online real estate operations of homegate.ch. At the same time, homegate.ch will be included in the existing property listings of the print and online publications at the two media companies. This will create a centre of competence in real estate marketing for Switzerland.
Swissimo SA will become a homegate AG subsidiary, and will continue to run the broker network SwissRéseau in western Switzerland. These operations will be extended. Existing customer and broker relationships built up by the Web sites swissimo.ch and tagesanzeiger.ch/immobilien will either be taken over by homegate.ch or continue under Swissimo SA. homegate.ch will continue to provide online mortgage mediation in the form of an “open finance” model involving twelve partners operating in the financial market. In future, this distribution channel will be open to all first-class Swiss mortgage providers in addition to ZKB.

The transaction is subject to the approval of the Swiss Competition Commission (ComCo). Operations at homegate.ch, swissimo.ch, SwissRéseau and tagesanzeiger.ch/immobilien will continue unchanged until the ComCo decision has been announced.

homegate AG is a subsidiary of the Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB). Established in March 2001, the company hassome twenty-three employees and operates the leading Swiss real estate Web site, homegate.ch, which offersnumerous services in the real estate branch.

For further information contact:

• homegate AG

Urs Hügli, CEO, phone ++41 (0)1 711 86 10

• Edipresse Publications SA

Tibère Adler, Switzerland General Manager, phone ++41 (0)21 349 45 24

• Tamedia AG

Franziska Hügli, Head of Corporate Communications, phone ++41 (0)1 248 41 00

• Zürcher Kantonalbank

Urs Ackermann, Head of the Media Office, phone ++41 (0)1 292 29 79