Price index for existing dwellings, Q3 2006

Prices of flats increased by 5.1 per cent during the third quarter of 2006, while prices of row houses increased by 2.4 per cent. Prices of detached houses decreased by 0.7 per cent.

Prices up 19.0 per cent in Stavanger, Bergen and Trondheim

From the third quarter of 2005 to the third quarter of 2006, house prices increased the most in Stavanger, Bergen and Trondheim, by 19.0 per cent. Oslo and Bærum had a price growth of 16.2 per cent during the same period.

A total of 15 973 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 6 International comparison. Prices of detached houses. Price change the last quarter and year