SBB began the week by expanding its review of strategic options, which was said to include a sale of the entire company or one of the companies' business segments, which includes SBB's community properties.

According to Dagens industri, major Swedish institutional investors received calls from the Government Office this weekend, where the Ministry of Finance asked questions about their views on the real estate market.

"According to Di's information, the ministry inquired, among other things, about the interest in buying so-called community properties, i.e. properties that are used by, and are adapted for, tax-financed activities," writes Di.

SBB should not have been mentioned by name in the talks, however, it says, but no other large Swedish owner of community properties is under similar pressure to sell assets, the newspaper notes.

"We have had a dialogue with various institutional owners to form an idea of how the market views the situation, and we have had it in the near term," says Financial Markets Minister Niklas Wykman (M), to Di.