News and Press releases

Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance Company has sold a modern healthcare property in the city centre of Oulu to a fund managed by Swiss Life Asset Managers, which is dedicated to pan-European healthcare investments.

The Catella European Residential III Fund (CER III) has acquired a 177-unit fully rented student housing development in Leipzig, in the eastern German state of Saxony for around €23 million from the Family Office Drengenberg. This latest investment takes CER III’s total assets under management to EUR 800 million. The Fund is managed by Berlin-based Catella Residential Investment Management (CRIM).

Catella Corporate Finance Denmark has acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Catella Real Estate AG (CREAG) in the divestment of the 6000 square meters historical Rosenborg-Annex, with a prime location in the inner city of Copenhagen.

Catella has appointed Petteri Kokko, current Head of Transactions, as new Managing Director at Catella Corporate Finance Finland succeeding Antti Louko. Petteri Kokko will start his new position 1 July 2024.

The Catella European Residential III Fund (CER III) has, in cooperation with Catella Asset Management Oy, acquired a portfolio of 243 new-build apartments, six commercial units and 122 parking spaces in the Finnish cities of Helsinki, Tampere, Turku and Vantaa, for approximately €50 million from Oivat Kaupunkikodit Ky, a fund managed by eQ Asset Management Ltd.   

Helsinki, 30th May 2024 – Catella Residential Investment Management GmbH (CRIM) has acquired four residential properties for the Article 9 compliant ‘dark green’ investment fund Catella European Residential III (CER III). The properties were acquired from Oivat Kaupunkikodit Ky, managed by eQ Asset Management Ltd. The properties are located in Helsinki, Vantaa, Tampere and Turku in excellent locations close to daily services. Catella Asset Management Oy (Catella AM) will manage the portfolio.

Demand for housing in major European cities and urban centres remains high and is not being met by constrained construction supply, which is continuing to pushup rents. Following the downturn in recent quarters, the price trend for owner-occupied apartments is in a stabilization phase. High inflation is putting pressure on net household incomes and, together with the price trend of recent years and increased financing costs, is making private buyers much more cautious. These are the key findings of the latest Catella Residential Market Overview Q1/ 2024, which analyses the residential markets of 63 cities in 20 European countries.

Greenpoint, a multi-family housing complex in Copenhagen has achieved a double platinum certification, a first-of-its-kind achievement. The project has been awarded the first DGNB Platinum green-building rating for a Built-To-Rent project in Copenhagen, as well as the first WiredScore Home Platinum certificate in Denmark for its digital connectivity. The complex includes 445 affordable rental apartments designed for multi-generational living.

Jussi Artema joins Catella Asset Management Finland (CAM Finland) as Associate.

CORUM Origin and CORUM EURION (Corum) owns a Finnish real estate portfolio consisting of 21 properties with a total gross leasable area (GLA) of 142,000 sqm. The portfolio’s assets are located across Finland, and they are mainly leased to a single tenant on a long lease.

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.