BOSTADSFÖRMEDLINGEN– THIS IS HOW IT WORKS

THE PATH TO A NEW HOMEIf you’re looking for housing in the Stockholm region, you need to search and register your interest with Stockholm’s Housing Agency – Bostadsförmedlingen. Remember the more proactive you are about your search, the greater your chances of being assigned an apartment.

This is how it works:

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JOIN THE QUEUEAnyone who is aged 18+ and who has a Swedish national identification (person-nummer) or coordination number (sam-ordningsnummer) can join the housing queue. It costs SEK 200 per year. You can sign up at bostad.stockholm.se

SEARCH AND REGISTER YOUR INTERESTIt’s up to you to search for and register your interest in the vacant apartments adver-tised on our website. You’ll find available properties listed under Sök bostad (Search properties). The time you spend in the queue will vary and will partly depend on where you want to live.

VIEW AN APARTMENTIf you’ve registered an interest and if you’ve been queueing for longer than other applicants, you’ll be invited to a viewing. It’s important to attend a viewing as many landlords make this a requirement.

ACCEPT OR DECLINEAfter the viewing, you need to decide if you are still interested in the apartment. The easiest way to do this is to go to Mina sidor (My Pages) at bostad.stockholm.se

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SHOW VERIFICATIONIf you have been in the queue for longer than anyone else who expressed an inter-est after the viewing, we will contact you. You will then need to provide verification showing that you meet the landlord’s requirements for the apartment. Remem-ber to have all your documents ready in advance. The landlord’s requirements are stated in the apartment advert.

SIGN THE CONTRACT AND MOVE INOnce you’ve provided verification that you meet the landlord’s requirements, we will present you to the landlord as a tenant. Once the landlord has approved you, you and the landlord will sign the contract. And then it’s time to move in!

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR NEW APARTMENT!We hope you’ll be very happy there! As long as you keep paying the annual fee, you will remain in the housing queue, but you will go to the back of the queue and your new queueing time will start on the date when you got your new apartment.

TIP! If you’re a tenant with a first-hand contract with Stockholm’s municipal housing company, there is an internal exchange queue. Find out more at bostad.stockholm.se

TYPES OF HOUSING

Your circumstances will change throughout your life, as will your housing needs. You can look for different kinds of housing and different contract forms at Bostadsför-medlingen. You’ll find a few examples below. You can read more on our website at bostad.stockholm.se.

For example, if you’re the age between 18 and 25 (sometimes even up to 30), you can apply for a youth housing (ungdomslägenhet), which is often slightly smaller and cheaper to rent. If you’re studying at university, college or you’re in higher vocational education, you can apply for a student apartment (studentbostad). If you’re aged 55 or over, we can provide special apartments adapted to the needs of older people. A short-term contract (korttids kontrakt) offer opportunities for temporary accommodation, while you remain in the housing queue. A ‘Buddy contract’ (kompiskontrakt) means you can share an apartment and the contract with a friend.

ONE YEAR OR TWENTY. HOW LONG DO YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR AN APARTMENT?

Stockholm has a housing shortage, which means you may have to wait before you get an apartment.

How long you have to wait depends on a number of factors, including where you want to live and the kind of rent you can afford. Apartments that have higher rents and are located outside central Stockholm have shorter queueing times. The average queueing time is ten years (2017) and the majority of people get an apartment within eight to twelve years. But there is huge variation. Last year, we arranged contracts for 167 apartments with a queueing time of less than one year and 248 apartments with queueing times over twenty years.

Source: Bostadsförmedlingen i Stockholm AB’s database 2017

QUEUEING TIMES 2017

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PERCENTAGE

The graph shows the length of queueing times for apartments provided via Bostadsförmedlingen in 2017.

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The statistics are for standard tenancies, not contracts for students or young people, retirement apartments or short-term contracts.

MEDELKÖTIDER I REGIONEN 2017

DANDERYD

TÄBY

ÖSTERÅKER

VALLENTUNA

9,7 9,5 BOTKYRKA

9,2Spånga-Tensta

13,2SOLNA

8,4UPPLANDS VÄSBY

5,0SÖDERTÄLJE

SOLLENTUNA

UPPLANDS BRO

10,8Rinkeby-Kista

13,5

11,6 8,5Bromma

10 6,5HUDDINGE

LIDINGÖ

13,9Skarpnäck

11,1Skärholmen

11,8 7,7Farsta

9,9 8,2JÄRFÄLLA

10,5 6,8SUNDBYBERG

10,0Hässelby-Vällingby

EKERÖ

SALEM

11,6 Enskede-Årsta-Vantör

11,9

5,7Vega

12,4 9,4STOCKHOLM

12,8

9,9

Hägersten-Liljeholmen

5,2

9,2Stureby

6,3Sköndal

9,6Solberga

SIGTUNA

Märsta

Älvsjö

3,2 VÄSTERÅS (2018)

Källa: Bostadsförmedlingen i Stockholm AB:s databas 2017 © Stadskartan

TYRESÖ

ÖSTERÅKER

9,6NACKA

8,9 7,4VÄRMDÖ

8,3 6,3HANINGE

11,6

LIDINGÖ

22,6Norrmalm

17,0Södermalm

10,6Norra Djurgårdsstaden

5,7Vega

14,4Kungsholmen

14,4 10,6Östermalm

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Photo: Peter Hoelstad / Agent Molly | 17.06 / 02

ABOUT THE HOUSING QUEUE

• It costs SEK 200 per year to remain in our queue.

• You can join the housing queue even if you don’t live in Stockholm.

• You can join the queue from the day you reach the age of 18.

• You need to have a Swedish national identification (personnummer) or coordination number (sam ord­ningsnummer) in order to register to join the housing queue.

• All vacant apartments are advertised on our website.

Would you like to find out more? Visit our website, where you’ll find all the information you need: bostad.stockholm.se

BOSTADSFÖRMEDLINGEN · A MUNICIPAL COMPANY, CITY OF STOCKHOLMBOSTAD.STOCKHOLM.SE

Bostadsförmedlingen acts as agents for vacant tenancies throughout the Stockholm region.