"For many households, it is a desperate situation"

In August, prices for both condominiums and villas fell by 2 percent in the country as a whole, compared to July.

In the last three months, the price of condominiums has fallen 8 percent, while house prices have fallen 4 percent.

This is shown by the latest measurements from Svensk Mäklarstatistik.

The rising mortgage rates and skyrocketing electricity prices we've seen in recent months are hitting homeowners particularly hard.

And now many are worried about getting their personal finances together because of rapidly rising prices.

"The cost shock"

The Villaägarna organization has noticed the concern due to the price shock.

- For many households, it is a desperate situation.

We have probably never seen this cost shock before, says Daniel Liljeberg, director of social economics at Villaägarna, and continues:

- People tell us how they are thinking about selling the house, because they realize that they cannot live with the new cost situation.

But shouldn't you have a substantial buffer as a homeowner and expect that costs may increase?

- Of course you have to.

You fix interest rates and fix electricity prices and do everything you can, but when we get electricity bills of SEK 20,000 - 25,000 in individual months, it is very difficult for individual households to prepare.

Even lower housing prices

And many forecasters believe home prices will continue to fall.

Last in the line is the housing index of the brokerage firm Erik Olsson, which shows that visitors to the exhibition have not been so negative in terms of price trends since 2011. As many as 67 percent of the respondents in that survey expect prices to go down in the coming year.