Interest in buying tenant-ownership rights is decreasing for the third month in a row, shows SBAB/Booli's indicator Bomarknadstempen. Above all, it is one-room and two-room apartments that are meeting a lukewarm interest.
Difficult economic times, mortgage rules and amortization requirements have hit first-time buyers, those who usually buy one-room or two-room apartments, particularly hard, says Robert Boije, chief economist at SBAB.
He does not see the Swedish Central Bank's expected cut in the interest rate next week as a potential temperature increase in the housing market.
It is the longer, fixed interest rates that affect housing prices. On the other hand, a cut in the interest rate can have a certain psychological effect on the market, says Robert Boije.
