A social democrat member of parliament who has been taking two full-time salaries, claiming money from parliament for a car paid for by his other job and whose children live in apartments renovated at the expense of the union he works for said this week that he had done nothing wrong.
A newspaper has revealed that the largest residential property company in Malmö, MKB, has been systematically discriminating against thousands of would-be tenants on the basis of ethnicity, family ties, psychiatric health and previous relationships.
New figures from both the rented and buying sectors indicate that the property market in Sweden could be cooling off. The waiting lists for rented flats in Stockholm shortened by an average of one year in 2004, whilst the price of flats rose modestly during the past year throughout the country except for Skåne.
Last week's reports of the shrinking rental property market - caused by increasing numbers of rented apartments being sold to private buyers - will have struck a chord with the estimated 100,000 people queuing for an apartment in Stockholm.
It is notoriously difficult to find an apartment to rent in Stockholm - and though they will come as no comfort to families at the bottom of a five-year waiting list, figures released this week by the city council's Office of Research and Statistics showed why.
Want to stick out? Want to blend in? Don't like your husband's surname? Or maybe you just fancy a change. Whatever the reason, increasing numbers of Swedes are applying to change their names. Last year a record 6,060 applications were received by the Swedish Patent and Registration Office (PRV) and this year looks like being just as busy.
Reform of Sweden's byzantine housing market is a slow business. And this week stories of rent controls, a desperate shortage of student housing in the main cities and a record level of borrowing were signs that finding a place to live isn't getting any easier.
A large part of Kiruna town centre is to be "removed and built elsewhere" within the next 30 years, reported Svenska Dagbladet on Wednesday. The railway and the E10 motorway have to be re-routed even sooner.
Celebrities' property demands are pushing up the price for everyone else, according to an article in Monday's Svenska Dagbladet. Prices for houses are rising rapidly, especially at the top end of the market.
Over a million Swedes of working age are living on state handouts, according to figures released on Monday. While that's roughly the same as last year, there has been a significant shift in who is receiving those benefits, with the fastest-rising group of claimants being 25-35 year olds taking early retirement.
In the past five years, prices for houses and apartments have doubled in Gothenburg. In Stockholm, prices have evened off slightly but still the increase is greater in the housing market than for other consumer goods. And according to Sunday's Dagens Nyheter, Swedes are more willing than ever to increase their debt load - fuelling speculation about a bubble in the housing market.
You wait weeks for a new report to pull the rug out from under a worn-out old stereotype and then three come along at once. Apparently 'frugal Swedes' are lousy savers, 'sexy Swedes' are all single, and the typical transvestite is a grey-haired married chap with children.
It's a rich man's world, as Agnetha and Anni-Frid so eloquently put it, and anyone on the hunt for a nice millionaire could do worse than come to Sweden. But once they've found him, they would be well advised to teach him how to spend it.
Planning on leaving the rat race, putting your feet up in your little summer house by the sea, and living off the fruits of your hard-earned pension? Time to think again. This week brought grim news for the pensioners of the future, but anyone already in the autumn of their life can afford to feel a little smug.
With talk of interest rate rises in the air, the papers have been getting agitated about the state of the property market. Aftonbladet reported that property prices in Sweden are higher than they have ever been. A place in central Stockholm will set you back a whopping 33,400 crowns per square metre, and prices in Gothenburg aren't far behind, according to Svenska Dagbladet.
Monday was the last day for submissions of tax declarations, and in time-honoured fashion panic and confusion reigned with traffic chaos in Stockholm as thousands battled to make the deadline.
As was widely predicted, on Thursday the national bank announced a 0.5% cut in interest rates to a record low of just 2%. The banks responded with reductions in their lending rates.
