Tens of thousands of foreign residents in Sweden are being investigated by the Swedish tax authorities over income they receive in their home countries.
House prices are rising at a slower rate and are expected to start dropping in the next quarter, according to state-owned residential mortgage company SBAB.
The price of apartments in Sweden will continue to rise over the next three months, according to statistics from the industry organisation Mäklarstatistik. The forecast comes after a 15 percent increase in prices already this year.
The upturn in Sweden's job market is continuing across most parts of the country, according to new figures from the Swedish Employment Service (AMS). During September there were 56,000 new vacancies - an increase on a scale that has not been seen in Sweden for several decades, said AMS.
Disagreement has broken out among parties in the centre-right Alliance after Moderate Party leader Fredrik Reinfeldt said that he would consider reducing mortgage interest tax relief to finance the Alliance's proposed abolition of property tax.
So you have arrived in Sweden with the Swedish Love of Your Life (or your hopes of finding a blonde bombshell), you have managed to find an apartment and now all you need to successfully start your new life here is a job. But how do you go about finding one in a country where the unemployment rate is officially 6.3% (compared to 5.4% in the UK and 4.6% in the USA), with unofficial estimates even higher?
House prices have begun to level off and real estate agents no longer believe prices will continue to increase as they have been in recent quarters, according to a report done by state-owned loan company SBAB released on Monday.
The heads of some of the Nordic countries' biggest companies had a nice salary bump last year. Some 12 percent of board heads make at least 1 million kronor a year.
Officials at Sweden's National Board of Housing, Building and Planning are anxious at the number of apartments being built in the country. Despite widespread queues for available apartments in the country's cities, they say that there will soon be a surplus of housing.
House prices in Sweden will begin to cool off and household debt will increase more slowly over the next few years, according to a new report by Sweden’s Riksbank.
