Sweden — City of Gothenburg's real estate office and Älvstranden Utveckling are reviewing the possibility of transferring an almost 200,000 square meter property in Gullbergsvass from Älvstranden Utveckling to the City of Gothenburg.

Sweden — Catella's Head of Research, Arvid Lindqvist, shared a gloomy picture of the economy in general and the real estate sector in particular with continued losses on the stock market and companies with a large residential stock facing particularly challenging times.

Nordic — At the end of October 2021, Heimstaden received final approval for the acquisition of Akelius' property portfolios in Germany, Denmark and Sweden. Almost a year later, Heimstaden's CEO Patrik Hall looks back on the huge 92 billion acquisition and the, in hindsight, "perfectly wrong timing" for the purchase. He also says how they view the future of the Akelius-portfolio today.

Nordic — CEO Eivind Hjulstad: “Stockholm has been at the top of our list since we started the expansion of Citybox outside Norway.”

Sweden — Åsa Hedenberg leaves her position as CEO of Specialfastigheter during 2023.

Nordic — Pontus Flemme Gärdsell, Head of Nordics at Cromwell Property Group: “Obviously, the competition is strong with a lot of capital entering the logistics sector.”

Nordic — Nordic Property News presents which of the listed Nordic construction and real estate companies that have the best yields. Here is the complete list.

Sweden — Anders Liljenstolpe recently started his new role as the new CEO of CBRE's Advisory Services in Sweden. He has a long and solid background in the real estate industry, where he held top positions in several companies in Russia after having worked in the country since 2006. He tells Nordic Property News about the decision to leave Russia after the country's invasion of Ukraine and how he intends to leave his mark on the Swedish market for CBRE.

Norway — Fabian Søbak, CEO of Self Storage Group: “The general inflation is impacting self storage.”

Nordic — On Thursday last week, Akelius bought 40 million shares in Castellum from M2 Asset Management for SEK 4.6 billion, a deal that corresponds to 12.2 percent of the total number of shares in Castellum. The transaction makes Akelius the largest owner in Castellum, while the sale means that Rutger Arnhult reduces his ownership to 6.1 percent and becomes the second largest owner. Akelius CEO Ralf Spann tells Nordic Property News about the thinking behind the big purchase, what the ambition looks like with the holding and what other types of investment they are looking at.

Sweden — A new company enters the Swedish housing market. With a strong team behind it, Covitum takes the first step with an investment in Boden. The CEO and founder Ingvor Sundbom tells Nordic Property News about the venture, the growth ambitions and about Balder’s Erik Selin joining as the main owner.

Finland — Sampsa Apajalahti, Investment Director at Capman Real Estate: “We want to be in the forefront by developing assets that meet the demands of the future.”

Denmark — DWS continues to invest in the Nordic markets. After the acquisition of Bella Tower, Martin Weikamp, Head of Real Estate Transactions for the Nordics, tells Nordic Property News about the company’s desire for more Danish residential investments, where it looks for investments, what other segments are of interest, and about DWS’ appetite for the other Nordic markets.

Sweden — Akelius is back on the Swedish market through the giant acquisition of 12.2 percent shares in Castellum from Rutger Arnhult. Roger Akelius shares his thoughts on the transaction with Nordic Property News.

Sweden — One of the biggest deals of the year is a annouces as the Folksam Group, through KPA Pension, buys Vasahuset in central Stockholm for SEK 3 billion from DNB. Lars Johnsson, Property Director at the Folksam Group, tells Nordic Property News about the transaction, the company's real estate strategy and where they look for new acquisitions.

Nordic — Nordic Property News lists the largest transactions in the Nordics during September, 2022.

Nordic — It was a quite third quarter in the transaction market, but there were still som big deals made that exceeded 1 billion SEK in transaction volume. Here Nordic Property News presents the largest transactions in the Nordics during Q3.

Nordic — Independent pan-European real estate investment manager MARK is set to expand the urban logistics platform Crossbay into the Sweden and Denmark. The company tells Nordic Property News about the appeal of the Swedish and Danish markets, where it looks for acquisitions and about the competition in the sector.

Sweden — It was a quite third quarter in the transaction market, but there were still som big deals made that exceeded 1 billion SEK in transaction volume. Here Nordic Property News presents the largest transactions in Sweden during Q3.

Sweden — A major investment is being carried out in Karlstad when Färjestad is to be developed with 100,000 new square meters consisting of housing, offices, commerce and parking. Tomas Rhöse, CEO of Löfbergs Fastigheter, tells Nordic Property News about the work with the area, what it means for Karlstad's future and about the most important parts of the process going forward.

Nordic — Verdion launches a second fund that will raise EUR 400M. With the new fund underway, Nordic Property News catches up with Peter Michael Tetzlaff, Head of Investment – Nordics at Verdion, about the state of the company’s current projects and the Nordic logistics market.

Sweden — Annica Ånäs believes in three tough years ahead for the real estate industry and at the same time she feels that many business leaders still have their blinders on when it comes to the economic crisis. At Fastighetsmarknadsdagen Uppsala, Atrium Ljungberg's CEO shared more about how she sees the challenges ahead with more difficult financing and approaching interest rate shocks.

Nordic — Nordic Property News has the complete list of how the Nordic real estate and construction companies performed on the stock exchange in September.

Nordic — Nordic Property News lists the people who was recruited to the most attractive jobs in the Nordic real estate market during the third quarter of 2022.

Norway — Rikard Henriksson, Managing Partner at Niam: “We believe there will be some acquisition opportunities in 2023.”