Renewal of negotiated rent setting - A path to a sustainable housing market?

Through an interaction between economics, statistics and political science and in close collaboration with the central parties of the rental market, we take on something of the most crucial issue for the social sustainability in Swedish housing: the Swedish rent-setting system and its possibilities för renewal and development.

Its importance, benefit for society and relevance is indicated as well as strengthened by the fact that central representatives of allmännyttan, Fastighetsägarna Sverige and Hyresgästföreningen have jointly decided to support the project and are included as collaborating parties.

More precisely, the project studies two central mechanisms in the Swedish rent-setting system: the local negotiations and methods for estimating residents´ valuations of various housing attributes.

Sub-study 1 aims to provide better knowledge of the local negotiation system through a survey with local negotiators on its guiding principles and practices, as well as how these views vary between type of party one represents and type of local housing market one operates on.

In the sub-study 2, a method is developed and tested, a so-called hypothetical choice experiment, with the aim of studying individuals´ willingness to pay for different housing attributes.

On the basis of sub-study 1 and 2 and together with the parties on the rental market, scenarios and development opportunities for the future rent-setting are formulated in the third sub-study.