Indicators
Half of Swedish Households See Home Prices Sliding Further
- SEB house price indicator improved slightly in November to -33
- Nordea now also sees home prices falling 20% from peak
Residential apartment buildings on the Sickla Kanal in the Hammarby Sjostad district in Stockholm, Sweden.
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The outlook for Sweden’s housing market remained bleak in November amid this year’s 10% decline in prices from their peak levels, according to the latest data.
House prices in the biggest Nordic country have been forecast to drop as much as 20%, in a sign of what may be to come in other markets where home costs rose sharply during the pandemic. That makes Sweden one of the bellwethers for a global housing cooldown as soaring inflation rips through household budgets and rising borrowing costs begin to bite.