News and Press releases

Spektri Business Park (“Spektri”) has reached a new level in sustainability and energy performance by achieving the internationally recognized BREEAM Excellent environmental certification.

Catella Group announces the appointment of Dominik Röhrich as Head of Investment Management. He will lead the Group’s Investment Management platform covering Fund and Asset Management operations across twelve European countries with over EUR 14 billion in assets under management. He will focus on driving pan-European growth, enhancing performance, and strengthening institutional partnerships. He will assume the position on 1 March 2026.

Catella Group announces the appointment of Dominik Röhrich as Head of Investment Management. He will lead the Group’s Investment Management platform covering Fund and Asset Management operations across twelve European countries with over EUR 14 billion in assets under management. He will focus on driving pan-European growth, enhancing performance, and strengthening institutional partnerships. He will assume the position on 1 March 2026.

Catella Investment Management (CIM), in partnership with Catella APAM Property Ltd. has acquired a student residential complex centrally located Liberties district of Dublin. The acquisition was made for the Article 9 fund Catella European Residential III (CER III), which now has a volume of approximately EUR 1.1 billion with nearly 4,000 residential units in 10 countries. 

The CREDI main index was 63.0 points, indicating improving real estate finance market, which has strengthened continuously since early 2024.

Catella has published a new European logistics map. The European Logistics Market Overview Q2 2025 covers 50 markets across 21 countries and provides an up-to-date overview of prime yields, rental levels, and each country’s reliance on exports and imports.

Catella Investment Management (CIM) has announced the acquisition of an existing residential complex comprising three fully-let buildings with a total of 192 apartments in northern Vienna. The transaction was carried out for the Article 9 fund Catella European Residential III. The residential property was built in 2014 in Vienna's 21st district, Floridsdorf.

Transaction volume during the first seven months of 2025 totaled approximately EUR 2.5 billion, 75% higher than a year earlier. The increase was not solely driven by large individual deals, as the number of transactions also grew by 40% compared to the previous year. Despite the recovery in the market, the transaction volume still remained around 20% below the five-year average.

Catella Investment Management GmbH (CIM) and the KVG platform Catella Real Estate AG (CREAG) have signed a long-term lease agreement for office and light industrial space in CUBE in Taufkirchen near Munich. Approximately 1,200 square meters have been leased to the aerospace company Spire Global. Spire Global develops, builds, and operates one of the world's largest constellations of multi-purpose satellites. Spire Global has locations in the US, Canada, Luxembourg, and the UK, and plans to establish its German branch in the CUBE. The new space will be used as offices and for development, assembly, and product testing.    

Catella Investment Management GmbH (CIM) and its AIFM platform Catella Real Estate AG have signed a long-term lease for approx. 2,000 square meters of retail space in the Depot Areal retail park in Tübingen with the organic food producer and retailer Alnatura. The new store, scheduled to open in early 2026, will become the largest organic food supermarket in Germany in terms of floor space. The Depot site comprises a total of approx. 10,279 square meters of lettable space and was acquired in 2020 for the open-ended real estate special fund “IWS II - Wirtschaftsregion Süddeutschland”. The lease term is 15 years.

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.