NEW DEPARTMENT HEAD FOR REAL ESTATE STRATEGY FOR THE CITY OF VIENNA | City of Vienna

The head of MA 69 – Real Estate Management, David Vladar, will be the head of the real estate strategy department with the right to issue instructions resulting from Section 10 Paragraph 3 of the Rules of Procedure for the City of Vienna Magistrate. Municipal director Dietmar Griebler presented Vladar with the appointment decree on Thursday, October 31, 2024, in the presence of city planning director Bernhard Jarolim and the representative of younion_Die Daseinsunion, Angela Lueger. The department head for real estate strategy has been in place since 2011. Her predecessor, Daniela Strassl, has held the position since then and retired at the beginning of October. ***

The area of ​​responsibility associated with this function includes the following key areas:

1. Leading the further development of the real estate strategy in coordination with all relevant actors in the City of Vienna;
2. Creation and ongoing development of a continuous improvement process based on key figures that is linked to the real estate strategy;
3. Development of proposals for a further development of the decision-making structure for real estate-related individual decisions, including the relevant coordination and exchange committees;
4. Evaluation of the existing financing structure for making space available and development of proposals for its further development in agreement with Municipal Department 5;
5. Optimization of the processes for mobilizing urban land reserves and reallocating underused areas with the involvement of the relevant internal municipal actors;
6. Management of the office of the Vienna Real Estate Commission (WIMMOK);
7. Preparation and processing of documents for questions relating to real estate strategy for submission to WIMMOK;
8. Preparation of recommendations from WIMMOK to municipal departments, outsourced companies and other institutions within the City of Vienna’s sphere of influence in real estate matters, taking into account the overall interest of the City of Vienna.

Career of David Vladar

David Vladar completed his law studies at the University of Vienna in 2007 and then joined the city of Vienna as a legally qualified employee. His training positions ranged from the district office for the 16th district, to MA 65 – Legal Traffic Affairs and Vienna Housing. In June 2009 he was assigned to MA 65 and worked there initially as a consultant and later as deputy department head (2014).
As part of his career, Vladar also made a name for himself as program manager of “Vienna Gives Space”: https://digitales.wien.gv.at/projekt/wiengibtraum/. In 2021, Vladar took over MA 69 – Real Estate Management, which he has been running successfully for 3 years now. (End) lei