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Is Stockholm’s House Party Over?
Biggest mortgage bank warns house prices could start falling
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In Sweden’s capital, it’s so difficult to find a place to live that even Spotify is complaining. A protracted period of negative interest rates, coupled with a chronic housing shortage, has pushed property prices to unprecedented heights and families further into debt.
The European Commission is worried and the Swedish government is mulling what to do about it.