European Growth Leaders 2026

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Francesco Castellaneta, Full Professor of Strategy, SKEMA Business School · Scientific Committee Diego Zunino and Jackie Krafft

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Annual rank88

Germany · Technology

Scout24

Technology company operating ImmoScout24, a digital marketplace for residential and commercial property.

+45%revenue growth
FY2022–FY2025
+94%net-income growth
FY2022–FY2025
+91%stock return
FY2022–FY2025
−19%2026 stock return
current context only

Company profile

From property search to an operating system for the transaction

Scout24 has grown ImmoScout24 from a listings marketplace into a set of tools used before, during and after a property move or sale. Seekers can search homes or commercial space, ask an AI assistant, subscribe for earlier access and prepare application evidence. Owners and agents can value, market and manage property. Behind those journeys, CRM, valuation and market-data products are being connected to Scout24's 2026 vision of an Agentic OS for Real Estate.

Property discovery

Search now spans filters, conversation and visual clues

Property discovery now runs through several interfaces. The seeker hub combines search, saved searches and app workflows, while the commercial marketplace separates offices, halls, retail, hospitality and specialist space. HeyImmo answers property questions and helps shape personalised searches. ImmoScout24's ChatGPT app adds natural-language and visual-feature search, then sends users to the relevant ImmoScout24 listing to contact the provider or explore financing.

Memberships and evidence

Paid search tools continue into the application

Suchen+ for rent adds early or exclusive access and higher placement in providers' inboxes; higher tiers also include tenant-network and waiting-list supply. The buying membership adds price assessment and value-development insights. Applicants can assemble a digital folder with income, rent-payment, credit and identity evidence, while ImmoScout24's SCHUFA certificate is downloadable and includes a code a landlord can use to verify it.

Owners and professionals

Valuation, management and marketing share one toolkit

Owners can bring value, energy efficiency, demand and forecasts into Meine Immos, then move into selling, letting, energy-certificate or management services. For professionals, the 2026 membership suite connects lead generation, valuation, financing, digital management, exposé creation and training. ImmoPunkte can be spent on placements and tools such as valuation, energy certificates, floor plans and AI-generated property videos; the official demonstration turns property images into a room tour.

Data and workflows

The Agentic OS strategy sits on concrete operating products

Scout24 calls the next layer of its platform an Agentic OS for Real Estate: immo.ai is intended to orchestrate workflows across a transaction backend and proprietary context. The operating pieces are already concrete. Propstack connects communication, marketing and reporting in a real-estate CRM; Sprengnetter provides valuation data and APIs; bulwiengesa's RIWIS compares markets, properties and locations across asset classes.

Current 2026 update

What has changed in 2026?

Capital Markets Day 2026 · 12 May 2026

Capital Markets Day 2026latest official update
4company-specific highlights
−19%2026 stock return · context only

Revenue

Q1 revenue increased 13.9% to EUR 179.6 million; organic growth was 10.7%.

Q1 2026 · EUR 179.6m · +13.9%

Ordinary operating EBITDA

Q1 ordinary operating EBITDA increased 15.1% to EUR 107.9 million and the margin rose by 0.6 percentage point to 60.1%.

Q1 2026 · EUR 107.9m · +15.1%

Agentic OS strategy

Scout24 presented an Agentic OS intended to automate and orchestrate real-estate workflows throughout the transaction lifecycle.

Capital Markets Day 2026

2027–2028 framework

Scout24 set its 2027–2028 annual revenue-growth framework at the high end of high single-digit to low double-digit growth and targeted an ordinary operating EBITDA margin of about 64% by 2028.

Capital Markets Day 2026

Annual record

Ranking history

Future editions add rows; they do not rewrite the 2026 record.

EditionMeasurement periodRankRevenue growthNet-income growthStock return
2026FY2022–FY202588+45%+94%+91%