Jan Å Berggren is a well known Swedish Real Estate developer who co-founded Jakri AB in 1983. Berggren is best known for his pioneering new urban village project, Jakriborg

Jakriborg

Jakriborg is a housing estate, or new town in Hjärup, Staffanstorp Municipality between Malmö and Lund in Scania, southern Sweden. The area was built in the late 1990s by the real estate firm Jakri AB and has been growing ever since. Jakri AB was founded by two brothers, Jan Berggren and Krister...

 near Lund in South Sweden

South Sweden

South Sweden is a National Area of Sweden. The National Areas are a part of the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics of Sweden.-Geography:South Sweden is situated in the southern part of its country...

 or Skåne County

Skåne County

Skåne County is the southernmost administrative county or län, of Sweden, basically corresponding to the historical province Scania. It borders the counties of Halland, Kronoberg and Blekinge. The seat of residence for the Skåne Governor is the town of Malmö...

. Jan Berggren and his younger brother and partner Krister built Jakri AB initially as a property

Property

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 fund

Collective investment scheme

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. In recent years the brothers have diversified their projects across Scandinavia

Scandinavia

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creating what is now one of South Sweden's most successful family run Property Funds.