Erik Selin
$4.88B
as of 10/04/24
About Erik Selin
Erik Selin is CEO of publicly traded real estate firm Fastighets AB Balder, which he founded in 2005.
Selin skipped college to focus on his stock investments but lost it all in the crash of 1987, before moving on to property trades.
At age 24, Selin convinced a local bank to lend him $2 million to finance a deal for a residential development in ?ngelholm, Sweden.
Today 56% of the real estate held by Balder is residential.
Balder also has 50 hotels, making it one of Sweden's largest hotel owners.
Personal stats
Citizenship
SwedenSource of wealth
Real estateResidence
Göteborg, SwedenMarital status
DivorcedBirth date
05/08/67 (age 57)Self-made
self-madeErik Selin’s fortune is worth
81K
troy ounces of gold
75K
median U.S. household
49K
median U.S. income
0.098%
U.S. credit card volume
0.02%
GDP of the United States
0.014%
United States debt
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Annual ranking
Did you know?
Balder is a partner in a new travel center in Sweden that was supposedly one of the last projects of famed architect Zaha Hadid.
Net worth over time
Real-time ranking
Financial assets
OMX NORDIC STOCKHOLM | SAGA.A-SE
AB Sagax--Class AOMX NORDIC STOCKHOLM | SAGA.B-SE
AB Sagax--Class BOMX NORDIC STOCKHOLM | SAGA.D-SE
AB Sagax--Class DOMX NORDIC STOCKHOLM | BALD.B-SE
Fastighets AB BalderOMX NORDIC STOCKHOLM | HOFI-SE
Hoist FinanceOMX NORDIC STOCKHOLM | KFAST.B-SE
K-Fast HoldingOMX NORDIC STOCKHOLM | SLP.B-SE
Swedish Logistic PropertyOMX NORDIC STOCKHOLM | TFBANK-SE
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