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Swedish star Lykke Li sells her bohemian chic Stockholm apartment: in pictures

Swedish indie electro pop singer Lykke Li is selling her bohemian chic Stockholm apartment. Step inside to see what a celebrity home looks like in Sweden.

Swedish star Lykke Li sells her bohemian chic Stockholm apartment: in pictures
Lykke Li. Photo: Per Larsson/TT

Singer-songwriter Lykke Li,  whose full name is Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson, is one of Sweden's most famous pop exports with albums 'Youth Novels', 'Wounded Rhymes' and 'I Never Learn'.

Currently based in Los Angeles, she formed the band Liv in 2016, a supergroup consisting of her, Andrew Wyatt, Pontus Winnberg, Björn Yttling and Jeff Bhasker. They released their third single, 'Heaven', in June this year.

The Swedish star's Stockholm bostadsrätt (a type of co-operative home ownership common in Sweden) in the Zinkensdamm area of trendy hipster island Södermalm is now on the market via property agents ESNY, for 3,990,000 kronor (almost $500,000), or 99,750 kronor per square metre.

Described as “Söder bohemian chic,” the two-room apartment measures 40 square metres and is on the top floor of a four-storey building (there is no elevator) built in the late 19th century.

Apartment prices in Stockholm have gone up in recent years, and some experts have warned the capital could be at risk of a housing bubble. The average price of a bostadsrätt in the Södermalm area in the past 12 months was 89,177 kronor per square metre, which is still far less than in many other capital cities.

IN PICTURES: Click here to step inside Lykke Li's Stockholm apartment


The view from the balcony. Photo: Jesper Florbrant/ESNY

RENTING

Rental prices in Norway’s biggest cities continue to rise

The cost of renting in Norway's four largest cities rose overall during the third quarter, with prices up six percent this year, figures from Real Estate Norway show. 

Rental prices in Norway's biggest cities continue to rise

A sharp increase in rent prices in Norway continued throughout the third quarter, figures from Real Estate Norway (Eiendom Norge) released on Tuesday show. 

“Real Estate Norway’s rental housing price statistics show a historically strong rise in rental housing prices in Norway in the third quarter,” Henning Lauridsen, CEO of Real Estate Norway, stated in a report on the latest figures. 

Growth was most robust in Stavanger and Oslo, according to Real Estate Norway. 

“The strong growth in rental prices we have seen in the wake of the pandemic continued in the third quarter, and it is particularly in the Stavanger region and in Oslo that the growth in rental prices is strong,” Lauridsen said. 

Stavanger and nearby Sandnes saw the largest price increases, with the cost of renting there increasing by 4.7 percent during the third quarter. During the same period, rents in Oslo increased by 2.5 percent, while a marginal 0.3 percent rise was recorded in Trondheim. 

While the cost of renting in Norway’s four largest cities overall increased by 2 percent, rental prices in Bergen declined. There, rents fell by 2.5 percent in the third quarter.

Lauridsen said that the increase in rental prices was likely to continue due to several factors. High inflation, interest rates, increased taxes on rental properties and a low supply of homes on the market all contributed to increasing rents. 

However, he did note that the supply of rental homes on the market had increased in Trondheim and Oslo since the summer. 

Lauridsen said that the least well-off financially were being hit hardest by rent rises. Previously, the Norwegian government has informed The Local that it will not introduce a temporary cap on rent increases. 

READ MORE: Norway’s government rules out a temporary rent cap

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