How investors from Sweden in search of ‘passive income’ contributed to blight in Cleveland

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In early October, our media partners at Signal Cleveland received an email from Alice Aveshagen, a reporter at the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.

The paper was working on a podcast about investors in Sweden who said they were talked into a bad bet on Cleveland real estate. Aveshagan and her colleague Daniel Persson Mora were coming to Cleveland in November and were looking for leads on reaching a local property manager.

Signal Cleveland analyzed hundreds of property transactions, pored over local housing court records and documents from a Swedish lawsuit that had been translated into English, examined business records from Ohio and Sweden, reviewed emails to investors, contracts and photos of some of the properties that were sold, spoke with multiple investors, two property managers, the businessman whose company sold the houses to investors, and Clevelanders who lived in the homes and neighborhoods.

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