Sweden — Aberdeen Asset Management will explore the opportunity to divest Aberdeen Residential Sweden AB’s property portfolio. “We have established a prime residential portfolio with high quality assets and we have reached the planned size of the portfolio. The fund’s newly constructed assets are completed and we have improved the NOI in the portfolio.” explains the Fund Manager Fredrik Eliasson.

Nordic — Sweden has, according to a report from Leimdörfer, been Europe´s most liquid commercial property market for the past decade.

Finland — SRV has sold the health and wellbeing centre it is developing in Kalasatama, Helsinki. The buyer is a special fund managed by Deka Immobilien.

Sweden — A new Swedish real estate company, founded by amongst others Lennart Sten, former Europe Manager at GE Capital Real Estate, purchases 44 retail properties from Areim.

Sweden — Oscar Properties purchases the Uppfinnaren 1 property – The Swedish Patent and Registration Office – on Östermalm in Stockholm, from Vasakronan for MSEK 650 (€ 70 M).

Finland — YIT sells the Lauttasaari shopping centre, Lauttis, in Helsinki to Aberdeen European Balanced Property Fund. The total value of the agreement is over €40M.

Sweden — Deka Immobilien GmbH has concluded the sale of an office building in Solna, part of the Stockholm metropolitan area in Sweden.

Sweden — Private Equity firm Mengus’ first fund (Mengus 2005) sells the office property kv. Aprikosen 2, by Mengus named Solna Gate. The property encompasses approximately 35,000 sqm leasable area and is sold to Klövern at a underlying value of approximately SEK 1,2 billion (€130M).

Denmark — Sveafastigheter Fund III, in cooperation with local asset management partner North Property Asset Management, has divested 70 condominiums in Copenhagen to Bouwfonds Investment Management.