Sweden house prices rise 3% in the year to October 2026
Swedish house prices rose 3% over twelve months and 1% on the quarter, with an 11% rise in Luleå against a 2% fall in Kungsbacka.
The facts
- Prices of Swedish one- and two-dwelling houses were +3% higher over the twelve months to October 2026 and 1% higher than in the preceding three months, Statistics Sweden reported in its small-house barometer updated on 5 November.
- The percentages measure the purchase-price coefficient, the ratio of the price paid to the property's tax assessment value, which the agency uses to control for differences between the houses sold. The national coefficient rose to 1.39 from 1.37 in the previous period and 1.36 a year earlier.
- The national average price was 4,202 thousand Swedish kronor across 12,856 transactions in the August to October period.
- Greater Stockholm averaged 7,500 thousand kronor over 2,139 transactions and was up 4% on the year. Greater Malmö averaged 5,746 thousand kronor and rose 5%, the strongest of the three metropolitan areas, while Greater Gothenburg rose 1%.
- Municipal spreads are wide: Luleå rose 11% over the year and Helsingborg, Hässleholm and Örnsköldsvik 10% each, while Kungsbacka and Falun fell 2% and Nacka 1%. Nacka still carries the highest average price in the country at 10,291 thousand kronor.
What it means for your money
- Entry is more expensive than a year ago, by 3% nationally and 4% in Greater Stockholm. The rise is modest, but it runs against the buyer.
- Where you buy matters more than the national figure this year. An 11% rise in Luleå against a 2% fall in Kungsbacka is a gap of 13 percentage points inside one country.
- Glopra's data put a two-bedroom Stockholm apartment at 344,870 USD with a monthly rent of 1,547 USD, which is the income the 4% price rise in the metropolitan area has to be earned back against.
What to watch
- The agency's quarterly real estate price index, its headline property price measure, is next published on 3 December 2026. The barometer's three-month windows overlap, so consecutive readings share two of their three months.
- The barometer gives no breakdown by house size or construction year, and its percentages are coefficient changes rather than average-price changes, so they cannot be read as a like-for-like price index for a single property.
Sources: Statistics Sweden https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/statistik-efter-amne/boende-bebyggelse-och-mark/fastigheter/fastighetspriser-och-lagfarter/pong/tabell-och-diagram/kommunstatistik/smahusbarometern/