Tag: real estate
Housing sales fell but prices stable
Residential real estate activity declined sharply in the week following the government's imposition of Corona containment measures. Numbers released last week show a 36...
Housing market keeps cooling off
Housing prices have tumbled again on a monthly basis, and are now just 2.4 percent higher than they were at this time last year....
Oslo set to refund some property tax
The City of Oslo, which lost a key portion of a lawsuit filed by more than 1,000 property tax payers, is now poised to...
Housing prices slid but market still strong
Prices for residential property in Norway were down an average 1.1 percent in July, but economists don't see any negative trend. Prices rose in...
Real estate tycoon honeymoons at 95
Norway’s 95-year-old real estate investor and hotel tycoon Olav Thon has been on an albeit short honeymoon this summer, after marrying his long-time sweetheart...
Supreme Court hears property tax case
A class action lawsuit against Oslo's property tax system, filed on behalf of 3,400 Oslo residents, made it into the Supreme Court this week....
Tycoon wants to take over Oslo tower
Tryvanns Tower still literally towers over Oslo, but it's been closed and abandoned for the past two years. Now local real estate tycoon Christian...
Røkke’s tower can’t save the seas
Norwegian industrialist Kjell Inge Røkke has been met with thumbs down from political leaders in the Oslo suburb of Bærum, who refused to approve...
Housing prices rose again, sales brisk
January turned out to be anything but a slow month in Norway's housing market. Prices rose, and the number of homes sold broke a...
Housing prices rise in line with salaries
Year-end figures showed that housing prices in Norway rose an average of 2.8 percent in 2018, in line with average wage growth. The figures...
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