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1/26/2024
Varmt välkomna till våran Q4-rapport och bokslutskommitté. Det här är Johanna Hultgren som pratar, vd, och med mig har jag dig, Fredrik.
Fredrik Sjölin, CFO, och nu presenterar vi vår kommunikation för 2023.
Om vi då ska summera det här året så är vi otroligt glada över det här fina driftsöverskottet som är vårt högsta hittills. We have increased to over 1.1 billion, and it is of course a lot of hard work from the organization to reach those figures. We also have a positive net sales for Q4, which is 6 million, and this year it is 44 million. Of these 6 million, a lot of it is in our administrative staff, which is important in this market, and I will come back to that. The surplus increases to 78%. And when we look at our leg industry and logistics, we have 133,000 square meters that are completed and moved here during the year. And of course, it contributes very nicely with a good direct discount and complement to our office stock. I think we will win the whole industry in 2023 due to the unrealized negative value changes that we have taken up. That was the challenge for this year. We have adjusted to minus 1.3 billion under 2023. Our board proposes a share of 2 kronor per share. As you know, we are a Gothenburg-focused company. This is where we have our entire stock. I will tell you a little bit about how the economic activity in Gothenburg looks right now. We are in a low-conjuncture like the rest of Sweden. 100 is what you usually call a normal conjucture, so we went to 88.2. With that said, we actually feel that we have a fairly uneven market based on the production industry, which we are very dependent on, and it is also very export-focused. It's going well. It has even turned slightly upwards, so it's at almost 105 in this last quarter. And the industries that are struggling are construction, trade and the service sector, above all. Tittar vi på Göteborgs näringsliv och ekonomi som sådant så har vi då en situation där vi har en tillväxt under 23 på 1,5% och det som förespås framåt här ifrån Business Region Göteborg som gör sina analyser utifrån Konjunkturinstitutets rapporter så ser vi då en tillväxt på 1,4% i de exportviktat då i de tio viktigaste marknaderna. And the exports are increasing. The USA is doing well, and it affects our region a lot. Europe is doing a little worse. And inflation and interest rates, as you know, are going down. But we also have a city that is growing. From 2021 to October 23, the city has grown with 33,000 new employment opportunities. And that, of course, drives a lot of the office sector for us. Vi kommer ifrån en ganska bra sysselsättning, en väldigt hög tillväxttakt i Göteborg. Här ser vi de nivåerna som ligger från 2009 till 2022. De släpar ju alltid ett år de här tyvärr. Tillväxttakten har legat på 72% i regional BNP. Då ska man jämföra med 17% för Eurozonen och Stockholm ligger ju någonstans på So we are coming from high levels, but of course we are feeling the low-conjuncture. Combined with the fact that we have a newly produced stock that came out of the office here during 2022. I'm talking about this for those of you who were with us during our presentation as well. Then 175,000 square meters were released on the market. And what we can see from this is, of course, that we get a flight to quality, where many companies move to these new office buildings, which in principle are actually full now. Therefore, it is very, very important for us when we talk about the opportunities to rent out in our existing office space in offices. These 14.5 million that we put here in Q4 are 13 million i vårt befintliga stock av kontor. Och det är klart att det är för oss viktigt i den här marknaden, för det är där vi har konkurrensen. Vi känner inte sådär jättetydligt av en försvagning i marknaden, inte heller på hyresnivåerna, de ligger i princip still. So, we can't see any very clear evidence of tax evasion yet, but we are also satisfied that there is an increased risk of rent impact in the coming quarters, especially if we get companies on non-existence. So with that said, and a growing city at about 11,000 per year when it comes to increased employment, we also see that this peak is going to plan out. And the latest reports here from Citymark, which they have done and directed to the office market, show that De projekt som ligger framåt och den vakansgrad som ligger idag kommer vara uppe ett om tio år. Det motsvarar ungefär 522 000 kvadratmeter som kommer behövas på marknaden i den tillväxttakt som staden går. I vårt eget bestånd så ligger vår ekonomiska uthyrningsgrad kvar på 92% och den kvadratmetervakansgraden har faktiskt sjunkit i... i fyra av sju delområden för oss. Totalt ligger vakansgraden i Göteborg idag på 11 procent, ska jag säga. Stockholm och Malmö ligger ju någonstans mellan 10 och 12 också. Men för oss i Göteborg är 11 procent en hög nivå. Och därav är vi ju då fokuserade väldigt mycket på kund. Kvartalets nettutgivning, 6 miljoner har jag pratat om. And then it is almost final in our full-owned administration of offices that the rents have occurred. We have an average rent increase in the negotiations that we have done during the year, which is 12%. I know you will ask about that. And the rent growth has increased by a total of 18%, 224 million kronor during the year. These are our ten largest customers. What we should keep an eye on here is that we have extended the time for our remaining contract period. It is now 52 months in our contract period. 23% of our tenants are public businesses. And when we talk about this with customers and revenue, which is incredibly important for us, I want to hand it over to you, Fredrik. You're going to talk a little bit about net of change.
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