diff --git a/src/caosdb/apiutils.py b/src/caosdb/apiutils.py
index bd279fcfe5c394b9b5cff787169cff5b9f2d3031..2d4a4a0f171ed7f97252efb99b7a55758720fdf5 100644
--- a/src/caosdb/apiutils.py
+++ b/src/caosdb/apiutils.py
@@ -244,6 +244,8 @@ class CaosDBPythonEntity(object):
             return (val, False)
         elif pr[0:4] == "LIST":
             return self._type_converted_list(val, pr)
+        elif isinstance(val, Entity):
+            return (convert_to_python_object(val), False)
         else:
             return (int(val), True)
 
diff --git a/unittests/test_property.py b/unittests/test_property.py
index 8b2deeb4b06cfbf3d42881201307a1e2122124e3..752ee01f0eafef14dbffd1e62c99d1c816c45d05 100644
--- a/unittests/test_property.py
+++ b/unittests/test_property.py
@@ -84,3 +84,8 @@ def test_get_property_with_entity():
     p = Property(id=1234)
     r.add_property(id=1234, value="bla")
     assert r.get_property(p).value == "bla"
+
+
+def test_selected_reference_list():
+    assert len(testrecord.get_property("Conductor").value) == 1
+    assert isinstance(testrecord.get_property("Conductor").value[0], Entity)
diff --git a/unittests/test_record.xml b/unittests/test_record.xml
index e961bdc6b88eb8e62b92696b52d7ad6a2dbf8089..018c747c11027a2c3996c65d1deab1d18514e17b 100644
--- a/unittests/test_record.xml
+++ b/unittests/test_record.xml
@@ -328,4 +328,10 @@
     <Value>45531</Value>
     <Value>45532</Value>
   </Property>
+  <Property datatype="LIST&lt;Person&gt;" description="DESCRIBE ME!" id="1634561234" importance="FIX" name="Conductor">
+    <Value>
+      <Record id="23456543">
+      </Record>
+    </Value>
+  </Property>
 </Record>
diff --git a/unittests/test_utils.py b/unittests/test_utils.py
index f308445ed1a06331a54ebf67411dc154836557ca..42d18ba06eb7516bb318de54cb537f548cfe9081 100644
--- a/unittests/test_utils.py
+++ b/unittests/test_utils.py
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
 """Tests for caosdb.common.utils."""
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 from lxml.etree import Element
-from nose.tools import assert_equals as eq
 from caosdb.common.utils import xml2str
 
 
@@ -32,4 +31,4 @@ def test_xml2str():
     name = 'Björn'
     element = Element(name)
     serialized = xml2str(element)
-    eq(serialized, "<Björn/>\n")
+    assert serialized == "<Björn/>\n"