Tag: real estate
Prospects bright for Norway’s economy
Norwegian economists agree that New Year prospects are bright for the country's economy in 2019. They predict economic growth of 2 percent, low interest...
Housing prices keep sliding
Norway's real estate brokers' organization (Eiendom Norge) reported another price decline in the housing market on Wednesday, with figures showing prices to be down...
Housing prices are down nationwide
Average prices of both new and used homes fell in Norway last month, another sign that the country's once-red-hot residential real estate market has...
Giant skyscraper plan meets fury
Local opposition is strong to wealthy Norwegian industrialist Kjell Inge Røkke's plans to build a skyscraper at Fornebu in Bærum, west of Oslo. Residents...
DNB raises its mortage rates
Norway's biggest bank, DNB, didn't waste any time in raising interest rates on its home loans. It became the first Norwegian bank on Friday...
Record home sales, but prices stable
Record numbers of homes were sold in Norway in June, but prices were relatively stable compared to both last year and to the month...
Jensen keeps mortgage rules strict
Finance Minister Siv Jensen has decided to extend some strict mortgage rules imposed last year on capital requirements and fewer tax breaks for investors....
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...
‘Hytte’ sales soar as conflicts rise
Never have so many of the once-humble Norwegian mountain cabins called a "hytte" been sold as last year, and sales during the Easter holiday week...
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