The matter in summary It has not become easier for nurses to buy a home in Norway, shows a new report. The nurse index for 2024 shows that a single nurse can only buy 2.4 per cent of the houses in Oslo. Nursing student Siril Berg thinks she has to give up her dream of living in Oslo. Today, nurses can buy 31.4 per cent of the available housing in Norway, a slight decrease from last year. There are big differences between the cities in Norway, with improvements in Tromsø and Bodø. Siril Berg thinks she must stay in Kristiansand, where she can buy 47.6 per cent of the houses as a nurse. The summary is made by an AI service from OpenAi. The content is quality assured by news’s journalists before publication – It’s fun to go in and look at housing adverts. But it is also a bit demotivating. It feels very far away. Nursing student Siril Berg is sitting in the kitchen of his dormitory a little outside the center of Kristiansand. Now she rents the dormitory, but in the future she wishes to own her own home. The dream had been to bid in Oslo. But very recent figures from the nurse index show that as a fully qualified nurse she can only buy 2.4 per cent of the houses there. – I actually wanted to do a master’s in Oslo, but it is not realistic when you think about the housing market, she says. Difficult without partners Today, the nurse index for 2024 was published. It shows how large a proportion of sold houses in Norway a single nurse gets financing to buy. It shows no improvement in the housing market for nurses. The nurse index It shows what proportion of homes sold in Norway a single nurse gets financing to buy. If the nurse can buy a high proportion of the homes in an area, house prices in the city are low. If the nurse cannot buy any of the homes in an area, it is problematically expensive. The nursing profession is suitable because the income represents a typically good Norwegian income, and is to a small extent dependent on the economic cycle. In the first half of 2024, the average salary they took as a starting point was NOK 682,980. The nurse index is compiled by Eiendomsverdi AS and published by Eiendom Norge. Today, they can buy 31.4 percent of the available housing in Norway. When Eiendom AS presented its report for last year, the figure was 31.6 per cent. – It is demotivating to study something where you know it will be difficult to buy a house without a partner. You can’t expect everyone to have a partner, says Berg. Nurses are used in the index because they have an income that is relatively common in Norway. Big difference between the cities Analysis and modeling manager Anders Francke at Eiendomsverdi AS says last year brought a slight improvement for the nurses. Analysis and modeling manager Anders Francke at Eiendomsverdi AS Photo: Espen Bierud / news – So far in 2024, the improvement has held up in Norway and most cities. Francke says that the index shows big differences between the cities in Norway. – In Oslo, development is flat. In Tromsø and Bodø there has been a good improvement in the number of homes that nurses can buy, because the price trend has been more moderate there this year, he says. A single nurse can buy one of three houses available in Bergen and Trondheim. In Oslo and the surrounding area, one in fifty remains. The nurse index 2024 What proportion of housing turnover could a single nurse buy in 2024: Oslo: 2.4 per cent Asker/Bærum: 3.6 per cent Follo: 8.2 per cent Romerike: 21.4 per cent Tromsø: 24.0 per cent Stavanger w/ surrounding area: 26.5 percent Drammen w/surroundings: 27.1 percent Tønsberg w/Færder: 27.7 percent Bergen: 30.1 percent Trondheim: 32.2 percent Bodø w/Fauske: 32.8 percent Fredrikstad/Sarpsborg: 42 .5 per cent Kristiansand: 47.6 per cent Hamar w/Stange: 49.6 per cent Ålesund w/Sula 50.3 per cent Porsgrunn/Skien: 61.4 per cent Norway: 31.4 per cent Must stay in Kristiansand Siril Berg believes that the dream of Oslo is so unrealistic that she has to stay in Kristiansand. Siril thinks she will stay in Kristiansand after she finishes her studies. Photo: Espen Bierud / news Fortunately, it is easier to get hold of a home there. As a qualified nurse, Berg can buy 47.6 per cent of the houses. She thinks it’s a shame that nurses don’t get better pay, so that it’s easier to get into the housing market. – It is unfair to nurses. There is so much talk about the important skills I have, and that they want more of us, but then it is so difficult to get accommodation. It is unattractive, she says. Published 13.08.2024, at 10.57
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