News and Press releases

The Catella European Residential Fund (CER) has made its first venture into the emerging Portuguese institutional investment market for student housing with the acquisition of an asset in the municipality of Cascais, just to the west of Lisbon, for €15.5 million and with a 99-year leasehold. Berlin-based Catella Residential Investment Management GmbH (CRIM) as investment manager and Munich-based AIFM-platform Catella Real Estate AG were advised by Catella AM Iberia S.L. on the transaction. The vendor was Value One Holding.

Pan-European Investment manager Primevest Capital Partners (Primevest CP) has purchased ‘Elisabethgarten’, a 7,800 m² residential development in Hildesheim, on behalf of a German pension fund for €30 million. Catella Property Consultants acted as advisor to the vendor, developer THI Holding GmbH & Co. KG.

Munich, 20 January 2022: Munich-headquartered Catella Real Estate AG (CREAG) in cooperation with Maastricht-based Catella Investment management Benelux (CIMB) have acquired a mixed-use complex at the prestigious Louise district  Brussels. The complex was acquired on behalf of the individual mandate of the “AVW European Real Estate Fund”, a special fund launched at the end of 2020. The seller of the property, which is fully leased, is Securex VIE AAM and Securex Accidents du Travail Caisse Commune.

Munich, 13th January 2022: Catella Real Estate AG (CREAG) has purchased an affordable and sustainable residential development in Nieuwegein, the Netherlands, together with its sister company Catella Investment Management Benelux (CIMB) . The acquisition was completed through a forward funding agreement with Fresch Real Estate on behalf of Catella’s Sarasin Sustainable Properties - European Cities Fund.

Eduardo Guardiola, current Director & Partner of Catella Asset Management (AM) Iberia, has been appointed as the company's new Managing Partner.

10th January 2022: Maastricht-based Catella Investment Management Benelux (CIMB) and Munich-headquartered AIFM platform Catella Real Estate AG (CREAG) have acquired a residential development in Arnhem, in the east of the Netherlands, for €26 million. The asset was purchased on behalf of the Catella Dutch Residential Fund II from VERDI-STAETE LIVING B.V. Construction will start in January 2022 and is scheduled for completion in April 2023.

The first pan-European ‘dark green’ residential impact fund, Catella European Residential Fund III (‘CER III’), to achieve the highest level of sustainability under the EU’s SFDR Article 9 certification hit more than €750 million in AUM at the end of 2021, after acquiring a senior living property in Brussels for over €50 million from Bassem Certificates SA, a real estate company managed by the Belgian Bank Degroof Petercam.