Tag: housing
Big jump in housing starts
The tempo of residential construction projects keeps rising in Norway, fueled by low interest rates and strong demand for new housing units. State statistics...
Sky-high home prices spark concern
Norway's residential real estate market has never been hotter, report brokers and bankers, and concerns are rising that it may boil over and go...
Housing prices rise once again
Housing prices in Norway have risen 6.6 percent since July 2009, given average sales contracts last month, and that's without speculators boosting the market.
Figures...
Stavanger housing ‘most expensive’
Norway's oil capital of Stavanger, on the west coast, may only be the country's fourth-largest city but it now has emerged as having its...
Housing prices keep on rising
The global finance crisis and falling oil prices haven't put much of a damper on Norway's residential real estate market. The national brokers' association...
Government blocks senior housing
Norway is going to need lots of assisted-living units for seniors as the population ages, but the left-center government doesn't want private ...
Housing prices rise again
Norwegian real estate brokers could report another rise in housing prices, up 1.5 percent on average from March to April.
The brokers' national association (Norges...
Debt worries spur new guidelines
Financial regulators in Norway, worried about rising debt levels, are urging banks to tighten lending procedures. They've sent out new guidelines that will make...
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