Sweden apartment prices rise 5.8% in the year to October 2026
Swedish apartment prices rose 5.8% in the year to October 2026 and central Stockholm 10.0%, raising the deposit a buyer needs for the same flat.
The facts
- Apartment prices across Sweden rose +5.8% in the twelve months to October 2026, to a mean of 49,392 kronor per square metre, Svensk Mäklarstatistik reported on 6 November 2026.
- Central Stockholm led with 10.0% over twelve months and 125,613 kronor per square metre; Greater Stockholm added 7.2% and reached 74,829 kronor.
- Greater Gothenburg rose 5.1% and Greater Malmö 3.6% over the year, to 48,053 and 36,359 kronor per square metre.
- Villas went the other way in the short window, down 0.6%, while holding 4.2% over twelve months at a mean 4,315,000 kronor.
- 17,900 homes changed hands in October, 6% more than a year earlier, split between 11,400 apartments and 6,500 villas, a figure the publisher calls an October record for villas.
- The publisher's "one month" reading compares August to October 2026 with July to September 2026, so it is a rolling three-month window rather than a month-on-month change.
What it means for your money
- Central Stockholm costs 10.0% more than a year ago. The same flat now needs a bigger deposit and a bigger loan.
- Glopra's Swedish benchmark stands at 5,101 US dollars per square metre, and that dollar figure is what a cross-border buyer measures a krona-denominated rise against.
- Owners of a Swedish apartment gained 5.8% in nominal terms over the year; owners of a villa saw short-window softness against 4.2% over twelve months, so the two legs of the same market are no longer moving together.
- Selling is getting faster, which lowers the cost of a mistake: median time to sell over the past six months fell about 10% for apartments and 20% for villas against 2025.
What to watch
- 8 December 2026 at 06:00 is the next release, and it will show whether the apartment-villa split holds.
- Sample size sets the limits here: the apartment index rests on 33,664 sales from August to October 2026, while the mean price uses October sales alone, which makes the level more volatile than the index.
- Statistics Sweden's house-price barometer measures villas, not apartments, so the two Swedish readings answer different questions.
Sources: Svensk Mäklarstatistik https://www.maklarstatistik.se/pressmeddelanden/priserna-pa-bostadsratter-okade-medan-villor-minskade-i-oktober/