With a few months left until the summer season, Christian Austen, a broker at Fastighetsbyrån in Perstorp, wishes he had more holiday homes to sell.
For potential buyers, there is plenty.
- I have a couple of upcoming objects and I am basically called down, he says.
The market is doing well - even without Danes
- We feared that the market would go down now that the Danes and Germans do not enter the country, but that has not happened.
There have been new buying groups, big city people from Helsingborg and Malmö, says Christian Austen.
The buyers have also found their way to Örkelljunga, states Kristoffer Andersson, broker at Länsfast in Örkelljunga.
Here, the prices of holiday homes increased by 17 percent last year.
In the whole of Scania, the corresponding figure was 10 percent, on a par with the rest of the country.
Early start to the season
- The interest continues this year as well.
Normally, the market for holiday homes starts at Easter.
But now we see that the season has already started.
The average price for a summer house in Örkelljunga has been just over SEK 1.1 million over the past twelve months, according to figures from Mäklarstatistik.
Kristoffer Andersson, broker at Länsförsäkringar, meets new customer groups who want to buy a holiday home in Örkelljunga.
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- My colleague put out a property last Friday, a house that can function both as a holiday home and permanent residence on a nice forest plot.
He's completely down.
50 people are already booked for viewing.
The pandemic is what has aroused great interest in detached houses close to nature outside the big cities, Kristoffer Andersson believes.
- People want to go out into the country.
The trend has crept in recent years, but the process has been accelerated by the pandemic.
People have also discovered that it is possible to work from home to a greater extent, which makes us more flexible to settle where we want to live, he says.