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Catella Group Management are happy to announce the promotion of Shauna Mehl as Head of ESG. The appointment underscores Catella’s steadfast commitment to sustainability excellence and corporate responsibility. In alignment with the group’s values, identifying the ideal candidate internally further emphasizes growth opportunities and empowerment of the employees retaining our talented workforce.

Retail is suffering across Europe! No, especially as generalized statements indicate a general trend, but a more in-depth market analysis reveals major differences within the EU member states and the UK. The fact is that there are many solutions in the largest retail sub-segment, shopping centers, to "return to pre-pandemic figures". However, this is where the first error in thinking lies: it was already foreseeable in the middle of the last decade that the times of steadily rising transaction volumes and increasing customer frequency had reached their peak - on a European average, mind you. There was hope immediately after the pandemic. However, this turned out to be a classic catch-up effect - in combination with the turnaround in interest rates, the war and consumer restraint.

Catella’s latest European Residential Vision 2024 research report concludes that the acceleration in global warming is building-up pressure on residential real estate investors to integrate fundamental ‘climate finance’ strategies into their portfolios if they are to avoid the risks of a stagnation in values and being left holding stranded assets.

More than ever, global developments are having a significant impact on the transportation, transport and logistics markets. On the surface, the tense geopolitical and economic environment, such asthe war in Ukraine, Houthi attacks in the Gulf of Aden, volatility in inflation rates, interest rate turnaround, and rise in freight rates is reflected in global supply chains and therefore also in the European transaction markets. According to data from Real Capital Analytics (RCA), the transaction volume on the European market for the industrial asset class in 2023 was around 46% below the previous year's level.

Catella acted as the exclusive financial advisor of Paavo Nurmi Foundation in the sale of two residential properties located in the districts of Töölö and Kallio in the inner city of Helsinki to Elo Mutual Pension Insurance Company.

Catella Residential Investment Management has acquired an Elithis ‘energy-positive’ residential tower and attached low-rise building development in the city of Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of central France on behalf on an institutional mandate for an estimated investment of approx. € 29 million.

The intense inflation that started in 2022, coupled with fast rise of interest rates, ultimately caused real estate transaction volume to collapse. We entered year 2023 with a very quiet market after the rapid increase in yields, and despite high hopes, the market did not show signs of recovery at any point. Last year’s transaction volume resulted in ca. EUR 2.5 billion, closely resembling the levels seen in the record weak years after the financial crisis.

The property is located at Lönnrotinkatu 20, and was built in 1972. The total lettable area is approximately 5,800 sqm. The ground floor is fully rented to Lidl, while the four upper floors are vacant. Catella Real Estate AG (CREAG) acquired the property in 2011 for the Special Fund Catella Scandia Chances. Due to several trends affecting the office market, the property was sold as a development project. Slättö, on behalf of the Slättö Value Add II fund, plans to convert the property for hotel use.

Jermu Kujanpää joins Catella Asset Management Finland (CAM) from Catella Property on January 29th, 2024.

Catella acted as the exclusive financial advisor of Ålandsbanken Asuntorahasto Erikoissijoitusrahasto in the sale of two new-built residential properties located in Espoo to CapMan Residential Fund in 2023.