Swedish housing market fights off tighter rules amid rally
Data suggests regulator's amortisation requirement in June seems to have had only limited impact in cooling market
Stockholm
SWEDISH housing price gains accelerated last month as the red-hot market fought off measures that are forcing homeowners to pay down their mortgages faster.
Apartment prices jumped 3 per cent in September, following a one per cent gain in August and a decline of one per cent in July, according to Svensk Maklarstatistik AB. House prices rose one per cent, after being unchanged in the prior two months, it said in a statement on Friday. Valueguard's Nasdaq OMX Valueguard-KTH Housing Index continued to rise in September, gaining 0.8 per cent, paced by a 1.5 per cent increase in apartment prices.
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