Tag: housing

Hot housing market still scares experts

Norway's high and still-rising housing prices have prompted the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to warn Finance Minister Siv Jensen against loosening up the financing...

Housing prices back on the rise

Housing prices have recorded their strongest growth for the month of April in 10 years, rising an average 1.8 percent over March nationwide. Sale...

No rise in interest rates, for now

Norwegians with big mortgages could breathe another sigh of relief on Thursday, after the country's central bank board refrained once again from raising interest...

Housing market starts year with weak prices

Housing prices slid again during the first month of the new year, sliding 2.2 percent in January on a national average. Real estate brokers'...

Rate firm as krone, housing perk up

Norway's central bank kept its key lending rate unchanged as expected, at its record low level, amidst news that Norway's housing market is stronger...

Oil and krone fuel thousands of jobs

Norway has suddenly found itself enjoying the economic effects of stronger oil prices and its weaker currency, the krone (crown). Just three years after...

Housing prices still scare analysts

Housing prices were down another 1.1 percent in November and it hasn't taken so long to sell a home since the finance crisis in...

New homes designed for divorced couples, students

A socially conscious housing project in Oslo, still under evaluation by local building authorities, aims to help take the financial sting out of divorces...

Housing prices keep sliding, debt rising

State financial authorities at Finanstilsynet report that housing prices are likely to keep falling through 2018 before they start rising again. Prices have fallen...

Scope of Oslo’s housing scandal grows

Nearly NOK 700 million worth of residential real estate purchases by the City of Oslo, for use as housing units for troubled or financially...

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