Tag: real estate
Bad weather hits high hytte prices
Two unusually cold winters in a row, a late Easter this year and heavy rains this summer have put a damper on sales of...
Norwegians’ most-hated taxes
Heavy taxes tied to their homes and their cars have emerged as the most hated by a majority of Norwegians, according to a new...
Oil fund takes the plunge in Paris
Norwegian newspapers were full of stories on Wednesday detailing how every Norwegian will soon own a little piece of property on the Champs-Élysées. That's...
Oslo’s developing waterfront, in a photo collage
Oslo has been undergoing massive waterfront redevelopment for years, and for better or worse. Some argue the city is being walled in with large...
‘Hytte’ prices hit new highs
The average price of a holiday home (hytte) along the Norwegian coast has jumped 18 percent since last year, reports a survey by TNS...
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 hit new heights
The price of luxury living in Norway broke a new record this week, when news emerged that an affluent buyer had paid NOK 120...
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...
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