This year’s rent increases may be the highest in 30 years.
The Tenants’ Association fears this when around a quarter of the year’s negotiations have been completed.
– It is unfair to us who live in such areas, says tenant Mira in Gothenburg.
For the second year in a row, it looks like rent increases are reaching record highs. They can land at around five percent.
High inflation and interest rate increases have driven up costs for property owners, which then pass on to tenants.
– It is clear that it is very tough that there will be such high rent increases, but it is not the 12-17 percent that many property owners demanded at the beginning and that is of course very good for the tenants, says Carl-Johan Bergström, head of negotiations at the tenant association.
Tenant Mira: “It’s unfair”
This year, a record number of rental negotiations have also gone to the rental market committee, which helps to mediate when negotiations have stalled.
Among the 61 cases that have come in are, for example, Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö’s public utilities.
– It is clear that the economic conditions make it difficult to come to an agreement. But now that we see that we are done with almost a quarter of the negotiations and we see what levels are involved, it is clear that we hope that things will loosen up and that you will be able to resolve things locally, says Carl-Johan Bergström.
Mira is a tenant in Gothenburg and she is disappointed by the high figures.
– It is actually unfair to us who live in such areas because there are many pensioners here who cannot cope with such large increases, she says.