Finland — AEW has acquired two residential properties in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area on behalf of a German pension fund. The properties comprise a total of 87 rental apartments and 5,018 square meters of leasable space.

Denmark — NREP has become the new co-owner and capital partner to Tetris A/S. NREP will amongst others help expand the VoksenPlus concept across the Denmark by funding an ambitious 5-year pipeline of 15 locations, totalling 80,000 sq.m and 1,000 rental units.

Finland — Union Investment acquires a multi-tenant property with 12 tenants comprising 5,700 sqm of rental space for UniInstitutional European Real Estate fund.

Denmark — Catella Residential Investment Management GmbH (CRIM), the pan-European investor in residential properties, has acquired around 300 apartments for about EUR 117 million, divided between three deals in Aarhus in Denmark, Tilburg in The Netherlands and Hamburg in Germany, under a single investment mandate for a southern German pension fund.

Sweden — Stadsrum Fastigheter acquires the properties Dragarbrunn 23:1 and Dragarbrunn 23:3 (commonly known as Åhlénshuset) in Uppsala from Axfast.

Sweden — The global real estate investor Invesco Real Estate, together with its local partner in the Nordic region Scius Partners, acquires the office property Skålen 24 in Hagastaden, Stockholm from SEB Trygg Liv.

Sweden — Catella strengthens their retail offer by adding former the Agora and Steen & Strøm CEO as a Senior Advisor.

Sweden — Atrium Ljungberg and Folksam are selling properties to each other in a swap worth SEK 3.7 billion (EUR 335M).

Finland — Tradeka has sold three hotel properties to two different buyers: Investors House and a privately owned Finnish real estate investment company.

Sweden — Sigillet expands their portfolio by acquiring a building on Östermalm in Stockholm.

Finland — VVT Property Fund I Ky has bought a logistics property close to Helsinki Airport from Union Investment. The entire 6 600 square meter building is leased to Dayton Group.

Finland — Corum Asset Management has acquired Skanska's headquarters in the Ruskeasuo area of Helsinki from Union Investment.

Sweden — Barings Real Estate acquires the office building Fleming 7 in Stockholm CBD from Menugs as part of its pan European core investment strategy on behalf of institutional investors for over EUR 100M.

Finland — FinCap has sold one residential and one assisted living property located in Turku and Tampere. The properties were divested from funds managed by FinCap to Nordea Life Assurance Finland Ltd.

Finland — Finland’s real estate investment market remained exceptionally active until the end of 2017. As a result, a record-high transaction volume was achieved for the second year in a row. This time, the new record came to around EUR 10 billion, which was driven by a few major deals and strong demand by international investors. This according to the Catella Market Indicator.

Finland — Exilion sells a landmark office property in Keilaniemi to a fund managed by Deutsche Asset Management. The transaction is one of the biggest individual office property deals in Finland in 2017.

Sweden — Two hundred clients of Catella and its distributor partners have subscribed for shares in newly formed company Tre Kronor Property Investment AB (publ), which through a subsidiary has acquired a portfolio of 72 grocery properties in southern Sweden.

Denmark — The international pharmaceutical company H. Lundbeck A/S has divested part of the headquarters in Valby, Copenhagen, no longer needed for their operations.