Sweden Responds to Worst Housing Slump Since 2008 With Supply

  • Housing indicators now show market is recovering after decline
  • Swedish coalition aims to make housing an election issue
Photographer: Mikael Sjoberg/Bloomberg
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Sweden’s government wants to add supply to a housing market that’s just gone through its biggest price slump in a decade.

The Social Democrat-led ruling coalition is intending to make property construction a key plank of its campaign ahead of the September election, according to Peter Eriksson, the country’s housing minister.