Number of residential buildings in Oslo, Norway 2009-2019

More and more residences were being built in the Norwegian capital over the past decade. Despite staying relatively stable, the number of residential buildings in Oslo constantly increased in the period from 2009 to 2019. As of 2019, there were over 72 thousand residential buildings built, compared to approximately 67.4 thousand in 2009. Regarding prices, the monthly price change fluctuated between 2013 and 2019. As of August 2019, the prices of dwellings in Oslo had increased by 1.2 percent since the month before.

How expensive are dwellings in Norwegian cities? 

      Oslo was the most expensive Norwegian city to buy a dwelling in 2019. The average residence price was over 75 thousand Norwegian kroner per square meter that year. The next city in the ranking was the Northern city of Tromsø, where dwellings cost nearly 50 thousand Norwegian kroner per square meter. Trondheim, Bergen and Stavanger followed.

Number of sold dwellings 

      The number of sold dwellings in Norway fluctuated during/over the period from 2015 to 2019. It peaked in 2018, when nearly 9.5 thousand dwellings had been sold. As of 2019, the corresponding figure was around nine thousand dwellings.