News and Press releases

Catella APAM, the specialist UK real estate asset manager, is pleased to announce a new letting at 100 – 106 Kensington High Street, on behalf of its client, High Street Properties Investment Ltd.

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 har indgået en aftale om at sælge Kaktus Towers i det centrale København. Quantum har erhvervet ejendommen på vegne af en institutionel investor. Transaktionen er baseret på en underliggende ejendomsværdi på 2,1 mia. SEK og forventes at bidrage med knap 260 mio. SEK til Catellas EBIT for aktionærerne i 2025 efter transaktionsomkostninger. Transaktionen forventes gennemført i løbet af andet kvartal 2025.

Catella expands its existing development activities in Greater Copenhagen, Denmark and initiates construction of 269 affordable apartments in a joint venture with diversified real estate investment manager Barings. The project, named Vega, delivers affordability and social sustainability to a fast-growing suburb of Copenhagen.

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.

The downward trend in real estate transaction volume continued in 2024. Since the increase in interest rates, which began in the summer of 2022, transaction volumes have been exceptionally low, and capital allocation into real estate has been minimal compared to previous years. The real estate transaction volume was only around EUR 2.0 billion in 2024, matching levels seen in the years following the financial crisis.

We are excited to announce CAM Finland's recent recruit - Tomi Nieminen as Asset Manager.

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 has appointed Otto Rompelman as new Managing Director at Catella Investment Management Benelux (CIMB). Otto Rompelman will take up his new position 1 April, 2025.

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.

Catella Asset Management acted as Pontos Group's advisor in a sales project involving four properties. The total lettable area of the properties sold exceeded 23,000 square meters and included logistics and retail properties. The assets were located in various towns across Finland.

We are excited to share that Fanni Hirvinen has been appointed Associate as of January 2025.

We are thrilled to announce that Teemu Pykälämäki has joined CAM Finland as of January 2025.

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.