Stockholm prices have increased the most nationwide, according to new statistics courtesy of Swedish buy-sell site Blocket.
In the Swedish capital, an average one-room apartment will set a tenant back 6,043 kronor ($941) each month. Gothenburg landlords charge an average 4,375 kronor, with flats in Malmö in the south coming in at 4,265 on average.
Despite the housing shortage across the country, however, the supply has increased since 2012. There are 11 percent more flats advertised on Blocket now than at the same time last year.
There have been a total of 47,500 apartments advertised, although a number of these are likely to be false ads.
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In Stockholm, there have been 8,000 ads placed for one-room apartments this year.
“We believe that the development will continue for the rest of the year, but will then drop off a little,” Robin Suwe, spokesman at Blocket, told the TT news agency.
“We don’t yet see any signs that subletting apartments should be harder because of the higher price brackets. More and more apartments are being rented out thanks to the increased supply,” he added.
Prices have also increased due to a new law, which came into effect on February 1st, which gives apartment owners more flexibility in setting rents for sublets that are more in line with the actual costs of ownership.
TT/The Local/og
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