RES founder and chief executive Manfredi Catella has increased his shares in the vehicle, the first Italian REIT to emerge without conversion.

, Coima RES invests in and manages commercial real estate in Italy.

The overall investment of Manfredi Catella, Coima Srl and COIMA SGR in COIMA RES is now more than €3m.

CONSOB, Italy’s market authority, approved Coima RES’s listing on the Milan stock exchange in .

The total value of the IPO was around €215m.

Backed by the Qatar Investment Authority, Milan-based Coima  to raise €330m for the vehicle.

Qatar Holding gave the vehicle a portfolio of 96 assets leased to Deutsche Bank as bank branches, in return for shares in the REIT.

The sovereign wealth fund took a 40% stake in the largest development in Milan, â€™s 290,000sqm Porta Nuova scheme, in 2013, buying the remainder last year. 

Coima RES was first established to become an SIIQ in June last year.