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Partners in real estate

At Carucel, we’re open to different types of cooperation, including partial ownership. Carucel operates and develops select properties in cooperation with other Norwegian and international real estate companies. One of our biggest partners is the American company Madison International Realty (Madison). By working in close cooperation with skilled and reliable partners over time, we operate more efficiently, identify more opportunities, and yield greater results.

Madison

Madison International Realty (Madison) was founded in 2002 and is a leading international real estate investment platform with offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Frankfurt, Luxembourg and Amsterdam.
Carucel has a close relationship with Madison from several years of cooperation on joint projects such as the development of the Oslobukta street level, and later, the housing venture Carucel Living.

Birk&Co

Birk & Co AS is a real estate developer established in November 2015.
The company develops original, high-quality residences with the lowest possible greenhouse gas emissions. Among other things, the company has developed and completed several FutureBuilt projects. One of these is Fyrstikkbakken 14, which consists of 163 apartments and includes new social living arrangements such as divorce apartments and shared apartments. We have an active ownership stake in the company, and we share office premises in Oslo.

Front Real Estate

Front Real Estate purchases, manages, and develops commercial properties and residential projects in partnership with other professional players.
The company consists of a dedicated team with broad real estate experience in property management and holds ownership stakes in about 65,000 square metres in office space, commerce, hospitality, warehousing, and light industry. The properties sit at central locations in Oslo and Drammen. Carucel is a proud and active owner through the management company Front Real Estate AS.

AKTO

AKTO Eiendom AS is a property management company established in 2018.
The company offers services in technical administration, property operations, project management, building supervisor services, tenant advising, and energy and environmental management. Among other things, the company manages all of Carucel’s properties in Oslo and Viken.

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Torbjörn Karlsson
CIO/CFO
Director of Living & Leisure
Pierre Puggaard
Projects
Managing director
Hege Brattlid
Projects
Eiendom
Camilla Lilledahl
Projects
Property management head
Fredrik Lekven Lien
Projects
Team lead @Alva
André Sannerhaugen
Projects
Property management head
Joachim Wolf Stensland
Projects
Christian Østby
Projects
Board chairperson
Carl Erik Krefting
  • Founder of Carucel, with over 30 years of experience as a real estate investor.

  • Before founding Carucel, Carl Erik Krefting was part of the founding of Søylen Eiendom.

  • Krefting has spent more than 20 years as a partner of the law firm Thommessen Krefting Greve Lund (Thommessen) and holds a cand.jur. from the University of Oslo (UiO)

Board member
Caroline Krefting
  • The head of real estate investment and development at Carucel since December 2016

  • Experience as Asset Management Officer at Steen & Strøm and Associate of both Deal Advisory and Audit at KPMG.

  • Krefting has a master’s degree in applied economics and finance and a bachelor’s degree in business management from the Copenhagen Business School

Board member
Kjersti Hobøl
  • Administrative director of the retail company Nille

  • Experience as board member of XXL, Aspelin Ramm, Byggmax and Elektroimportøren

  • Broad experience from a background in the boards of retail companies and many other leadership positions

Board member
Hans Petter Høegh
  • Finance director of Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Group and administrative director of KGJ Eiendom.

  • Wide-ranging board experience from real estate firms such as Søylen, Winta Eiendom, and BSA Berlin, as well as from investment companies such as Procerta AS.

  • Høegh has held multiple positions as finance director and holds a master’s degree in economics and administration from Université de Lausanne

Board member
John Giverholt
  • His experience includes the position of administrative director of Ferd, group director of DNB, and assistant finance director at Hydro

  • Wide-ranging board experience from organisations such as Kongsberg-Gruppen, Telenor, Scatec Solar, and Gjensidige

  • Giverholt has a bachelor’s degree in economics from University of Manchester and is a state-authorised auditor from the NHH Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)