Rising interest rates and higher inflation meant that the majority of the country's housing associations implemented significant fee increases during the period 2022–24.
The state-owned bank SBAB has, based on the housing site Booli's database of housing associations, reviewed the annual reports and compiled the cost increases.
"We see that the increases were larger between 2023 and 2024 than between 2022 and 2023. There may be several possible explanations for this," says Jennie Leffler, SBAB's housing market expert in a press release.
Among the explanations mentioned is that the associations did not take sufficient account of rising interest and operating costs: Another explanation may be that the housing associations deliberately chose not to raise too much in order not to shock the members, but instead took it step by step.
For 2023, the average fee increase was 6 percent, while it rose to 8.1 percent the following year. Not entirely unexpectedly, it is in metropolitan areas such as Stockholm and Gothenburg where the increases are largest, for example, almost 10 percent in Greater Stockholm in 2024.
