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Ylva Sarby Westman is to be the new CFO of Kungsleden. Ylva will remain the Group’s Deputy CEO. At the same time, Kungsleden’s management team will be strengthened by the addition of Fredrik Sandell, the company’s current Treasurer.

“The only good news for stationary retail is that the “digital natives” (can) seize their opportunities only to a certain extent.”

“How an old fable about the importance of unity can help center landlords and tenants thrive in the face of the coronavirus crisis.”

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic AFI Europe, the largest shopping center project to be delivered this year in Romania will not be opened as planned.

“After the first soft measures in early March, a curfew restriction was imposed in Hungary from March 28 until April 11. Together with the compulsory closing of all non-food shops at 3:00 PM this has had a huge impact on the retail sector.”

Propel by MIPIM 2020, (previously PropTech Europe), the leading European business event for the real estate and innovation ecosystems, has been rescheduled to September 14-15 due to concerns related to the coronavirus.

The decision of the authorities to temporarily suspend the purchase of goods considered non-essential from the shopping centers affects more than 9,000 stores and each day when they are closed equals with between 15 and 20 million euros lost from unearned income, according to an analysis made by the real estate consulting company Cushman & Wakefield Echinox.

Under the umbrella of Croatian Employers Association (CEA), the Coordination of non-food retail and shopping centers has been organized upon the initiative of the Developers Association and Retail Association both under CEA in Zagreb on March 26, 2020.

“Once this pandemic is over, our customers will be hungry for all that they were deprived of during the crisis. Brands and landlords need to be prepared to show that online shopping is just a substitute for the great experience you have while visiting shopping centers.”

“Let’s create and open a virtual Madrid, Paris, Budapest, Vienna, Munich, Milan or Venice for our avatars, virus-free, with the recovered turquoise lagoon, a crowded Piazza San Marco, hundreds of flying doves, etc.”

What we are experiencing these days is unprecedented. Unprecedented in terms of the changes that will come. Unprecedented in regard to the question “how do we go on from here”, and also unprecedented when it comes to the constant as well as instant switches between optimism and sheer pessimism.

Josip Kardun has 20 years of pan-European real estate investment and management experience. He previously served as CEO of Blackstone’s largest European operating platform where he managed over €10 billion of assets across 14 countries.

MIPIM 2020, scheduled to take place June 2-5 in Cannes, is transforming into a two-day, Paris-based gathering of real estate and technology leaders in September and a new online experience, MIPIM Connect, available year-round.