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Housing market
Different forms of tenure
There are 4.2 million residences on the housing market in Sweden today and they can be divided into four different forms of housing tenure. 42 percent of these residences are made up of privately owned houses, 18 percent are cooperatives, 22 percent are rental flats in municipal housing, and 17 percent are private rental flats. Just over a fifth of the Swedish population live in rental flats owned by public housing companies.
New construction, demolition and vacancies
Since the beginning of the 1990s the fluctuations in construction, demolishing and vacancies have been quite dramatic. In the beginning of the 1990s the construction of new dwellings was relatively high, then dropping to its lowest level at the turn of the millennium, when under 2000 dwellings were built. The demolishing of dwellings was most frequent in the late 1990s reaching a peak in 1999 when for a few years more dwellings were being demolished than were being built. Vacancies peaked in the late 1990s at just over 40 000 dwellings, but have since been reduced to between 10 and 15 000 dwellings.
