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Record year with transaction volume of EUR 43.3 billion, increase of international investors, positive market sentiment for 2018.  The latest overview of the 2018 Nordic investment markets by Catella Research shows that the economic situation supports the positive trend. With a transaction volume of approx. EUR 43.3 billion (2016: EUR 41.9 billion, 2015: EUR 32.8 billion), more properties were traded in one year than in the past 25 years. EUR 3.4 billion was invested by Nordic investors in European real estate outside of the Nordic countries. The core markets are still in focus of investors but second-tier locations are gaining momentum.

Following the acquisition of a building in Wolfsburg comprising 158 residential units for EUR 11.6 million, “Catella Wohnen Europa” has reached an important milestone after only 2 years. With this transaction, the Berlin-based investment manager Catella Residential Investment Management GmbH (CRIM), a subsidiary of the Swedish Catella Group focused exclusively on the residential asset class, has created a diversified real estate portfolio worth over EUR 590 million in the “Catella Wohnen Europa” fund, with 3,000 residential units in five countries across Europe.

Catella and Kriton Immobilien GmbH have jointly established the asset management company “Catella Asset Management” (CAM). This is in response to growing demand for advisory services in professional real estate management for national and international investors. The new company will thus offer its extensive expertise also to third parties in the German market for the first time.

Ideal investment conditions in the German office markets, yield decline slowed down, rent increase due to lack of supply, A- and B-locations remain the focus of investors.

Berlin-based investment manager Catella Residential Investment Management GmbH (CRIM), a subsidiary of Swedish Catella Group focused exclusively on the residential asset class, has made its final investments for the Catella European Student Housing Fund open-end property special AIF. EUR 400 million has been invested in 18 properties with a total of 4,182 units.

The Munich-based investment manager Catella Real Estate has acquired a car park with 720 parking spaces and a supermarket in Cork for its open-ended real estate special AIF, Catella Parken Europa. The property is leased to one of the leading car park operators in Ireland NCPS on a long-term basis.

The Munich-based investment manager Catella Real Estate AG has launched the “Catella Dutch Residential II”, a successor to the successful “Panta Rhei Dutch Residential” fund. Like its predecessor, the investment fund, which has a target fund volume of more than EUR 300 million, focuses on investments in the Dutch and, to some extent, Belgian residential real estate markets. Initial potential investments are already being appraised.  

The Munich-based investment manager Catella Real Estate has acquired a car park with 720 parking spaces and a supermarket in Cork for its open-ended real estate special AIF, Catella Parken Europa. The property is leased to one of the leading car park operators in Ireland NCPS on a long-term basis.

The Munich-based investment manager Catella Real Estate AG has acquired the mixed-use property "Moosach Center" in the Munich suburb of Moosach for the AIF "Catella BAVARIA", which focuses on the metropolitan regions of Munich and Nuremberg. Completed in 2010 directly at Moosach station, the property has approx. 7,100 square meters of rental space and is fully let.

The Catella Real Estate AG (CREAG) acquired office property in Stuttgart, Wiener Straße 42-46.