Nordic — Heimstaden's long-standing CEO Patrik Hall will leave the operational role at the turn of the year and instead continue as Senior Advisor and member of the Group Investment Committee within the company. He tells Nordic Property News about the decision and the future within the company. He also comments on the company's Q3 report, the challenges ahead and the large bond maturities that await in the next two years.

Nordic — Nordic Property News has listed the Nordic real estate companies’ preferred stocks. Which stock provides the highest yield and which stock has had the best development, so far, in 2022?

Sweden — SLP's CEO Peter Strand hopes to find clips in the pending transaction market that has fully developed into a buyer's market. He tells Nordic Property News more about the hopes, the strength of the leases and the journey of the share since the listing seven months ago.

Finland — Jarkko Leinonen, Head of Finland at Hemsö: “We have deals in pipeline, so overall it is business as usual for us in Finland.“

Sweden — Jennifer Eriksson, Head of Leasing Gothenburg at Croisette, tells Nordic Property News about the interest in the office space in Ramsbury's new Gothenburg project, the importance of the investment for Gothenburg's CBD and about the office rental market in the new economic climate.

Sweden — Castellum's CEO Rutger Arnhult announces that Castellum has recently changed its transaction strategy and will start taking steps that it "normally doesn't do". Here he tells more about the assets that may be sold, the view on the holding in Entra and if he can see himself increasing his holdings in Castellum in the future.

Nordic — A number of executive positions are vacant on the Nordic market.

Nordic — Has increased holdings by 36 percentage points in 2022.

Norway — Entra’s CEO Sonja Horn tells Nordic Property News about the Norwegian investment market, why we see a limited number of transactions in Q3, and reasons behind the strong rental income figures.

Sweden — Prologis strengthens the transaction focus with the appointment of Fredrik Kihlström as Capital Deployment Manager. He tells Nordic Property News about the Prologis ambitions in Sweden, how he views the logistics market and how he believes it will develop going forward.

Nordic — Nordic Property News presents an updated list of the foreign holdings in the Nordic listed real estate companies.

Sweden — Increased their respective shares in Platzer during the third quarter.

Nordic — Martin Grimm Strømme, Investment Manager at Swiss Life Asset Managers Nordic, tells Nordic Property News about the development since the acquisition of NRP, Nordic targets, and why the Finnish office market is of great interest for the pan-European investor.

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.”