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Berlin-based Catella Investment Management GmbH (CIM) announces the acquisition of two completed new-build properties in Hanover, Germany. The transaction was carried out for an individual mandate and together with the KVG platform Catella Real Estate AG (CREAG) for the Catella European Residential fund. Catella European Residential (CER) is managed by Catella Investment Management GmbH as investment advisor, while Catella Real Estate AG acts as KVG platform. The real estate assets of CER currently amount to approx. 1,385 million euros. The seller is PHI Kronsrode Grundstücks GmbH. The total sales volume is above 50 million euros.

Catella Investment Management GmbH (CIM) and its AIFM platform Catella Real Estate AG have signed a long-term lease for approx. 2,000 square meters of retail space in the Depot Areal retail park in Tübingen with the organic food producer and retailer Alnatura. The new store, scheduled to open in early 2026, will become the largest organic food supermarket in Germany in terms of floor space. The Depot site comprises a total of approx. 10,279 square meters of lettable space and was acquired in 2020 for the open-ended real estate special fund “IWS II - Wirtschaftsregion Süddeutschland”. The lease term is 15 years.

Things are getting underway at the Düssel-Terrassen: Last Friday, 4 July, Catella hosted the official ground-breaking ceremony for the second largest certified KlimaQuartier.NRW. In the first construction phase, 54 price-controlled residential units with a total rental area of 4,254 sqm are being built. Just in time for the ground-breaking ceremony, planning permission was granted for a further 94 residential units and 3 commercial units, and the next phases will follow shortly with a total of around 800 flats.

As part of the nationwide investment programme ‘Cooperative Innovative Living Germany’, Catella Project Management is developing an innovative mixed-use project on Silbersteinstrasse in Berlin-Neukölln. The building application was submitted this week.

In the first quarter of 2025, rental prices in Europe continued to rise, while developments in purchase prices varied: some markets are experiencing a moderate recovery, while others are still seeing slight price declines. Persistently low levels of new construction amid high housing demand are leading to supply shortages in many cities, resulting in an increase in the overcrowding of rental apartments. These trends are analysed in the current Catella Residential Market Overview Q1/2025, which examines developments in 59 cities across 16 European countries. 

Catella Investment Management (CIM) and its AIFM platform Catella Real Estate AG have let a logistics and production property in Redwitz an der Rodach, Bavaria, to the Munich-based company easy2cool. The property is located on a plot of around 36,000 square metres in the Redwitz-Ost industrial park at Dr.-Ludwig-Straße 7 and comprises a total rental area of approx. 17,400 square metres, including approx. 13,700 square metres of logistics space, approx. 2,900 square metres of mezzanine space, and approx. 700 square metres of office, social and technical space. The lease runs for more than ten years. The property was acquired in 2021 for the open-ended special property fund CLD+, which fulfils the criteria of Article 8 of the EU Disclosure Regulation.

Catella Project Management welcomes Julia Bauer (36) to the team as a new Senior Project Manager. With extensive experience in project development and in-depth expertise in the field of sustainable construction, she has been supporting the company in the development and implementation of pioneering property projects since the beginning of the year.

Catella Real Estate AG (CREAG), from January 1, 2025 forming Catella’s new format of fund investment platform together with Catella Investment Management GmbH (CIM), advised by local operating partner Aquila Asset Management SAS (Aquila), acquires three stabilized new logistics properties with a total lettable area of approx. 18,750 m² in the French cities of St. Etienne and Avignon for the special AIF "Catella Logistik Deutschland Plus" (CLD+). The seller of the fully let properties is the French developer Vectura Immobilier. The long-term tenants are a logistics company and a parcel service provider.

Catella Real Estate AG (CREAG), from January 1, 2025, forming Catella’s new format of fund investment platform together with Catella Investment Management GmbH (CIM), sold the approx. 8,961 sqm office property ‘Rue de Bruyeres 60’ in Howald, Luxembourg, on the south-eastern edge of Luxembourg City, for the fund ‘Sarasin Sustainable Properties - European Cities’. CIM is the advisor of the Sarasin Sustainable Properties - European Cities Fund with Catella Real Estate AG providing the German KVG platform.

The “who's who” of the real estate industry came to Königsallee 106 yesterday, Wednesday, January 22, 2025, where the existing building from the 1960s is currently being demolished and where a 17-storey office building will rise in the future. Investors Catella and WPV as well as Laarakkers as the contractor invited guests to the construction site; Lord Mayor Dr. Stephan Keller and Head of Building Cornelia Zuschke gave the official go-ahead for the pioneering high-rise project on Düsseldorf's Kö.

Lord Mayor Dr. Stephan Keller and Head of Building Cornelia Zuschke give the official go-ahead for the pioneering high-rise project on Düsseldorf's boulevard. The investors Catella and WPV as well as Laarakkers as the executing company invite you to Königsallee 106 on January 22, 2025, where the existing building from the 1960s is currently being demolished and where a 17-storey office building will rise in the future.

Berlin-based Catella Investment Management (CIM) has acquired a residential development project in Bamberg, northern Bavaria, as part of an individual mandate. The seller is Instone Real Estate. The two projected buildings comprise 2,370 square meters of residential space and 583 square metres of commercial space on the ground floors. The 35 planned residential units are divided into 17 two-room and 18 three-room apartments. Planning permission has already been granted and construction is scheduled to start at the beginning of 2025.