Price index for existing dwellings, Q2 2006

Prices of detached houses increased by 6.3 per cent during the second quarter of 2006, while prices of row houses and flats increased by 5.4 and 4.0 per cent respectively.

Prices up 15.9 per cent in Stavanger, Bergen and Trondheim

From the second quarter of 2005 to the second quarter of 2006 house prices increased the most in Stavanger, Bergen and Trondheim, by 15.9 per cent.

House prices in these cities are now 89.7 per cent higher than in the first quarter of 2000. The average price growth for the country as a whole has been 59.9 per cent during the same period.

A total of 18 975 sales are used in the calculation of the price index.

Tables:

• Table 1 House price index. All dwellings. 2000=100
• Table 2 House price index. All dwellings. Seasonally adjusted. 2000=100
• Table 3 House price index. Freeholder. 2000=100
• Table 4 House price index. Housing cooperative. 2000=100
• Table 5 International comparison. Prices of detached houses. Price change the last quarter and year