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Smoking bans spread to balconies

A new condominium project in the Oslo suburb of Bærum will ban smoking on balconies and in the garden terraces of those with units on the ground floor. Developers...

Fewer living on Norwegian farms

Around 400,000 people in Norway were registered as living on a farm last year, a decline of 10 percent since 2006. Fully 20 percent...

High-priced home sales doubled

The oil industry downturn still doesn't seem to be having much effect on Norwegian housing prices in the most expensive categories. Brokerage firms report that...

No drastic changes in mortgage requirements

Finance Minister Siv Jensen says there's still reason for concern about Norway's high housing prices and overheated real estate market, but she opted against making...

Home buyers in a ‘terrible situation’

There's something rotten about how Norway's residential real estate market functions, according to a new study that shows how many buyers are subjected to extreme time and...

Housing prices flatten out

After years of soaring real estate prices in Norway, especially in Oslo and Stavanger, it finally was a little less expensive to buy a home...

Housing prices flatten out

Average housing prices rose o.7 percent from February to March, according to figures from real estate brokers released this week. When corrected for seasonal...

More now buying a ‘hytte’ in the city

Tens of thousands of Norwegians have taken off this week to spend the Easter holidays at a "hytte," or holiday home, in the mountains...

Strict new lending rules unwelcome

Real estate brokers, bankers and borrowers alike are not laying out the welcome mat for strict new residential lending rules proposed by Norwegian finance regulators. The new...

Debt levels worry finance minister

Norway's economy doesn't face any crisis, Finance Minister Siv Jensen has said, but she's growing increasingly worried about household debt levels in the country. Ever-rising...
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