Historically low interest rates, housing shortages and rising wages have contributed to a sharp rise in prices in the southern Swedish housing market since the turn of the millennium. Between 2000-2010, the prices of tenants rose by 290 percent, while between 2010 and 2019 they rose by 117 percent.
House prices also rose, but not as sharply. Between 2000-2010, the increase was 92 percent, while prices between 2010-2019 increased by 51 percent.
In the last decade, prices in Sörmland rose most, in Katrineholm, by 186 percent, followed by Eskilstuna, which increased by 144 percent.