Govt urged to cool Norway's property market
Oslo
NORWAY'S biggest political group says the country's housing market is heating up at too fast a pace for policy makers to ignore.
The Labor Party wants the government to consider measures that will help Norway's financial regulator stop a housing bubble forming, Marianne Marthinsen, the party's speaker on the parliamentary finance committee, said in an interview. "The development in prices is moving so fast that there is a chance that it might develop into a bubble," she said.
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