Tag: real estate

Brokers busy as ‘hytte’ sales boom

With the sun shining brilliantly and most schools closed this week for the annual autumn holidays, thousands of Norwegians have flocked to their cabins...

US Embassy building to be preserved

The US government plans to sell the embassy building it's occupied across from Norway's Royal Palace since 1959, when its new, larger and more...

Oil region’s slump ‘will turn around’

While housing prices are literally going through the roof in most areas of Norway, those hit hard by the oil industry slowdown have seen prices...

Home prices go through the roof

Now even real estate agents are sounding the alarms over Norway's rapidly rising prices for single-family homes and apartments. Figures released on Monday show...

Island property sale may set a record

The owner of a holiday island off Norway's southeast coast has put it up for sale for NOK 60 million (USD 7.3 million). Never...

Property tax bills start rolling in

Norway has long been known as a high-tax country but only now are most residents getting hit with direct assessments on their residential or commercial...

Real estate prices soar to ‘sick’ levels

Housing prices in Norway have never been higher, and now they're so high that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is repeating warnings that debt...

Police raid routs illegal occupants

After years of conflict, Oslo police raided a downtown building and camp set up on the "eco-culturally" zoned city block known as Hausmannskvartal, to forcibly remove around...

Home ownership stronger than ever in Norway

Only 16 percent of all adults living in Norway rent their homes, according to new numbers from state statistics burean SSB (Statistics Norway). The...

Mountains more popular than ever

Norway's annual Easter exodus to the mountains for some late-season skiing is well underway, with hotels, less-luxurious lodges and cabins called hytter drawing hundreds of...
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