Sweden — Regio has acquired seven centrally located office and retail properties with a lettable area of approximately 70,000 square meters in central Jönköping. The underlying property value amounts to SEK 2.13 billion (EUR 203M).

Sweden — Alma Property Partners acquires a 23,000 sqm industry property in Ljungby close to the E4 highway.

Denmark — PWC moves its Danish headquarters to Marmormolen, where By & Havn has just sold the building rights.

Sweden — Invesco Real Estate, together with its Nordic partner Scius Partners, acquires a 10,000 sqm retail property in Helsingborg from Grosvenor Europe.

Denmark — Capman acquires 340 in Risskov, Aarhus, from Domis.

Denmark — CBRE Global Investment Partners announces the acquisition of Sølvgade Complex Student Accommodation, Copenhagen.

Sweden — Victoria Park purchases a apartment property portfolio of a total of 1938 apartments, with a leasable area of approximately 138,000 sqm, located in Malmö and Karlskrona.

Sweden — Starwood Capital Group, a leading global private investment firm, and Vencom, through separately controlled affiliates, sells six retail parks and shopping gallerias in Sweden to Trophi Fastighets AB, a company managed by Redito and owned by the Swedish pension fund AP3.

Sweden — Universum’s annual survey Företagsbarometern has now been made. Swedish university students have been asked about their future dream employers. The results show that Akademiska Hus is the Master of Science Engineering students’ favorite within real estate management while Svenska Bostäder is more popular within the Bachelor of Engineering students.

Sweden — Robert Fonovich has been elected CEO at Catella’s Swedish Corporate Finance department. He most recently had the roll as Sweden and Sector Manager in the area of Corporate Finance Real Estate at PWC and has more than 15 years of experience as leader within real estate advisory. He will replace Johan Ericsson who has been acting CEO since Anders Nordvall’s departure this fall.

Sweden — A positive picture is painted by the predecessors to the Swedish real estate market in this year’s edition of PWC’s Fastighetstempen (Property thermometer). More than 70 percent of the respondents believe in increased rental income for the industry. They also believe in rising property prices, increased investments and more than half of the surveyed companies will hire new employees during the twelve upcoming months.