Potential investors and new or expanding companies seeking for land can visit this database via our website and make searches on their own. This is a unique way of working and Göteborg Region is pleased to present it — all in the favour of developing and reinforcing our commercial and industrial life. The presenters of the database were Roger Strömberg, Head of Establishment and Investment at Business Region Göteborg, together with Bengt Christensson from the Göteborg Region Local Government Federation. 
 
Click her for the database

In today's global hard scrabbled economic situation, the developing plans for Göteborg Region are still vast. This became apparent at this Local Property Market Day. The current conditions of the region were discussed as well as its close future.
 
Christer Abrahamsson, Manager from Göteborg Real Estate Office, highlighted some of the current building projects in the city core of Göteborg, which is a prioritised area in the regions common Growth Strategy for 2020. Big port areas will be transformed into central urban environments — it will be prepared for a total of 30 000 new residents and 40 000 new jobs. According to Mr. Abrahamsson, it will be an increased building tempo for Göteborg. He states that Göteborg has potential and possibilities like no other city in Europe have.
 
Göteborg Region has lately received much attention due to given awards as the best region for small enterprises. The leader of the study European Cities Entrepreneurship Ranking, Loïc Maherault from Altidiem, France, attended the conference to tell more details about the study of the 27 European cities. Earlier this year the region received three awards as Europe's leading region for new business creation and entrepreneurship. Mr. Maherault states that this is an asset which cannot be overrated:
 
“The entrepreneurship and its presumptions are fundamental key factors for economic growth for all regions in Europe. It is very important that enterprisers perceive a connective, border-crossing support from all actors in the region." Maherault showed graphs over top judgments given by the region's entrepreneurs."

Take part of Maherault's presentation and the ECER-ranking here

Petra Sedelius, Investment Manager at Business Region Göteborg, presented a finalised survey among some of the region's foreign owned companies. The aim was to find out how these companies/managers perceive the commercial and industrial life and, in addition, the general living and working life of Göteborg Region. The number of foreign owned companies in the region keeps increasing, today the region has over 2 000 foreign owned companies.            
           
Fredrik Sjöholm was another appreciated speaker. He is a professor at the Institute for commercial and industrial research. Sjöholm shared his knowledge of years of research about foreign owned companies and FDI and its effect on the domestic market when it comes to economic growth, labour market, etc.
      
As usual on this annual conference, the report on the Local Property Market was handed out. This contains the latest information about vacancies, transaction volumes, new ongoing projects with focus on Logistics, Office, Retail and Industry. Overall, according to Pär Abrahamsson at Jones Lang LaSalle, there is a stable and strong real estate business in Göteborg Region.

For the English version of the report, click here .
For the Swedish version of the report, click here.

The number of attendees added up to over 300 this day at SAS Radisson Hotel in downtown Göteborg. Business Region Göteborg would like to thank all participants and speakers.

We look forward to next year's Local Property Market Day!