What you as a non-Swedish have to think about when it comes to housing in Sweden is that here you count the living room in the description if it doesn't say the specific number as rooms. Since a house on a plot becomes more expensive in price than a chain house, where several houses sit together. Think about what you have to think about in all major cities in Sweden, so the further out from the center itself, the lower the prices. If you take Stockholm, there are certain suburbs that are nicer and where richer people live, so house prices are much more expensive in those areas, let alone less popular areas. If you have a sea view or are close to a lake or the sea, the prices will be higher. This is also the case around Gothenburg and Malmö. Can take my little sister and her partner who live in Malmö, they wanted a bigger apartment, a 3 or four room apartment in central Malmö but the bids were so high. I told my sister to look outside the center of Malmö, there you can get a whole house with land for the same yes even cheaper than an apartment in central Malmö. Now they live in a house that is bigger than the apartments they were looking at, and it was cheaper, and they have a plot of land. So advice, whichever city you are going to look at a house, look a bit outside the center of the city. If you also look at my city Kiruna, at the top of the north, in the city itself you have to pay between 2.5 and 3.5 million for a house. while if you go 4.5 miles outside, you can get a house for between 500,000 and 1 million. Swedish crowns.
@@LivingSwedish I am happy to help and tell you what I know, to make it easier for those who want to move to Sweden and also for you to learn how it works in Sweden. What I forgot to say is that electricity is important and in Sweden is divided into 4 regions for the electricity price North we have region 1 then middle of Sweden region 2 then around Stockholm region 3 and Skåne region 4. Electricity is cheapest in regions 1 and 2, region 3 more expensive and region 4 is the most expensive electricity. So there is a difference of thousands of kroner in electricity costs depending on which region you live in. It should be pointed out that you should not go ahead and buy a solar panel for a private household, it is not profitable for the first 18 years or so.
What you should consider when buying a house or terraced house in Sweden is which heating system the house has. Direct electric heating is extremely expensive with today's electricity prices. And I saw that several of the houses you looked at have direct electric heating. I live in Norrköping, in a house located at one of the most popular areas in town. It is an old area where we have district heating but there are some houses that still have direct electric heating. We had a new neighbors a while ago, they came from a townhouse located in a less pleasant area and were so happy that they found a house here. But the house next door was just one of the houses that still has direct electric heating. They hadn't thought of this so now they are ready to cry when the electricity bill appears. Just an example of what can happen if you don't think about this.
Bonjour, Pouvez-vous me dire à titre indicatif combien coûte le coup d'une facture de chauffage en électricité direct et urbain.. Esque c'est mensuel ? Ou tout les 2 mois ! Merci d'avance pour vôtre réponse.. 🌅🌅🌅🌅🌅🌅
I live in one of Swedens smaller cities, about 4 hours from Stockholm and 2 hours from Gothenburg. Here houses are 3-10 times cheaper than the ones you looked at 🤣
Nice video. I am also planning to buy an apartment or small house near Stockholm. Do I need to have a broker who will help me look for the properties? Where does one start when they are looking to buy? What is process of buying? I am so confused. Thanks
How exciting! You don't need a broker. Best website is Hemnet. Or sign up with a few property websites (which you can also find on Hemnet). They regularly send emails with properties which ultimately end up on Hemnt as far as I know. You often bid for a house or apartment. If you're the highest bidder you will sign the contract which happens shortly after. Because only when you sign the contract you have the place guaranteed.
Thanks for the videos, very well explained. But I would like to know if you know how you can buy a house from abroad, without having a bank account in Sweden or a personal number? Thank you so much
I've heard it's quite hard to do that but I'm sure it's not impossible. Unfortunately, I don't know much about it. I would call up or email a real estate agency such as Fastighetsbyrån.
Sweden is one gorgeous country, its capital is surrounded by a cluster of archipelago’s, just wonderful and enviable. 😍 I loved the Dutch style house with the garden. 😃 Was there a specific reason (work?) you chose Sweden over Germany where you’re from? 🥴
Well, we could have moved to Germany as well but the main reasons we chose Sweden were that we both didn't know the language, for both of us it was a new experience (compared to Germany), the nature is so much more accessible and also the school system is better, IMO.
I like your channel and your videos, really helpful! My family and I are planning to move to Sweden in 8 months aprox. We love countryside, northern Sweden… but I’m very confused, I don’t know how to choose a place like this to live. For example, I’ve reading and investigating about Kiruna, but I’m not able to know if there is a bilingual preschool in this area (English and Swedish). This is really important for us. Can you help me, or give me some advice, please? Thanks so much!!!
Thank you very much! I had a little research and found this website with the different preschools in Kiruna: kiruna.se/utbildning--barnomsorg/forskola-och-barnomsorg/forskolor.html My advice is to contact each of them and ask if they're bilingual. Or, contact Kiruna community on that website and and ask them so you don't have to contact every single kindergarten. I have made very positive experience with communities in Sweden so I'm sure they can help. Good luck!
What do you want to know? You normally buy the right to live in the place, usually apartments and town houses. You have a mortgage on the place but you also pay a community fee. You become a member of a condominium association.
You usually have a mortgage here, yes. If you need a loan from a bank you usually need 15% of the money you borrow. Of course, you can also buy a house cash if you have the money 😉
I'm currently renting an apartment in Båstad, a small beach town in the west coast of Sweden. But I'm expecting to finally buy a property sometime next year (hopefully) 😅
so if you move to sweden i would look at rental to begin with there are multiple advantages to rental also it would depend if you come alone or with an family to 3-4 or above also rental mean you can go over the market witout stress over finding the perfect place for you see rental as temporary while you lern the ropes of sweden laws taxes job ect.ect you normaly cant get an job if you do not have som form of housing hotel wont do you need an adress of resident but i think there are exceptions like if you are offerd an job in sweden( got) before your move to sweden but you will still need that place of resident i think but beenig swedich i am not 100% sure on that
You do know that you can filter out the release forms you don't want to see, right? So if you don't want to see bostadsrätt you don't have to. Also, you filtered for less than six million Norwegian Kronor. 🙂 The two houses in Nacka that you were checking out were both in Fisksätra, which is kind of a problem area, though it's surrounded by super-expensive high-status areas like Saltsjöbaden, Saltsjö-Duvnäs and Solsidan. The second one almost gave it away when they showed pictures of Saltsjöbaden Centrum and not the more nearby Fisksätra Centrum, which is a kind of worn down and depressing shopping center. A few of the houses in Nacka even have a lighthouse (look for Lännerstasundet if you want to find pictures) on their property. I don't think I even want to know how much those places would cost if they were for sale. 😀 Oh, and you seem to have already adopted the typical Stockholm moving pattern, where people typically move closer to or further away from the center, but rarely from one area outside of central Stockholm to another area at the same distance from the city but far from where they currently live. So you'll see people move from Haninge to Solberga but not from Haninge to Hässelby Villastad or from Haninge to Viksjö. Ald others will move from Viksjö to Hässelby or from Hässelby to Viksjö but not to Tyresö or Arninge.
@@LivingSwedish I just realized that I wrote Lännerstasundet when I should have written Baggensstäket though,😀 Also, Baggensstäket is where we stopped the Russian army when they tried to invade Stockholm in 1719.
i would like to know cottage, countryside. if i do not live their often, how much tax, council fee we have to pay? so, i would like to buy a summerhouse, but fear that i have to pay a lot of maintaninance fee
Went trough the same experience recently but for the north... But Sweden overall has been good. I'm also trying to record them and show them to the world. 🌲🌲🦌🦌
As far as I know (also our house) houses here are made of stones and/or concrete. Only the outside/facade is wood. We also have double glazing but that depends on the hosue. Although I think it's common now.
As I think you have noted before. The prices are (usually) just the starting price. Unless it specifically says "acceptpris" where the chances are at least higher that you will be able to buy the home for that price, even though it is still not a gurarantee (!) Yes, it does not really make sense, the process around buying a home in Sweden is mostly absurd. The auction system used is called "Swedish auction" for a reason! I believe we are one of very few places in the world that has an open auctioning system for this. These days you can at least ask for the list of the other bidders on a property so you can verify that they are at least real people. A few years ago all bidders where completely anonymous and you had to have complete trust in the broker that he wasn't fabricating bids to jack up the price for his client. Which of course is 100% the seller since he/she is the one paying the broker. The marketing for brokers always claim that the broker is there to represent both buyer and seller, but since it is the seller paying 100% of the broker fees, that is simply not true. Buyer brokers is simply not a thing in this country, even though that would be the obvious thing to do. Having two brokers representing their clients, doing the negotiating.
Yes, absolutely! Quite weird... At least, at the moment not as many people are bidding because of the crisis. But yes, the price you see is just the starting price so it usually gets higher 😞
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Breaking down the surrounding areas of Stockholm and the property prices made this an incredibly helpful video!!! Thank you!!!
Thanks so much for the feedback! 🥰
What you as a non-Swedish have to think about when it comes to housing in Sweden is that here you count the living room in the description if it doesn't say the specific number as rooms. Since a house on a plot becomes more expensive in price than a chain house, where several houses sit together. Think about what you have to think about in all major cities in Sweden, so the further out from the center itself, the lower the prices. If you take Stockholm, there are certain suburbs that are nicer and where richer people live, so house prices are much more expensive in those areas, let alone less popular areas. If you have a sea view or are close to a lake or the sea, the prices will be higher.
This is also the case around Gothenburg and Malmö.
Can take my little sister and her partner who live in Malmö, they wanted a bigger apartment, a 3 or four room apartment in central Malmö but the bids were so high. I told my sister to look outside the center of Malmö, there you can get a whole house with land for the same yes even cheaper than an apartment in central Malmö. Now they live in a house that is bigger than the apartments they were looking at, and it was cheaper, and they have a plot of land. So advice, whichever city you are going to look at a house, look a bit outside the center of the city. If you also look at my city Kiruna, at the top of the north, in the city itself you have to pay between 2.5 and 3.5 million for a house. while if you go 4.5 miles outside, you can get a house for between 500,000 and 1 million. Swedish crowns.
Absolutely! Great advice 👍
@@LivingSwedish I am happy to help and tell you what I know, to make it easier for those who want to move to Sweden and also for you to learn how it works in Sweden.
What I forgot to say is that electricity is important and in Sweden is divided into 4 regions for the electricity price North we have region 1 then middle of Sweden region 2 then around Stockholm region 3 and Skåne region 4. Electricity is cheapest in regions 1 and 2, region 3 more expensive and region 4 is the most expensive electricity. So there is a difference of thousands of kroner in electricity costs depending on which region you live in.
It should be pointed out that you should not go ahead and buy a solar panel for a private household, it is not profitable for the first 18 years or so.
@@ingvartorma9789 Thank you very much for your comments. They are very helpful!
Thanks for your valuable input
I could watch you all day browsing Hemnet. It was so soothing haha 😅
Hahaha Thanks for watching! 😊
What you should consider when buying a house or terraced house in Sweden is which heating system the house has.
Direct electric heating is extremely expensive with today's electricity prices. And I saw that several of the houses you looked at have direct electric heating.
I live in Norrköping, in a house located at one of the most popular areas in town. It is an old area where we have district heating but there are some houses that still have direct electric heating. We had a new neighbors a while ago, they came from a townhouse located in a less pleasant area and were so happy that they found a house here. But the house next door was just one of the houses that still has direct electric heating. They hadn't thought of this so now they are ready to cry when the electricity bill appears.
Just an example of what can happen if you don't think about this.
Thanks for sharing! There's a lot to consider when buying a house indeed. This is super helpful! :)
Bonjour,
Pouvez-vous me dire à titre indicatif combien coûte le coup d'une facture de chauffage en électricité direct et urbain..
Esque c'est mensuel ?
Ou tout les 2 mois !
Merci d'avance pour vôtre réponse..
🌅🌅🌅🌅🌅🌅
What about in Brevik. Thomas Sewell wants to buy a house in Brevik. He had a close friend there named Anders.
I live in one of Swedens smaller cities, about 4 hours from Stockholm and 2 hours from Gothenburg. Here houses are 3-10 times cheaper than the ones you looked at 🤣
Yeh, it's crazy, isn't it?! I was shocked when I looked at house prices again for this video...
Whereabouts Berish?❤
@@Radicalstories92 Värmland. One of the "regions" of Sweden.
Ну и что можно купить за 100 000 € ,в лесу,метров до 50 и подальше от людей ?
How can I search for commercial properties?
What website do you use to search the houses?
Search for Hemnet on Google. That's the website 🙌
Nice video. I am also planning to buy an apartment or small house near Stockholm. Do I need to have a broker who will help me look for the properties? Where does one start when they are looking to buy? What is process of buying? I am so confused. Thanks
How exciting! You don't need a broker. Best website is Hemnet. Or sign up with a few property websites (which you can also find on Hemnet). They regularly send emails with properties which ultimately end up on Hemnt as far as I know. You often bid for a house or apartment. If you're the highest bidder you will sign the contract which happens shortly after. Because only when you sign the contract you have the place guaranteed.
Thanks for the videos, very well explained. But I would like to know if you know how you can buy a house from abroad, without having a bank account in Sweden or a personal number?
Thank you so much
I've heard it's quite hard to do that but I'm sure it's not impossible. Unfortunately, I don't know much about it. I would call up or email a real estate agency such as Fastighetsbyrån.
@@LivingSwedish Thank you very much for your response and time.
Sweden is one gorgeous country, its capital is surrounded by a cluster of archipelago’s, just wonderful and enviable. 😍 I loved the Dutch style house with the garden. 😃
Was there a specific reason (work?) you chose Sweden over Germany where you’re from? 🥴
Well, we could have moved to Germany as well but the main reasons we chose Sweden were that we both didn't know the language, for both of us it was a new experience (compared to Germany), the nature is so much more accessible and also the school system is better, IMO.
Are "council houses" in the UK synonymous with Section 8 housing in the US?
They serve similar purposes but have different systems in place.
Just wondering if it right time to buy a house close to Goteborg. Krona is down and seems like a buyers market. Do you think it's a right time to buy?
I like your channel and your videos, really helpful! My family and I are planning to move to Sweden in 8 months aprox. We love countryside, northern Sweden… but I’m very confused, I don’t know how to choose a place like this to live. For example, I’ve reading and investigating about Kiruna, but I’m not able to know if there is a bilingual preschool in this area (English and Swedish). This is really important for us. Can you help me, or give me some advice, please? Thanks so much!!!
Thank you very much! I had a little research and found this website with the different preschools in Kiruna: kiruna.se/utbildning--barnomsorg/forskola-och-barnomsorg/forskolor.html My advice is to contact each of them and ask if they're bilingual. Or, contact Kiruna community on that website and and ask them so you don't have to contact every single kindergarten. I have made very positive experience with communities in Sweden so I'm sure they can help. Good luck!
I would like talk about apartment living anyhow Bostadratt works. Do you know bout that?
What do you want to know? You normally buy the right to live in the place, usually apartments and town houses. You have a mortgage on the place but you also pay a community fee. You become a member of a condominium association.
Prices are way more affordable than I expected ..
Yes, it definitely depends on what you compare it to :)
Hello. Please your video very very good I’m so happy. Zaman. From Australia. Sydney
If you buy a house in Sweden do you have to pay it all up front or can you pay it over time, kinda like a mortgage for a house?
You usually have a mortgage here, yes. If you need a loan from a bank you usually need 15% of the money you borrow. Of course, you can also buy a house cash if you have the money 😉
@@LivingSwedish Oh, cool. Thank you. I want to get to Sweden at some point in my life and am doing long term planning
@@Musical_Pigeon How exciting! :)
I'm currently renting an apartment in Båstad, a small beach town in the west coast of Sweden. But I'm expecting to finally buy a property sometime next year (hopefully) 😅
Good luck! It's so exciting to buy a house or an apartment 🤩
so if you move to sweden i would look at rental to begin with there are multiple advantages to rental also it would depend if you come alone or with an family to 3-4 or above also rental mean you can go over the market witout stress over finding the perfect place for you see rental as temporary while you lern the ropes of sweden laws taxes job ect.ect you normaly cant get an job if you do not have som form of housing hotel wont do you need an adress of resident but i think there are exceptions like if you are offerd an job in sweden( got) before your move to sweden but you will still need that place of resident i think but beenig swedich i am not 100% sure on that
Thanks for sharing! Yes, when moving to Sweden I'd also start with renting to explore the different areas. Then I would buy if it's possible.
What web site are you using for home search
www.hemnet.se
You do know that you can filter out the release forms you don't want to see, right? So if you don't want to see bostadsrätt you don't have to. Also, you filtered for less than six million Norwegian Kronor. 🙂
The two houses in Nacka that you were checking out were both in Fisksätra, which is kind of a problem area, though it's surrounded by super-expensive high-status areas like Saltsjöbaden, Saltsjö-Duvnäs and Solsidan. The second one almost gave it away when they showed pictures of Saltsjöbaden Centrum and not the more nearby Fisksätra Centrum, which is a kind of worn down and depressing shopping center. A few of the houses in Nacka even have a lighthouse (look for Lännerstasundet if you want to find pictures) on their property. I don't think I even want to know how much those places would cost if they were for sale. 😀
Oh, and you seem to have already adopted the typical Stockholm moving pattern, where people typically move closer to or further away from the center, but rarely from one area outside of central Stockholm to another area at the same distance from the city but far from where they currently live. So you'll see people move from Haninge to Solberga but not from Haninge to Hässelby Villastad or from Haninge to Viksjö. Ald others will move from Viksjö to Hässelby or from Hässelby to Viksjö but not to Tyresö or Arninge.
So much detail, thank you! I think the Norwegian Krona were wrongly translated from Swedish into English 😆
@@LivingSwedish I just realized that I wrote Lännerstasundet when I should have written Baggensstäket though,😀
Also, Baggensstäket is where we stopped the Russian army when they tried to invade Stockholm in 1719.
Hi I need some help if you live near kth about accommodation please let me know how to do is wise
Unfortunately, I don't live there and are unable to help you. But I wish you the best of luck!
Old house? (Vendelsö). It's 150 years younger than ours 😃
Where do you live in Sweden? Or where do you want to live in Sweden? 🇸🇪
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Buying land in sweden, can grant owner to move to sweden if he he is not from usa , or EU ?
I don’t think buying land or property in Sweden allows you to automatically live here. You will need to apply for a permit to stay here.
thank you!
i would like to know cottage, countryside. if i do not live their often, how much tax, council fee we have to pay? so, i would like to buy a summerhouse, but fear that i have to pay a lot of maintaninance fee
Went trough the same experience recently but for the north... But Sweden overall has been good. I'm also trying to record them and show them to the world. 🌲🌲🦌🦌
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Damn some prices are cheaper than Istanbul but minimal salary in Sweden is x6 higher than Turkiye :d
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I am surprised by Swedish houses, they all seem to be made of wood and have single glazing?
As far as I know (also our house) houses here are made of stones and/or concrete. Only the outside/facade is wood. We also have double glazing but that depends on the hosue. Although I think it's common now.
Did you consider buying a plot of land and having a house built for you?
Ugh, everything is stark white ,zero charm . Its "Swedish charm" has been thrown away 😢💔
When you buy a house you can add your touch :)
The lack of color inside these houses !! Why is everything stark white , everywhere 😒!??
Ah yes, that's very much a Scandinavian minimalist style. But when you buy a house you can do what you want with it :)
How does a black african foreigner own a house in sweden without and haven't been to sweden before
I don't know 😅
As I think you have noted before. The prices are (usually) just the starting price. Unless it specifically says "acceptpris" where the chances are at least higher that you will be able to buy the home for that price, even though it is still not a gurarantee (!) Yes, it does not really make sense, the process around buying a home in Sweden is mostly absurd. The auction system used is called "Swedish auction" for a reason! I believe we are one of very few places in the world that has an open auctioning system for this.
These days you can at least ask for the list of the other bidders on a property so you can verify that they are at least real people. A few years ago all bidders where completely anonymous and you had to have complete trust in the broker that he wasn't fabricating bids to jack up the price for his client. Which of course is 100% the seller since he/she is the one paying the broker. The marketing for brokers always claim that the broker is there to represent both buyer and seller, but since it is the seller paying 100% of the broker fees, that is simply not true. Buyer brokers is simply not a thing in this country, even though that would be the obvious thing to do. Having two brokers representing their clients, doing the negotiating.
Yes, absolutely! Quite weird... At least, at the moment not as many people are bidding because of the crisis. But yes, the price you see is just the starting price so it usually gets higher 😞