To add to this, to get a contract via the government run queue for rentals[1]: Average time in queue in the Stockholm region: 8.5 years. Average time in queue

To add to this, to get a contract via the government run queue for rentals[1]: Average time in queue in the Stockholm region: 8.5 years. Average time in queue for central Stockholm: 15 Years. If you don't want to wait that long, you generally have to a) sub-let, which as the example above shows, is very expensive. b) buy something, which in the central areas of Stockholm cost something like 50-80K SEK per square meter. [1] http://www.dn.se/sthlm/lang-bostadsko-i-stockholm/ http://www.dn.se/sthlm/lang-bostadsko-i-stockholm/