Skanska sells the Gullbergsvass 5:26 property in the Tennet block in Gothenburg, Sweden, for SEK 630 M

Skanska has, as previously announced, signed a conditional agreement for the sale of the property Gullbergsvass 5:26 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The buyer is Platzer, and the conditions of the agreement have now been fulfilled. The property value is about SEK 630 M, and the transaction will be recorded in the fourth quarter of 2013. The transfer is scheduled to take place in December 2013.

The office building on Kilsgatan, close to the central station in Gothenburg, has been completed during the autumn, with a total leasable area of about 16,700 square meters. The building has a high environmental standard with several environmental and climate-smart solutions, such as solar cells to decrease the net consumption of electricity. The building has been pre-certified to LEED Platinum and EU Green Building, which means that the building’s energy consumption will be more than 25 percent lower than the standard requirements for new buildings.

Skanska Commercial Development Nordic initiates and develops property projects in offices, logistics, business premises and commercial buildings. The company’s operations are concentrated in the three metropolitan regions in Sweden, the Copenhagen region in Denmark, the Oslo region in Norway, as well as Helsinki in Finland. The development of logistics and volume retail properties is conducted in strategic locations in Sweden, Denmark and Finland.

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Micko Pettersson, Managing Director, Skanska Fastigheter Göteborg, tel: +46 10 448 45 33

Edvard Lind, Head of Media Relations, Skanska AB, tel: +46 (0)10-448 88 08

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Skanska is one of the world’s leading project development and construction groups with expertise in construction, development of commercial and residential premises, and public-private partnership projects. Based on its global green experience, Skanska aims to be the client’s first choice for green solutions. The group currently has 57,000 employees in selected home markets in Europe, the US and Latin America. Skanska's sales in 2012 totaled SEK 132 billion.