Sweden — To meet a new reality with changing office needs, Skanska Fastigheter is launching a pilot project with a sharing-based business model. In Sthlm 3:2, two companies will share office spaces and dispose of them two and three days respectively per week. Sofie Hjort, project manager at Skanska Fastigheter, tells Nordic Property News about the project, how the companies will be combined, what the rental picture will look like for the actors involved and about the future of the model after the initial test period.

Sweden — Skanska takes a big step in the work of building up its own management portfolio, by selling the Citygate office property in Gothenburg to its own Investment Property branch. Ida Granqvist, Investment Properties Manager at Skanska Fastigheter, tells Nordic Property News about why Citygate is a good fit for the company, about the importance of having also established itself on the Gothenburg market, about the next step for the Investment Properties business and how the first period since she assumed her new position has been.

Nordic — Skanska's Commercial Real Estate Development had a busy 24 hours earlier this week when they closed two major sales for a total of approximately SEK 2 billion. After the sales in Poland and Denmark, Claes Larsson, Executive Vice President and responsible for commercial development at Skanska, tells Nordic Property News more about how the divestments came about and how the company continues to work on the transaction market.

Sweden — Skanska increased the number of homes sold and constructions started during the first quarter of the year, but from very low levels. The company is under pressure in the low-price segment, where Boklok made a loss of SEK 146 million. CEO Anders Danielsson finds it encouraging that the development has nevertheless started to go in the right direction and now hopes that the Riksbank's interest rate cut will give a lift to the pressured segment.

Sweden — The American portfolio is Skanska's weakest market at the moment and drives the large write-downs in value announced by the company. CEO Anders Danielsson and CFO Magnus Persson expand on the difficulties in valuing the stock and the major challenges in the US that slow down Skanska's development in the US market.