Sweden real estate market — prices, rental yield and trend

• Average price: $5,101 / m²
• Gross rental yield: 4.1%
• 12-month price change (USD): 0.1%
• Net rental yield: 2.87%
• Transaction cost: 2.6%
• Price basis: national average

Residential property in Sweden averages $5,101 per square metre. In dollar terms the market has barely moved over the last twelve months (+0.1%). That makes it the 72nd most expensive of the 264 markets in the set.

What a buyer pays in Sweden

The $5,101 figure is a national average across all residential property types, which flattens a wide spread — the capital typically runs far above it and small towns far below. Buying costs — transfer tax or stamp duty, notary, registration and agency — come to about 2.6% of the price here. On a 100 m² apartment at the average price that is roughly $13,263 on top of the $510,101 purchase price. That is below the 9.6% median across the set, which shortens the time it takes for a purchase to break even. Of that, the transfer tax alone is 1.5–4.3% depending on the buyer and the property; the rest is notary, registration and agency fees.

What it earns

A square metre lets for about $17.4 a month. Against a purchase price of $5,101 per square metre that is 4.1% gross, before tax. Both figures come from the same source and the same period, so you can check the arithmetic yourself. It ranks 231st of 311 markets by gross yield. Rental income is taxed at 19.9–26.6% — the rate is not a single number here. That is the difference between 3% and 3.3% net on the same property. The 2.9% net figure we publish uses 30%. On the way out there is a third tax: a non-resident seller pays 22% on the gain.

How the tax works. Rental income from a private home is capital income taxed at a flat 30% on the surplus after a standard deduction of SEK 40,000 per property per year; non-residents are taxed on Swedish-source income the same way. On gross rents of USD 1,000-3,000 a month (1 USD = 9.904 SEK) that is 19.9-26.6% of gross rent. Sources: Global Property Guide Sweden taxes and costs (last update Sep 2026); PwC Tax Summaries Sweden (capital income 30%, last reviewed 2026-08-11).

How this figure is built

The price figure for Sweden is built from asking prices from listings. It was last refreshed on 2026-10-17. We rate our confidence in this market’s data low — treat the figures as indicative and check them before acting. We recompute every market the same way; a figure that fails our checks is suppressed, not guessed.

Sources: Numbeo Sweden [https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?country=Sweden&displayCurrency=USD]; Eurostat prc_hpi_q RCH_A SE [https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/prc_hpi_q?format=JSON&purchase=TOTAL&unit=RCH_A&sinceTimePeriod=2025-Q3&lang=en&geo=SE]; FX api.frankfurter.dev (2025-10-16, 2026-10-16); GPG taxes and costs [https://www.globalpropertyguide.com/europe/sweden/taxes-and-costs]; PwC [https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/sweden/individual/taxes-on-personal-income]. Snapshot: 2026-10-17.