News and Press releases

Berlin-based Catella Residential Investment Management has appointed Marwin Weber as Fund Manager of its €1.25 billion capital commitment Catella European Residential Fund III (CER III), which is one of the largest pan-European residential investment vehicles.

Catella Poland are responsible for the project management for the renovation and extension works to the five-star Wyndham Wrocław Old Town hotel.

The Catella Elithis Energy Positive Fund (CEEPF), the world’s first real estate investment vehicle to focus exclusively on residential developments which produce more energy from renewable sources in operation than is consumed by the buildings and tenants, has acquired a 76-apartment tower project in Le Havre, northern France for €19 mln. CEEPF is managed by Berlin-based Catella Residential Investment Management (CRIM).

Catella Poland is responsible for the asset and property management of the building at ul. Pereca 11 in Warsaw’s business centre.

Kruunuasunnot Oy has agreed to sell over 1200 rental homes to global investment firm KKR.

Catella Poland provides asset and property management services for the Mistral Offices office complex in Warsaw.

Catella acted as MEKO’s exclusive financial advisor in the sale and leaseback of six warehouse and light industrial properties located in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area to real estate company AB Sagax.

22 May 2023 - In the major European cities, a very high demand for residential space continues to be observed even in the general market turnaround phase. This demand effect, caused by continuing urbanisation processes, in combination with a limited supply of living space, means that residential rents continue to show upward trends.

Catella European Residential (CER), the German public open-ended real estate fund, has acquired a 14,000 sqm waterfront development of 137 senior living apartments distributed across four buildings on Lake Zwenkau on the southern edge of Leipzig for approximately €50 million.

The turnkey contract was secured in May 2021 by Catella AM Iberia on behalf of the Sarasin Sustainable Properties - European Cities Fund, fund managed by Catella Real Estate AG. The building, already operational, is located in Ensanche de Vallecas (Madrid) and is managed by Catella AM Iberia, which has a portfolio in Spain of more than 2,300 properties in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, Pamplona and Vitoria.

28th April 2023 - Spain as an investment location - new Research Residential Report

Catella Wohnen Europa (CWE), the German public open-ended real estate fund, has acquired a development of 90 affordable and fully-serviced apartments for around €10,5 million in Bochum, in the most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The residential project is targeted primarily at young professionals, offering tenants flexible short- and long-stay options. It is operated under the STAYERY brand.

Catella has appointed Gianluca Romano as Head of Capital Raising, starting his position in April. The new role emphasizes Catella’s ambitions to take the next step on the group’s profitable growth journey and be an attractive partner for investors globally.

CATELLA PROPERTY advised PEUGEOT INVEST on the sale of a property complex dedicated to logistics located at 175 rue des Caboeufs in Gennevilliers (92).

Robert Karlsson, current Director of Investment Management in Catella Asset Management (CAM) has been appointed as Managing Director of Catella Asset Management Finland. He will start his new position on 2nd May 2023.

On April 6th, the Catella Residential Partners team gathered 65 real estate actors for the first edition of its #CatellaResidentialPadelTour in a sporty and friendly atmosphere!

Since 2018, Catella has acted as advisor and asset manager for Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company in the management and sale of a real estate portfolio of over 120,000 sqm. The properties were located in 18 different municipalities across Finland. The properties were mainly sold by individual transactions during the last five years, and the last property was sold in December 2022.

The German commercial real estate markets are in a turbulent environment. The ECB's interest rate turnaround in July 2022 ended the low-interest phase in the eurozone. Last year, the key interest rate was raised by 250 basis points in four steps, with a further 100 basis points added so far this year. Due to continued high inflation rates, at least one further interest rate hike by the ECB by the middle of the year is a realistic scenario. The significant rise in interest rates and the ongoing macroeconomic tensions and uncertainties are leading to restraint on the side of numerous players on the German real estate market. A significant reduction in dynamics on the transaction market by probably the end of Q3 2023 is therefore very likely.

Catella Wohnen Europa (CWE), the German public open-ended real estate fund, has acquired 67 affordable apartments, extending over almost 6,000 sqm, in eight energy-efficient wood-hybrid buildings in Pankow, Berlin’s most populous district located in the northeast of the city. The Falkenquartier development properties were purchased from property developer Falkowski Group and are due to be completed by Q4 2024.

Berlin-based Catella Residential Investment Management (CRIM) has appointed Alexandra Chevalier as Acquisition Manager of the Catella Elithis Energy- Positive Fund. The recently launched residential impact fund plans to invest €500 million in Elithis energy-positive residential buildings.

Antilooppi has divested an office property located at the address Takkatie 1 in the Pitäjänmäki submarket in Helsinki to Corum on 28 February 2023.

Catella Property Oy acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Senate-properties and SOK when they sold an office and logistics property located in Kuopio with a total area of more than 15,000 square meters.

French trade credit insurer COFACE has committed to the Catella European Residential III Fund, one of Europe’s largest cross-border residential investment vehicles with a strong focus on affordable housing and CO2 reduction.

Munich / Stockholm, 22 February 2023: Catella Real Estate AG (CREAG), Munich, is pleased to announce the sale of an office building in Stockholm’s central business district on behalf of the fund “Sarasin Sustainable Properties – European Cities”. The buyer of the property is DEAS Asset Management on behalf of Nordea Life & Pensions Sweden.

From a strong property market to uncertain times Year 2022 was a year of change that marked the end of a longterm strong property investment market. The change is due to the war in Ukraine, which rapidly increased inflation and eventually interest rates to a much higher level than had become the norm. Transaction market was really strong during the first half of the year, but an exceptionally radical turn took place in the summer, and the rest of the year was challenging in terms of property investments.

Munich, 15 february 2023

Eduardo Guardiola Osborne, CEO of Catella AM Iberia and Gabriel Fernández Dusso and Eduardo Pérez Sarasíbar, Investment Director and Investment Manager respectively, will be attending this year's MIPIM. If you'd like to meet up, please get in touch. Looking forward to catching up in Cannes!

The Catella Elithis Energy Positive Fund (CEEPF) is the world’s first real estate investment vehicle to focus exclusively on residential developments which produce more energy from renewable sources than used by the buildings and tenants. The fund has acquired a 64 apartment project in Mulhouse, north-eastern France, to be developed by its partner Elithis Groupe, the French sustainable engineering company.

Norway’s municipal and public health sector occupational pension company KLP, the country’s largest, and a group of Institutional investors, have committed close to €100 million to the first closing of the Catella Elithis Energy Positive Fund (CEEPF).

Munich, February 03, 2023 - Catella Real Estate AG (CREAG) and Orange Investment Managers are acquiring the parking garage "Weg beim Jäger" at Hamburg Airport with 1,178 parking spaces for the open-ended real estate special AIF "Catella Parken Europa“. The long-term tenant of the parking facility, which was built in 2012, is Q-Park, one of the largest private providers of parking spaces in Europe. The seller is Parken & Immobilien Invest GmbH Hamburg.

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Catella Finland has been a leading advisor in healthcare and public-use property transactions during 2021-22 in Finland. Catella’s market share was over 50 percent of the transactions accomplished by advisors and total volume of the transactions nearly 700 million euros.

   Munich, 25th January 2023