How to buy an apartment in Sweden, step by step

We've outlined the steps you need to take and the pitfalls to look out for in this guide for potential buyers.

How to analyse a Swedish housing association’s finances before you buy an apartment

Know your rights: How hot is your apartment in Sweden allowed to be?

Summer house: How to buy your own Swedish ‘sommarstuga’

Buying vs renting in Sweden: Which is best?

Renting in Sweden: How do I know if I’m being charged fairly?

Swedish word of the day: Marknadshyra

EXPLAINED: What do proposed changes to Sweden’s rental laws mean for tenants?

Sweden’s Left Party gives government 48 hours to scrap market rent bid or face no-confidence threat

READERS REVEAL: Five tricks for winning the apartment hunt in Sweden

I’m building my own Swedish summer house – here’s what I’ve learned

What is a ‘kolonilott’ and why do Swedes love them so much?

Swedish property prices reach record highs with double-digit growth

What fees do you need to budget for when selling your Swedish apartment?

What extra fees should I expect when buying an apartment in Sweden?

‘Remarkable’: Swedish property prices soar despite pandemic crunch

How do you beat the stress of the Swedish property bidding war?

Tell us: What are your best tips for buying an apartment in Sweden?

Buying my first apartment in Sweden: How we won the bidding war

How to get tax deductions on household maintenance in Sweden

What will happen to Sweden’s property market in 2021?

Property prices continue to rise in Sweden as 2021 gets off to a hot start

The story behind a 1960s high-rise turned ‘passive house’ in Gothenburg

Quiz: Should you buy or rent your home in Sweden?

Property prices continue to rise in Sweden despite the pandemic

Checklist: Everything you need to do when you move house in Sweden

7 key things to think about before you sell your home in Sweden

Swedish bank cuts discount rate, making it easier to get a mortgage

Record high interest in buying Swedish summer houses

Swedish housing market hits new record: ‘It’s a milestone’

Foreign exchange students lose dibs on earmarked apartments in Sweden

Swedish property prices rose in May – here’s by how much

Record number of apartments for sale in Sweden

How fast are property prices rising in Swedish cities?

REVEALED: These are the most expensive streets in Sweden

‘The smell is unbearable – I expected Sweden to work better than this’

Number of people in ‘insecure’ rentals has doubled in a decade: report

These were the most expensive properties sold in Sweden in 2018

Buying an apartment in Sweden costs less than it did a year ago

There’s a growing number of apartments for sale in Sweden

These are the most expensive addresses in Sweden

Property market in Sweden stable, but the elections may change that: brokers

MAP: The cheapest places to buy a house in Sweden

Here’s how the price of summer houses in Sweden has changed

Apartment prices continue to fall in Sweden

In pictures: You can now buy Greta Garbo’s seaside home

Sweden’s most expensive house sells for 125 million kronor

Thousands of newcomers in Sweden at risk of homelessness

In Pictures: This Swedish farmhouse has been standing since 1738

European Commission urges Sweden to tackle housing crisis

Opinion: ‘Sweden’s housing policy has failed an entire generation’

Here’s what you can get from Sweden’s property market for one million

In pictures: Step inside Greta Garbo’s NYC luxury apartment

Could crowdfunding help solve Sweden’s housing woes?

Is it a good idea to paint your apartment white?

30 of Sweden’s favourite inspirational images of homes

Yes, housing construction in Stockholm is booming

In pictures: Step inside this historic Stockholm apartment

In pictures: 11 ways to get creative with your Christmas

In pictures: How do I create a design theme for my home?

In pictures: Eight ways to make your home ‘mysigt’

In pictures: Seven autumn must-haves for the living room

In pictures: Step inside this futuristic green Malmö home

In Pictures: Look inside this perfect Swedish island home

In pictures: Six questions about Scandinavian style

This is how much it costs to rent an apartment in Sweden

In pictures: Eight Swedish bloggers’ living rooms

In pictures: Eight traditional Swedish tiled stoves

Report: Stockholm is at risk of a housing bubble

In pictures: Gorgeous summer home and bakery in Halland

Swedish beach plot for sale for just one krona

In pictures: Stockholm office turned into mini apartment

Where are property prices rising in Sweden?

Jetties and boathouses: 11 Swedish waterside gems

In pictures: Ten of the most inspiring Swedish homes

In pictures: Recreating your own Nordic style in 8 steps

23 people tricked into renting the same Malmö apartment

In pictures: eight of Sweden’s most colourful homes

In pictures: Decorate your tiny apartment the Swedish way

In pictures: Five top design exhibitions in Stockholm

In pictures: Seven signs you’re on top of Nordic trends

In pictures: Why is Nordic design so hot right now?

In pictures: Are Swedes falling in love with colour at last?

In pictures: How this old Swedish flour mill was revived

In pictures: Scandinavian elegance in 40 square metres

In pictures: Eight cool compact Scandinavian houses

In pictures: Eight stunning Swedish seaside locations

In pictures: Twelve stunning Scandinavian swimming pools

Slow design: How Nordic style can make your life better

11 amazing houses that make you long for summer

Inspiration: 8 of Sweden’s most colourful homes

What word do you use to describe Scandinavian style?

Posh playtime: Inspiration from Swedish kids’ rooms

Swedish house prices rocket faster than anywhere in EU

These ten Swedish kitchens look good enough to eat (in)

Spring fever hits hot Swedish housing market

Sold: Sweden’s most expensive apartment

Hugh Grant plans to tear down new Swedish home

Swede turns one krona church into dream home

Why so many overseas investors are buying property in Sweden

Nordic home tax breaks are most generous in EU

Should more people live on boats in Stockholm?

A studio in Stockholm or a castle in countryside?

Why buy a house when there’s a Swedish island?

Hope for overcharged renters after appeal case

Swedish Airbnb rental properties double in year

Sweden sees summer drop in property prices

Huge Swedish house for sale for just one krona

Gatecrashers fry up Swedish home viewing

Two million Swedes design ‘house of clicks’

Sweden scraps plan for new mortgage rules

Sweden builds future as EU construction falls

One in five flats sold before public viewings

Homeless to ‘skip’ long rental queues in capital

Housing boost plan revealed by coalition

‘Sweden has to act now to solve housing crisis’

Need more space? Check out Sweden’s priciest flat

Four Swedish home design trends for spring

Homeowners fear new repayment rules

Sweden’s key interest rate drops to zero

Eight things to love about renting in Sweden

Where’s the best place to live in Sweden?

Housing could replace Bromma airport

Stockholm is ‘best’ region for well-being

Sweden’s most expensive rental apartment just became available

In Pictures: The Local’s Property of the Week

In Pictures: The Local’s Property of the Week

In Pictures: The Local’s Property of the Week

In Pictures: The Local’s Property of the Week

Riksbank: We must take action on household debt

Berlin pensioners take on Swedish property giant

In Pictures: The Local’s Property of the Week

In Pictures: The Local’s Property of the Week

In Pictures: The Local’s Property of the Week

In Pictures: The Local’s Property of the Week

In Pictures: The Local’s Property of the Week

In Pictures: The Local’s Property of the Week

Moderates promise huge boost to student housing

In Pictures: The Local’s Property of the Week

Report touts solution to Stockholm housing crisis

In Pictures: The Local’s Property of the Week

Report: Hard up Swedes tap parents for flat cash

In Pictures: The Local’s Property of the Week

In Pictures: The Local’s Property of the Week

‘Stockholm’s like a party with a $500 coat check’

In Pictures: The Local’s Property of the Week

On the move: Sweden’s shifting mobility trends

Two-year average wait for rental homes in Sweden

In Pictures: The Local’s Property of the Week

In Pictures: The Local’s Property of the Week

Gallery: The Local’s Property of the Week

Fixed interest rate mortgages back in vogue

Pictures: Property of the Week – Malmö

‘Young Swedes must face reality’: housing survey

How has the coronavirus changed the Swedish housing market?

‘Drunks’ hired to scare off rival flathunters

Pictures: The Local’s Property of the Week

How to make money by renting out your home

Gallery: The Local’s Property of the Week

Pictures: The Local’s Property of the Week

Swedes ratchet up hunt for summer houses

Gallery: The Local’s Property of the Week

Gallery: The Local’s Property of the Week

Pictures: The Local’s Property of the Week

Gallery: The Local’s Property of the Week

Gallery: The Local’s Property of the Week

Gallery: The Local’s Property of the Week

Swedes flock for a peek into blonde blogger’s flat

Swedish landlord demands sex for flat

Gallery: The Local’s Property of the Week

Gallery: The Local’s Property of the Week

Inner-city househunters set sights on suburbs

Gallery: The Local’s Property of the Week

Gallery: The Local’s Property of the Week

‘Market rents won’t solve Sweden’s housing woes’

Housing minister to tame ‘unhelpful’ local leaders

Rent control blamed for housing shortage

Gallery: The Local’s Property of the Week

Gallery: The Local’s Property of the Week

Gallery: The Local’s Property of the Week

Housing market ‘overheating’ in big cities

Gallery: The Local’s Property of the Week

Gallery: The Local’s Property of the Week

Olof Palme’s for-sale row house piques curiosity

Swedish housing policy leaves rich even richer

Gallery: The Local’s Property of the Week

Gallery: The Local’s Property of the Week

Gallery: The Local’s Property of the Week

Gallery: The Local’s Property of the Week

Gallery: The Local’s Property of the Week

Gallery: The Local’s Property of the Week

Stockholm rent controls favour the wealthy: report

Economy losing interest for homeowners

Swedes stuck with hot property

Councillors and call girls

Property: buyers beware

Celebrities pushing up house prices

Kiruna town centre sinking

Home truths: fixed rents threaten new developments

5,000 rental apartments in Stockholm “lost” each year

Charity board “took apartments meant for the poor”

Property market shows signs of cooling

“Thousands blacklisted” in Malmö property scandal

Double salary politician faces investigation

“Two days” to buy commercial property in Sweden

Swedish house prices rising

Swedish house prices stable

Property boom to continue in Sweden

Swedish house prices soar to new high

Stockholm house-hunters turn to British TV show

Property bubbles common in Sweden

Danish bank buys Skandia Mäklarna

Unlock Sweden’s housing market

1,000 children evicted each year

Average family “cannot afford a house”

Stockholm Syndrome: A clean sweep

Priced out of the housing market? Not in Kramfors

Stockholm Syndrome: Nothing private about property

Swedish property tax to EU Court

More women and foreigners among homeless

Sweden sued for property tax rule

TV cameras expose crooked estate agents

Government plans to cut property tax

Swedish residential property market booming

More Swedes ‘plan to buy summer houses’

House prices set to cool off

Alliance agrees to cut property tax

Alliance to abolish property tax

Papers give mixed reaction to Alliance tax plan

Summer house prices shoot up

Officials warn of housing surplus

House prices ‘are cooling off’

Gloomy outlook for Swedish house prices

Alliance divisions over property taxes

Moderates: reforms will not harm homeowners

Stockholm flat as Swedish property prices climb

House prices expected to fall

Landlords ‘can buy out tenants tax free’

Oil billions pumped into Stockholm property

Swedish tenants “could face market rates”

Swedish homebuyers feel the pinch

More Swedes take fixed mortgages

Government to tackle Sweden’s homelessness

Stockholm is hot property

‘Property bubble’ warning over apartment price rises

Swedes save money by staying out of euro

Swedish landlords “avoid letting to immigrants”

House prices ‘not a worry’

State could guarantee first-time mortgages

House prices continue to rise

Swedish house prices continue to rise

Capital gains proposal slammed

Estate agents ‘should face more regulation’

New guarantees for first-time buyers

Flat owners ‘lose out in budget’

Moderates in u-turn on rent controls

Profits fall at SBAB

Sweden ends discrimination against EU apartment buyers

‘Move abroad to escape new house tax’

Renters set to win in 2008

Owner gives house away

Wealth and property taxes officially axed

Surge in complaints against estate agents

Apartment prices keep falling

Estate agents to be forced to tell truth

Households forecast real estate price hike

Bromma airport’s future safe for three more decades

Swedes anticipate rise in housing prices

Swedish island paradise for sale

Immigrants and the young: Left behind by Swedish left?

Sweden opens the doors to its secret spaces

Swedish apartments sold like hot cakes in 2007

Tax dodging estate agents to face the law

House prices ‘will keep falling’

Agency legitimizes toublesome tenant’s apartment ‘theft’

Swedish town: ‘Go north and claim your reward’

Swedish homeowners’ radon concerns rise ahead of new rules

Debts lead to more property repossessions

Home sale duties boost Swedish tax revenues

Housing reform would ‘force 50,000 to move’

Swedish apartment values still slumping

Thousands of rental flats privatized

Do I have to pay tax when I sell my house?

Noise and nudity top Swedish list of neighbour no-nos

Crisis hits Sweden’s housing market

One-third of Swedes want to live in gated communities: study

Owner-occupied flats coming to Sweden

Slump continues for Swedish housing prices

Sweden sees wave of squatter evictions

Swedish town and ski resort for sale

Magazine names Sweden’s ten worst landlords

Swedish property slump rumbles on

Landlords lend helping hand to Stockholm homeless

EU court orders compensation for satellite dish eviction

When worlds collide: Apartment shopping in Sweden and beyond

Apartment prices climb in Stockholm

Sweden to shed 20,000 construction jobs

New Bergman foundation aims to buy filmmaker’s home

Homeless single mothers: Child allowance counts towards rent

Bids rolling in for Ingmar Bergman’s island home

Job losses lead to spike in forced home sales

Swedish court okays higher rent for refugees

H&M mogul buys English country village

Stockholm suburb ranked best place to live in Sweden

Renters in Sweden struggle to make ends meet

Record number of Swedish home listings

Swedish property market at ten-year low

Payment problems plague more Swedish homeowners

Rate concerns shake up Swedish housing market

Burger baron to buy Stockholm’s priciest flat

Rate fears put freeze on Swedish housing market

Swedes want their adult children out of the house

Price freeze to follow 2009 property bonanza

Peak prices for Swedish mountain holiday homes

King’s pal seeks bumper payout for country estate

Rental shortage in large parts of Sweden

Swedish house prices keep rising

‘My rent has been hiked 20 percent – what are my rights?’

Rate rises to hit homeowners

Red-Greens agree on property tax changes

Central Gothenburg ‘castle’ put up for sale

Swedish apartment construction takes off

Swedish apartment prices hit ‘all-time high’

Stockholm house prices place 12th in global study

Swedish firm sets new record property price

‘Lower mortgage interest tax break’: Liberal Party

Swede, 92, tricked into giving away home

Swedish flat prices more than double since 2000

Reinfeldt slams Stockholm rental ‘market’

Reinfeldt under fire over housing comments

Cohousing: it’s not just for hippies anymore

Foreign buyers snapping up Swedish homes

Flats for the needy given to the aristocracy: report

Prime Stockholm property changes hands

Housing minister stymied in Stockholm flat hunt

Housing scam targets Swedish college students

Building of new student flats grinds to a halt

Stockholm parking spots pricier than apartments

Foreign buyers flock to Swedish summer homes

Sweden looks to make subletting flats easier

Government says yes to making subletting easier

Sweden’s ‘priciest’ country manor for sale

Bildt accused of aiding Russia in legal dispute

Swedish property prices climb back to all-time high

Subletting in Sweden set to get more expensive

The Local’s guide to moving in Sweden

Eight-year wait for a home in Stockholm

Riksbank probes mortgage-repayment law

Swedish home prices rise despite slow growth

Borg rejects call for mortgage-repayment law

Sweden’s ten priciest places to live revealed

Stockholm enlists Ikea to ease housing crunch

Stockholm sublets set for ‘dramatic’ rent hike

The Lowdown: Sweden’s new subletting law

Sweden’s average home price at ‘record high’

Swedes’ high debts spark housing bubble fears

Borg: housing market set for 20 years of stagnation

‘Tighten mortgage rules’: housing agency

Sweden’s housing queues ‘getting worse’

Posh Östermalm pushed off top flat-price list

Swede endures 28-year wait for Stockholm flat

Stockholm rents soar after new subletting law

Stockholm flat prices hit new record high

Illegal rentals thrive in Stockholm flat crunch

Young Swedes forced to live with mum and dad

‘Sweden next in line for housing market crash’

Swedish summer homes a hit with foreigners

‘Sweden must avoid long-term housing bubble’: EU

Swedish landlords in for rent slowdown: report

Svennis to sell ‘haunted’ Swedish mansion

Subletting law change boosts housing supply

How to buy a home after getting a job in Sweden

Gallery: The Local’s Property of the Week

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